Lab Member Updates

Erin Shen received Outstanding Senior Award in NanoEngineering and the Jacobs Department Student Award for Excellence, 2024
Dr. Chen received Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2023
Congratulations to Emmie Yao for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023
Congratulations to Jerry Wu for winning the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, 2023
Congratulations to Jacob Shimelman for winning the NIH F31 Fellowship, 2022
Dr. Chen is elected to the US National Academy of Inventors (2021). Read more
Dr. Chen is elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for his pioneering work in 3D printing, bioprinting and tissue engineering (2021).
Leilani Kwe received the Student of the Year Award, the most prestigious award to graduating seniors in the NanoEngineering Department (2020).
Jeff Alido received NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020).
Jacob Schimelman received Friends of the International Center Fellowship (2020)
Dr. Chen receiving Teacher of the Year award from Dean Pisano

Jacobs School of Engineering Dean Pisano presented the "Teacher of the Year" Award to Dr. Chen.

Chen Lab Undergraduate researchers Summer 2019

The Chen lab hosted several undergraduate researchers in summer 2019.

(From left to right) Luwen Chen (UC San Diego), Tso-Yu Chang (National Tsinghua Univ), Leilani Kwe (UC San Diego), Dr. Chen, Amaris Paramo (Butte Comm College), Sam Figueroa (UC San Diego), Ameen Muhammad (Howard Univ) Dr. Chen,

Jacob Schimelman received the prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. (2018)
Michelle with Sieber Representative
UCSD Friends Scholarship and Institute of Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Graduate Fellowship; Michelle Winning the Millipore Signma Award

Michelle is selected as a Siebel Scholar and selected as a finalist of Life Science Award in 3D Printing by Millipore Sigma"

Former lab member, Prof Leo Han of Drexel University was invited to give a departmental seminar at UC San Diego (May 2017).

In Summer 2017, Dr. Chen received the Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal from ASME for his "seminal contribution to the science and technology of manufacturing processes in the area of 3-D printing, bioprinting and nanomanufacturing".
In Spring 2017, Michelle received a UCSD Friends Scholarship and Institute of Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Graduate Fellowship;
In Spring 2017, Peter received a UCSD Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program (FISP) Graduate Fellowship.
Chen Lab Undergraduate researchers Summer 2016

The Chen lab hosted 7 undergraduate students researchers in the summer of 2016.

Congratulations to Michelle Ma for winning the Interdisciplinary Research Award at UC San Diego and winning an Outstanding Presentation Award in the Student and Young Investigator oral presentation competition during the 2015 TERMIS World Congress in Boston.

Dr. Chen was honored with Edward Nagy Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) for his significant achievement in 3D bioprinting.

Wei Zhu was awarded 2nd Prize in the Poster Session of the Nature Conference for Genomic Technologies and Biomaterials for Understanding Diseases (June 23-24, 2014). The conference was organized by journals Nature and Nature Biotechnology.

Our cell engineering work has been selected to show in the San Diego International Airport (Terminal 2 Hallway).

Dr. Chen was invited to talk about bioprinting with KPCC's Crawford Family Forum, Southern California Public Radio's in-person content platform. KPCC is the largest NPR affiliate in Southern California. This talk show is for KPCC's science series, NEXT: Science-People-Tomorrow (10/2013) Read more

The Chen Lab recently received two grants, one from NIH and another from NSF for stem cell engineering (9/2013)

Dr. Chen talked to 300 UCSD alumni about 3D bioprinting for personalized medicine. (5/2013)