Assistant Professor at PurdueBME. Leading a biomaterials and musculoskeletal wound healing labhttps://bsky.app/profile/thqazi.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thqazi.bsky.social/post/3lfe64wyw2k2pHot off the press, the lab's latest work on high aspect ratio microgels for granular hydrogel formation and cell delivery is just published in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c02102?articleRef=control). Work co-led by undergraduate student Dean Stornello and postdoc Jun Kim.10 Jan 2025 02:40 +0000at://did:plc:e3aikk5oxvo7e772obyqxonu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfe64wyw2k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/thqazi.bsky.social/post/3lfe5rztxus2pCongrats to all the CMBE 2025 graduate travel awardees and especially Qazi lab PhD student Tuba Marjan! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jan 2025 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:e3aikk5oxvo7e772obyqxonu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfe5rztxus2phttps://bsky.app/profile/thqazi.bsky.social/post/3kxb24mqeso2nI'm honored to receive the R35 MIRA award from the NIH. Grateful to NIGMS and the reviewers for their enthusiasm about our ideas and supporting a new PI/lab. This $1.9 million award will enable us to design biomaterial platforms to study cell-matrix interactions in the context of wound healing!14 Jul 2024 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:e3aikk5oxvo7e772obyqxonu/app.bsky.feed.post/3kxb24mqeso2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/thqazi.bsky.social/post/3kbswa27l2c2hHad a great #BMES2023 meeting in Seattle. Very proud of my undergraduate students Ellie Tanner and Nikki Kulkarni for an outstanding job presenting their research posters.15 Oct 2023 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:e3aikk5oxvo7e772obyqxonu/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbswa27l2c2h