Dr. Hossein Tavana, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of 13 professors recognized by Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) as a 2014 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.
He will present a paper on his biphasic tumor spheroid microtechnology for anti-cancer drug testing at the BMES conference held in San Antonio Oct. 22-25.
Co-authors of the paper include doctoral students Ehsan Atefi and Stephanie Lemmo, biomedical engineering undergraduate student Darcy Fyffe and Gary D. Luker from the University of Michigan.