News
June 2024
Congratulations Morrhyssey!
Morrhyssey Benz is award the 2024 Biochemistry Achievement Award from the Chemistry Department!
Congratulations Alycia!
Alycia Galindo is awarded the Best PhD Student Presentation for the Knight Campus Bioengineering Seminar Series!
Congratulations Alyssa!
Alyssa Chi is awarded the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
May 2024
Congratulations Jenna!
Congratulations to Jenna Khachatourian on winning an award for her oral presentation at the 2024 Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Spring Symposium!
Jonathan Named Cameron Innovation Fellow
Jonathan Dorogin is deemed a Cameron Innovation Fellow after winning an award through the Oregon Innovation Challenge!
Congratulations Payton!
Congratulations to Payton Jefferis for being awarded the VPRI Fellowship for summer research!
Congratulations Caroline!
Congratulations to Caroline Foskett for being awarded the University of Oregon SPUR summer fellowship!
Congratulations Armaan!
Congratulations to Armaan Hajar for accepting an internship at Intel!
April 2024
David Awarded NSF GRFP
David Frey is awarded the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation!
Justin Featured in Oregon Quarterly
Justin is featured in the Oregon Quarterly for his collaborative work and with the College of Business through an Oregon Innovation Challenge award!
Congratulations Jonathan!
Jonathan Dorogin is named to the 2024 CAS Future Leaders Top 100 program list!
January 2024
2024 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars
Two lab members are announced as part of the 2024 KCUS cohort! Congratulations to Alayna and Maddy!
December 2023
Congratulations Justin!
Congratulations to Justin Svendsen for winning the end-of-year Knight Campus Research Collaboration Award!
May 2023
Congratulations Juan!
Juan Garcia is awarded the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Undergraduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations Maddy!
Maddy Ford is awarded the VPRI Undergraduate Research fellowship!
January 2023
MTF Biologics Award
The lab receives an Extramural Research Grant from MTF Biologics! Read more about the award here!
2023 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars
Three lab members are announced as part of the 2023 KCUS cohort! Congratulations to Morrhyssey, Payton, and Jenna!
December 2022
NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Hettiaratchi is awarded the prestigious CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation. Check out more in the article featured on the Knight Campus website!
November 2022
Congratulations Jonathan!
Jonathan is awarded the prestigious NSERC PGS-D fellowship!
July 2022
NIH R35 MIRA, Baxter, and Department of Defense Awards
The lab receives three new awards! This funding comes from the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, and Donald and Delia Baxter Foundation. You can here more about all three new awards here!
Congratulations Jonathan!
Jonathan wins a travel award to the 2022 TERMIS Americas conference in Toronto!
June 2022
Congratulations Morrhyssey and Maddy!
Congratulations to both Morrhyssey and Maddy for each receiving a University of Oregon SPUR summer fellowship!
Congratulations Jonathan!
Congratulations to Jonathan for his advancement to bioengineering Ph.D. candidate!
May 2022
Congratulations Henry!
Congratulations to Henry for successfully defending his senior thesis and winning the Science Frontiers Thesis Award from the Honors College!
Congratulations Ireland!
Congratulations to Ireland for successfully defending her senior thesis!
Congratulations Simon!
Congratulations to Simon for successfully defending his senior thesis!
January 2022
Congratulations Lily!
Congratulations to Lily for being named a Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar! She will be working on developing hyaluronic acid hydrogels for protein delivery.
Congratulations Henry!
Congratulations to Henry Hochstatter for winning an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Mini-grant! This funding will support his senior thesis project on developing affinity binding partners for controlled protein delivery.
December 2021
Our lab is featured with the Hosseinzadeh and Plesa labs on the Knight Campus website
Our research neighborhood is featured on the Knight Campus website for recent NIH grants awarded to our lab, the Plesa lab, and the Hosseinzadeh lab. We're grateful to work alongside such amazing researchers in the Knight Campus's unique research neighborhood setup! You can read more about all of our labs in this feature story.
Congratulations Yan!
Congratulations to Yan for winning the Knight Campus's Diversity Award for his outstanding contributions and exceptional commitment to enhancing diversity and inclusion in our community!
Congratulations Henry!
Congratulations to Henry Hochstatter for winning an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Mini-grant! This funding will support his senior thesis project on developing affinity binding partners for controlled protein delivery.
November 2021
Hettiaratchi Lab members win awards at the Oregon Bioengineering Symposium!
Several Hettiaratchi Lab members won awards for their presentations at the 3rd annual Oregon Bioengineering Symposium! Congratulations to John O'Hara-Smith who won first place for his flash talk, Ireland John who won second place for her flash talk, and Henry Hochstatter who won first place for his poster!
October 2021
NIBIB R21 Trailblazer Award - Our Lab's First NIH Funding!
The lab receives an R21 Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering! This $602,000, 3-year award will fund the lab's work in using directed evolution to identify novel binding partners for affinity-controlled protein release. You can here more about this new award here!
Welcome Chandler!
We're thrilled to welcome our new lab manager Chandler Asnes! Chandler will provide support to a variety of projects in the lab.
September 2021
Dr. Hettiaratchi wins a Faculty Research Mentor Award!
Dr. Hettiaratchi wins a Faculty Research Mentor Award from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement! Thanks to our undergrad researchers for the nomination!
Welcome Yan Carlos Pacheco!
We are excited to welcome Yan Carlos Pacheco, our newest bioengineering graduate student, to the lab! Yan joins us from the University of Florida where he recently completed a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Yan is co-advised by Dr. Nick Willett and will be working on biomaterials for bone repair.
Welcome Lily and Simon!
We're excited to welcome two new undergraduate researchers to the lab: Lily Mozipo and Simon Oh. Lily will be working with Veronica on hydrogel chemistry, and Simon will be working with John on affinity binding partners.
July 2021
The Knight Campus Receives a Second $500 Million Gift from Phil and Penny Knight
See more details and the video of the official announcement here! This gift will fund the next phase of the new campus, enabling further expansion of bioengineering and applied scientific research at the University of Oregon, including training additional students, hiring new faculty members, and a second building.
June 2021
Congratulations John!
Congratulations to John O'Hara-Smith for being awarded a T32 fellowship through the Molecular Biology and Biophysics Training Program!
Welcome Veronica and John!
We're so excited to welcome Veronica Spaulding (Chemistry) and John O'Hara-Smith (Institute of Molecular Biology) as the newest graduate students in the Hettiaratchi Lab! They bring their unique expertise in chemistry and biology to our interdisciplinary work.
Congratulations Henry!
Congratulations to Henry Hochstatter for being granted a University of Oregon SPUR summer fellowship!
Congratulations Ireland!
Ireland Johnson is featured on the Knight Campus website as a Maybelle Clark Macdonald Scholar!
April 2021
Spring is here!
We welcome Veronica Spaulding and Ethan Kimmett as new graduate rotation students in the lab!
March 2021
Medical Research Foundation New Investigator Award
The lab receives a Medical Research Foundation New Investigator Award to develop a biomaterial to support re-vascularization of damaged tissues!
Congratulations Hons!
Congratulations to Hons Rajabzadeh for winning an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Mini-grant! This funding will support his senior thesis project on developing hyaluronic acid hydrogels for neuro-modulation.
January 2021
The Hettiaratchi Lab is 1 year old!
We published our first review paper, led by graduate student Jonathan Dorogin, in the 2021 Emerging Investigators issue of Biomaterials Science.
We welcome rotation students Andres Guerrero and Wyatt Parks from the department of chemistry and biochemistry to the lab!
Congratulations Jonathan and Ireland!
Congratulations to Ireland Johnson for being named a Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar! This award will fund a full year of Ireland's research on biomaterials for bone regeneration in the Hettiaratchi Lab.
Graduate student Jonathan Dorogin is featured on the website for the new UO-OSU Bioengineering Graduate Program.
September 2020
The Hettiaratchi Lab moves into the new Knight Campus building
September was an exciting month for the Hettiaratchi Lab! The lab moves into the new Knight Campus building! We're very quickly getting set up to do science in our new space.
We welcome Jonathan Dorogin, our first graduate student in Bioengineering, and John O'Hara Smith, rotating graduate student from the Department of Biology! We also welcome undergraduate researcher Henry Hochstatter from the Clark Honors College, who is majoring in human physiology.
August 2020
Altered enzyme offers hope for spinal injury and stroke
Our new paper on re-engineering an enzyme to degrade the glial scar following stroke and spinal cord injury is published in Science Advances!
You can find the complete story in Around the O.
July 2020
Congratulations Ireland and Annie!
Congratulations to Ireland Johnson and her mentor Annie Gilbert for winning the Peter O'Day Fellowship in Biological Sciences!
Ireland's project will focus on improving the versatility of demineralized bone matrix as a treatment for bone injury.
June 2020
The lab receives a Collins Medical Trust grant!
The Hettiaratchi Lab receives a grant from the Collins Medical Trust to develop a biomaterial strategy to improve protein delivery to large bone fractures!
We're setting up in our temporary space
It's starting to look more like a real lab! We've been unpacking boxes and getting ready to get back to work.
March 2020
First shipment of equipment arrives in the lab!
We welcome rotation student, Dillon Willis, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and undergraduates, Branden Henry, Hons Rajabzadeh, and Ireland Johnson to the lab!
The lab may be closed, but we're still receiving orders! Here's all the boxes have that arrived so far with new equipment to set up.
January 2020
First shipment of equipment arrives in the lab!
The lab officially opens its doors!
The Hettiaratchi Lab receives a UO-OHSU Collaborative Seed Grant to develop vascularized and innervated bone grafts with Dr. Luiz Bertassoni. We're looking forward to starting this collaboration!
Our new paper on heparin-based biomaterials for protein delivery to repair large bone defects in rats is out in Science Advances. Check out the story in Around the O!November 2019
Oregon Bioengineering Symposium
Marian presents at the inaugural Oregon Bioengineering Symposium at Oregon State University.