Congratulations to both Kevin Wang and Robin Kim for receiving the competitive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Great work on your applications!

Congratulations to Zeynep Orucu, who will be joining the PhD program in Chemical Engineering at MIT this fall!

Indranil Joshi accepted a position at Regeneron as a Senior Scientist. Congratulations Indranil, you will be missed!

Kevin Wang is joining our group as an undergraduate researcher. He is a sophomore majoring in both chemical engineering and biomedical engineering, interested in transport phenomena in biology. Welcome Kevin!

Congratulations to our recent graduates! Uriahe DeVore and Nikunj Bende have received the Master's of Science in Chemical Engineering, and Vishwa Maharajan received the Master's of Science in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering. Excited to see what you do next!

Dr. Sevenler traveled with Drs. Susan Shea and Daphne Wui Yarn Chan to NAMRU San Antonio to present to and meet with DARPA RBC Factory program leadership, subject matter experts, and other performers.

Awesome article by Lauren Smith in our department about Vishwa's trajectory as a scholar and scientist. Well done Vishwa!

Great to see Amber highlighted in this article from our department showcasing her research.

We are grateful to receive a sponsored research award from Pitt BioForge at the intersection of microscale complex fluid dynamics and gene therapy manufacturing.

Excited to welcome to the group postdoctoral fellow Suryavarshini Sundar! Surya recently received her PhD from the University of Toronto, where she studied microscale mass transport dynamics and phase transitions in emulsions for drug encapsulation in the laboratory of Arun Ramachandran. 

Dr. Sevenler is presenting at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston.

The group welcomes four first-year chemical engineering PhD students Kacie Carrier, Edward Onochie, Jee In Park, and Julianne Finn.

We are grateful to receive support from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate the mechanics of cell membrane disruption and repair. Read more about the project here.

Zeynep Orucu is joining our group this fall as an undergraduate CIT Honors scholars researcher. Zeynep is a rising senior majoring in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Welcome Zeynep!

Welcome the lab Indranil Joshi! Indranil is joining as a postdoctoral fellow. He recently received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he worked with Professor Vinay Abhyankar on microfluidic systems to deposit collagen with controlled anisotropy.

A warm welcome to Neslihan Çilek, who is joining the group as a postdoctoral fellow! Neslihan received her PhD in 2024 from Koç University, where she studied red blood cell stiffness in health and disease in the laboratory of professor Özlem Yalçın. Most recently, she was a postdoc studying lipid sorting in red cell membranes with Professor Huanghe Yang at Duke.

We are grateful to be leading a DARPA project focused on red blood cell engineering. Read more about the project here.

Dr. Sevenler gave a seminar at the Experimental Pathology Division of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Welcome to Defne Elbeyli, a rising senior in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. Defne is visiting our lab this summer to study the rheology of biomolecular complex fluids.

Congratulations and welcome to Audrey China--she received the CHESS fellowship to conduct paid summer research in our lab. Welcome to the group Audrey!

Ethnan presented at the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh.

Dr. Sevenler gave a seminar at the Pitt-CMU Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology graduate program.

Amber Lo was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study mechanoporation for immune cell engineering at BTEL. Congrats Amber!

Congratulations to Ethnan for his abstract acceptance to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research! He will present his work developing new fabrication methods for microfluidic devices.

A big welcome to Amber Lo, who is joining the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Amber is a sophomore in chemical engineering at CMU interested in problems at the interface of immunology, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Welcome Amber!

Excited to announce Nikunj Bende is joining the lab! Nikunj is in the Chemical Engineering Master's program and will work on developing computational simulations of non-Newtonian and complex fluids. Welcome Nikunj!

Very happy to announce Uriahe DeVore is joining our lab! Uriahe is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at CMU. Uriahe graduated from Penn State and has a background in materials and analytical methods in pharmaceutical engineering. Welcome Uriahe!

Excited to share that Anna Witte is joining our lab! Anna is a PhD student in chemical engineering at CMU. Anna graduated from Duquesne University with a double major in Chemistry and Mathematics. Welcome Anna!

Dr. Sevenler presented at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Dr. Sevenler presented at microTAS 2024 in Montreal.

Welcome Ethnan Pedro! Ethnan is a sophomore in chemical engineering at CMU selected for the competitive HURAY Scholar program. His research is focused on hybrid fabrication technologies for microfluidic devices. Contratulations and welcome Ethnan!

The BTEL is officially open!