🌟 The Annabi Lab is proud to celebrate Dr. Ronak Afshari!

Dr. Afshari has been selected as a 2025 Nominee for the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, a campus-wide recognition honoring exceptional scholarly achievement.

This nomination highlights her outstanding contributions in chemical and biomolecular engineering, her innovative research in advanced biomaterials, and her leadership within our lab and across interdisciplinary collaborations.

We are deeply grateful for the dedication of our postdoctoral scholars and excited for all that lies ahead.

Thank you to the UCLA Division of Graduate Education for this recognition.

🌟Congratulations to Professor Nasim Annabi!

We are excited to share that Professor Nasim Annabi has been named to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate, recognizing researchers whose publications rank among the top 1% worldwide for scientific influence.

This prestigious honor highlights Professor Annabi’s impactful contributions to tissue engineering and biomedical engineering. We are incredibly proud to celebrate this achievement within our lab and the broader UCLA Engineering community. (News page: 9 UCLA Engineering Professors Named to 2025 List of World’s Most Influential Researchers | UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering)

Congratulations, Dr. Annabi! 🎉

🎉 Congratulations to Our Lab Members on Their Recent Publications!

We are thrilled to share exciting news about the outstanding accomplishments of several members of our research group!

🔬 Yuting Zheng has recently published four impactful original research articles in leading journals, highlighting her innovative PhD work in ocular adhesive drug delivery systems. These publications highlight significant progress in designing mucoadhesive nanomaterials for treating ocular inflammation, infection, and oxidative stress-related damage. Huge thanks to our amazing collaborators Dr. Reza Dana and Dr. Pawan Singh for their invaluable support and guidance throughout these projects! 👏

• Acta Biomaterialia (Mucoadhesive micellar eyedrops for the treatment of ocular inflammation – ScienceDirect)
  
• Journal of Controlled Release (Naturally derived mucoadhesive nanosuspension for treatment of multiple staged ocular infections – ScienceDirect) 

• ACS Nano (Mucoadhesive Tannic Acid-Cross-Linked Nanogels for Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging and Enhanced Ocular Therapeutic Delivery | ACS Nano)

• Advanced Functional Materials (Engineering Drug‐Eluting Ocular Bioadhesive “OcuTAPE” via Tannic Acid‐Mediated Nanoparticle Bridging – Zheng – Advanced Functional Materials – Wiley Online Library) 

Her contributions represent a significant advancement in the development of biomaterials for targeted ophthalmic therapies. Congratulations, Yuting!

📚 Zhanpeng (Jim) Liu and Tess De Maeseneer have also made exceptional contributions to the field by publishing two review articles:

• Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Harnessing carbon nanomaterials for reactive oxygen species regulation: Insights into generation, scavenging, and sensing – ScienceDirect)

• Advanced Materials Technologies (Advanced Fabrication Techniques to Engineer Cell‐Laden Multilayered Hollow Tubular Structures – De Maeseneer – Advanced Materials Technologies – Wiley Online Library) 

Their reviews provide comprehensive insights into emerging strategies for biomaterial-based regulation of reactive oxygen species and multilayer hollow tubular tissue engineering.

👏 Please join us in congratulating all the authors on these impressive achievements!