October 2023: We’d like to give a warm welcome to our new lab members, Linqi and Leyla! We can’t wait to work with you.
August 2023: Congrats to Kehinde on passing his TPE! Looking forward to your future works.
May 2023: Congratulations to our PI, Professor Deepak. He has been promoted to full Professor of Biomedical Engineering with Tenure. Very well deserved!
May 2023: Anjali has successfully defended and been awarded her PhD! Many congratulations to a job well done, and we’ll miss her in the lab. She will be working for Immunetrics starting this summer.
April 2023: Congrats to Abhinav on his new position at Eli Lilly. He will be greatly missed.
Feb 2023: Congrats to Olamide for receiving both the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship and the Keystone Symposia scholarship! Two well-deserved awards for your amazing work in the lab.
Feb 2023: Warm congratulations to Anjali for receiving the competitive AACR-Bristol Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award!
Nov 2022: Congrats Anjali for receiving the well-deserved Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund scholarship!
Sept 2022: Many Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja and the D Nagrath lab for their amazing work on the publication in Nature Metabolism! This seminal work was featured by the University of Michigan News!
Aug 2022: Heartiest Congratulations to Minal and Fulei for passing their qualifying exams with flying colors and proceeding to candidacy! We also warmly congratulate Kehinde for passing the Doctoral Candidacy Exam and Ajay for passing the Thesis Proposal Exam! We are excited to see the amazing works you all are going to do!
May 2022: Congratulations to the D Nagrath lab for publishing two amazing reviews 1,2 in the Trends series by Cell Press!
Jan 2022: Congratulations to Srinadh Choppara for receiving the 2022 Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Research Fellowship Award. Well deserved!
Oct 2021: Congratulations to Olamide Animasahun, Abhinav Achreja and the D Nagrath Lab for their publication in Science Translational Medicine in collaboration with the Venneti lab
June 2021: Congratulations to Olamide Animasahun, Abhinav Achreja, Jin Heon Jeon and the D Nagrath Lab for their publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering in collaboration with the Moon lab.
March 2021: Congratulations to Ajay Shankaran, he is one of the very few awardees of the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program by National Science Foundation (NSF). Great job Ajay!, we are so proud of you.
Sept 2020: We are proud and happy to announce that, Lifeng Yang, an alumni of the lab has accepted a faculty position at Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS . We can’t wait to see the great job he will be doing over there.
Sept 2020: Congratulations to Frank Weinberg for joining UIC Chicago as an Assistant Professor (Starting February 2021). He will be continuing his novel research there on lung microbiome
July 2020: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja and the D Nagrath Lab for their publication in Nature Communications in collaboration with Dr. Samuel C. Mok lab. at MD Anderson Cancer Center
July 2020: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja and the D Nagrath Lab for their publication in Nature Communications in collaboration with Dr. Samuel C. Mok lab. at MD Anderson Cancer Center
July 2020: Russell E. Ericksen and Weiping Han, in their latest Nature News & Views article titled “Give and take: competition for BCAAs in the tumour microenvironment”, analyzed Zhu et al. recently published Nature Metabolism paper.
July 2020: Congratulations to Ziwen Zhu and D Nagrath Lab for featuring on University of Michigan Health Blog based on their recent paper published in Nature Metabolism.
July 2020: Congratulations to Ziwen Zhu, Abhinav Achreja, Noah Meurs, Olamide Animasahun, Anjali Mittal and D Nagrath Lab for their publication in Nature Metabolism.
January 2020: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja, Anjali Mittal and D Nagrath Lab for co-authoring a Nature Communication paper with Prof. Mala Shanmugam Lab.
January 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Praveen Kumar for his new position as Research Scientist with the University of Maryland Metabolomics Core! We wish him all the best for his future.
December 2019: Metabolic Flux Analysis in Eukaryotic Cells: Methods and Protocols, a book edited by Professor Deepak Nagrath was published in Springer Protocols.
August 2019: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja, Anjali Mittal, Noah Meurs, Ziwen Zhu, Frank Weinberg, and the Nagrath Lab for their publication in Cell Metabolism in collaboration with Dr. Soto-Gutierrez at the University of Pittsburgh. National Geographic
July 2018: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja and the Nagrath Lab for being awarded the U-M Precision Health Scholars Award. The lab is looking forward to our affiliation with the U-M Precision Health Program. Press Release
April 2018: Dr. Deepak Nagrath joins editorial board of Cell Stress, a new journal that has put together an outstanding Editorial Board comprising the most competent scientists within their area of specialty, including five Nobel Prize laureates and over 30 members of different National Academies of Science around the world.
April 2018: Dr. Deepak Nagrath presented Keynote talk at Stony Brook Cancer Center’s annual symposium.
January 2018: Fight against diabetes! A budding collaboration between Dr. Lucy Hinder and Nagrath lab awarded seed funding in the Diabetes Challenge hosted by the Biointerfaces Institute. Congratulations to both parties!
December 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Zhao and Dr. Achreja along with their collaborators from Instituto Superiore di Sanità on publishing their review paper in BBA Reviews on Cancer.
November 2017: We are honored to be featured in University of Michigan Newsletter for “Identifying New Targets in Cancer Metabolism and Treatment”.
October 2017: We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Baddour and her collaborators from MD Anderson Cancer Center for publishing their work in Nature Communications!
September 2017: Signaling pathway describing the effects of tumor nutrient utilization on ovarian cancer progression discovered by Dr. Lifeng Yang and his colleagues in the Nagrath group, is now featured in the exRNA Research Portal and WikiPathways!
August 2017: Follow the Nagrath Lab on Twitter @DNagrathLab
August 2017: The Nagrath Lab congratulates Bahar Salimian Rizi and Abhinav Achreja for publishing their review in Trends in Cancer
July 2017: Nagrath Lab is proud of Hongyun Zhao who won prestigious eLife Travel grant.
April 2017: The Nagrath lab members attend the AACR Annual Meeting, where Hongyun Zhao and Abhinav Achreja present their posters.
April 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Bahar Salimian for her new position at Agilent Technologies, Inc. We wish her the best for her newest endeavor!
March 2017: Hongyun Zhao and Abhinav Achreja present their posters at the Keystone Symposia on Tumor Metabolism in Whistler, Canada.
January 2017: Congratulations to Joelle Baddour, Abhinav Achreja, Lifeng Yang and Presenjit Day along with the Nagrath and DePinho labs for publishing their closely collaborative work in Nature!
January 2017: We welcome Lucy Pinheiro to the Nagrath lab.
January 2017: Congratulations to Hongyun Zhao and Abhinav Achreja for publication of their collaborative experimental and computational platform in Metabolic Engineering’s special issue on Tumor Metabolism.
January 2017: Nagrath Lab moves to University of Michigan as a part of the Biomedical Engineering Department and the multidisciplinary consortium, Biointerfaces Institute
December 2016: We wish Joelle Baddour the best for her future endeavors as she ventures into the industry with XTuit Pharmaceuticals.
December 2016: Stay tuned! Our recent papers have been accepted in Nature and Nature Communications…more on them soon.
November 2016: In collaboration with Dr. Xiongbin Lu our lab published in Nature Communications. We are all excited about the findings.
November 2016: We welcome Ziwen Zhu in Nagrath lab.
November 2016: A big congrats to Dr. Joelle Baddour, Dr. Hongyun Zhao and Dr. Abhinav Achreja. They all performed well in their final thesis defense and now have made our group proud.
October 2016: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for publishing his study in Cell Metabolism in the special issue on Cancer Metabolism. There was an associated commentary in the same issue by Dr. Karen Vousden.
April 2016: Congratulations to Deepak for receiving the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the Chemical Engineering Students of 2016
April 2016: Our lab is proud of Lifeng Yang. He did a great job and defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Yang. We will still see him around since he will be postdoc in our lab.
February 2016: Latest study from Dr. Nagrath’s lab uncovering the role of tumor microenvironment-derived exosomes in supplying nutrients to cancer cells has been featured in Nature, ScienceDaily & many other news websites.
February 2016: Hongyun Zhao published her first manuscript and that too in eLife. Big Congratulations. A commentary from Josh nicely described her research.
January 2016 : Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for being awarded Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Student 2016.
October 2015: Our lab is proud of Dr. Bahar Salimian. She did a great job and defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Salimian-Rizi.
January 2015: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang and our collaborator Dr. Tyler Moss for being awarded the 2014 BRC Collaborative Shared Prize for their high-impact publication: “Metabolic shifts toward glutamine regulates tumor growth, invasion and bioenergetics in ovarian cancer” Molecular Systems Biology, 2014; 10: 728
December 2014: Latest study from Dr. Nagrath’s lab explaining the role of abdominal stem cells in ovarian cancer growth and metastasis has been featured in Drug Discovery & Devpt, Medical Xpress, R&D and Health Canal.
November 2014: Congratulations to Bahar Salimian for publishing her manuscript in Cancer Research.
September 2014: Congratulations to Joelle Baddour and Abhinav Achreja for completing their thesis proposals.
May 2014: Latest study from Dr. Nagrath’s lab linking glutamine ratio and ovarian cancer invasiveness has been featured in ASCO Post, Medical Xpress, Science Daily, News Medical, Hispanic Business, Eureka, Science Codex, P&T Community, Counsel & Heal, Kopalnia Wiedzy and more.
May 2014: Congratulations to Lifeng for publishing his manuscript in Molecular Systems Biology.
April 2014: Congratulations to Prof. Deepak Nagrath for receiving the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the Chemical Engineering Students of 2014
April 2014: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for being awarded the Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship, an honor awarded to only five graduate students from Rice University each year for showing outstanding achievement and promise.
February 2014: Latest study from Dr. Fox’s and Dr. Nagrath’s labs could help patients awaiting liver transplant. Article featured in Newsroom America, Science Daily, Bioscience Techonology, RedOrbit, Medical Xpress, Bionews Texas and MedIndia
December 2013: Congratulations to Christine Caneba for successfully defending her PhD Thesis. She currently holds a Post Doctorate position at University of Wisconsin, Madison. We wish her the very best for her future endeavors
August 2013: Congratulations to the Nagrath Research group for being granted a patent for designing “Synthetic Biological Circuits Using Optimality and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics”
August 2013: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang on being awarded the Riki Kobayashi Fellowship Award in Chemical Engineering for the best Ph.D. thesis proposal of 2012-2013
May 2013: Congratulations to Prof. Deepak Nagrath for receiving the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the Chemical Engineering Students of 2013
May 2013: Congratulations to Prof. Nagrath’s lab and Prof. Frank Tittel’s lab (ELEC, Rice University) for receiving the Hamill Innovations Award
May 2013: Congratulations to Joelle Baddour and Abhinav Achreja for passing their qualifying exams.
March 2013: Congratulations to Abhinav Achreja on being awarded the Isotec’s Travel Scholarship for attendance of the 6th annual MMPC course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research in Little Rock, AR
February 2013: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for being awarded the 2012 IBB Travel Grant!
January 2013: We welcome our newest lab members: Joelle Baddour and Abhinav Achreja, first year chemical engineering graduate students!
September 2012: Congratulations to Lifeng Yang for passing his Thesis proposal.
August 2012: Deepak awarded John and Ann Doerr Foundation award for cancer research
August 2012: Congratulations to Bahar Salimian Rizi for passing her Thesis proposal.
August 2012: Deepak is invited to join the editorial board of Organogenesis Journal.
August 2012: Congratulations to Christine for publishing her manuscript in American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.
July 2012: Congratulations to Lifeng for publishing his first manuscript with collaborators at MD Anderson.
July 2012: Congratulations to Nadege for publishing her manuscript in BBA Bioenergetics.
June 2012: We welcome several summer students in our lab. Niharika, Saket, Keerthana, Mia, Jennifer, and Cheryl are having great experience learning about metabolic engineering of human diseases.
June 2012: Our lab welcomes Jordan Harrell who is a visiting MS student from Rice Bioengineering.
May 2012: Congratulations to Lisa for getting admission in medical school at University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston. Congratulations to Delisa for getting admission into “Semester at Sea” program.
April 2012: Deepak chosen as the Favorite CHBE Professor Award by the chemical engineering students of 2012!
April 2012: Nagrath Lab congratulates Aaron Damm for successfully defending his MS thesis. Aaron is still deciding where to join (Du Pont, Flow and few more…).
February 2012: Congratulations to current undergraduate in the lab, Lisa Pabst, on getting accepted to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine!
Congratulations goes to former lab member, Syed Asad Hussein, on his acceptance to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Medicine!
December 2011: We are excited to welcome first year chemical engineering graduate student Hongyun Zhao as she joins our lab.
October 2011: On Sept 23, 2011, the paper “Optimality and thermodynamics determine the evolution of transcriptional regulatory networks” was accepted to the journal Molecular Biosystems, on which Dr. Nagrath shared equal contribution with the first author.
August 2011: Congratulations to Lifeng, Bahar, and Aaron on passing their qualifier exams and becoming PhD candidates in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department!
December 2010: Dr. Nagrath’s article in the journal “Tissue Engineering Part A” entitled “Three dimensional primary hepatocyte culture in synthetic self-assembling peptide hydrogel” is among the list of 20 of the most cited articles from 2008-2009. http://www.liebertpub.com/whatsnew.aspx?id=53
December 2010: Dr. Nagrath has joined to the editorial board of journal “Journal of Biosensor and Bioelectronics”. http://www.omicsonline.org/EditorialboardJBSBE.php
November 2010: Congratulations to Christine Caneba for receiving 2010 Edgar O’Rear Travel Grant.
November 2010: We welcome our newest lab members: Aaron Damm, Lifeng Yang, Bahar Salimian, first year chemical engineering graduate students!
July 2010: Dr. Nagrath and Dr. Wong (BME, CUNY) publish book chapter entitled Liver Tissue Engineering in Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications: A Review of the Past and Future Trends
July 2010: Congratulations to Professor Nagrath’s lab and Professor Grande-Allen’s lab (Bioengineering, Rice) for receiving the Hamill Innovations Award
July 2010: Dr. Nagrath and Dr. Wong (BME, CUNY) publish book chapter entitled Liver Tissue Engineering in Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications: A Review of the Past and Future Trends
May 2010: Congratulations to new group member Christine Caneba (Bioengineering, II year) on joining the group.
May 2010: Professor Deepak Nagrath’s paper Soft Constraints-Based Multiobjective Framework for Flux Balance Analysis is accepted for publication in the Metabolic Engineering Journal.
March 2010: Professor Deepak Nagrath’s research in adipocytes and discovery of natural extracellular matrix has been featured in several science-related websites.