12/2025
- Congratulations to Heewon for winning a Biophysical Society travel award!
11/2025
- Welcome Megan & Matthew to the Han lab’s microfluidics subgroup!
- Welcome Josue to the Han lab’s spatial transcriptomics subgroup!
10/2025
- Group Bonding: Corn Maze!
- Congratulations to Ella on completing LitSem!
09/2025
- Welcome Juhwan to the Han lab’s microfluidics subgroup!
07/2025
- Congratulations to Sungjong on completing his thesis defense!
06/2025
- Congratulation on Ella being selected as a NIH CBI trainee
04/2025
- Group photos in Japan House
01/2025
- Qianlu passed a qualifying exam. Congratulations!
11/2024
- Fun group activity! ICE SKATING
- Welcome Ella to the Han lab’s microfluidics subgroup!
04/2024
- Qianlu got a Neuroscience Special Recognition Award. Congratulations!
03/2024
- Our spot-based sub-pixel stitching paper is out now. Congrats Seokjin, Alex, and Juyeon!
- Welcome Van, our new postdoc, to the microfluidics subgroup!
- Our robust synthesis method for quantum dot ligands is published. Congrats Juyeon, Joon, and Alex!
12/2023
- Hooding ceremony. Congrats Alex, Thomas, and Wenyang!
11/2023
- Congratulations to Wenyang on completing his thesis defense!
10/2023
- Thomas completed his defense. Congratulations Dr. Thomas!
- Alex completed his defense. Congratulations!!!
08/2023
- NIH equipment funding secured for multimodal spatial-omics platform!
- Awarded NIH R21 (NHGRI) for ultra-high-throughput spatial transcriptomics (w/ Prof. Zhao).
- Congrats to Thomas on his Physical Chemistry dissertation award & seminar!
04/2023
- Prof. Han keynote at AWSOM (Apr 27–28).
- Ryan completed his thesis defense. Congratulations Dr. Miller!
03/2023
- Congrats to Seungwook on his summer undergraduate scholarship!
01/2023
- Featured: “Hee-Sun Han leading Spatial Omics Initiative at Illinois” – Read more.
11/2022
- Marisa passed her prelim and is now a PhD candidate. Congrats!
09/2022
- JuYeon joined Millikin University as Assistant Professor!
- Welcome first-years Farah, Jin, and Yaxin!
- Secured ~$2 M NIH MIRA for multiscale imaging toolkit.
08/2022
- Ryan published on antioxidant release in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
06/2022
- Wenyang published “Droplet Microfluidics for High-Resolution Virology” (ACS Anal. Chem.).
- Outreach at Next Gen STEAM Studio – photos.
- Prof. Han awarded Amy L. Devine Award for student learning!
05/2022
- Thomas published double-emulsion droplet study (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces).
02/2022
- Wenyang’s first paper on inertial microfluidics (ACS Anal. Chem.)!
10/2021
- Lab attended MicroTAS hybrid conference in Palm Springs, CA.
08/2021
- Summer symposium: Juyeon Best Productivity; Thomas Best Presentation – photos.
- Congrats Wenyang on PhD candidacy!
- Congrats Joon on faculty position in Korea!
07/2021
- CSL Behring funding for multiplexed biomarker detection secured!
06/2021
- Prof. Han invited to ECS meeting on QD precursor design.
- Welcome Calvin Doty to the lab!
- Congrats Marisa on CBI training grant!
03/2021
- Prof. Han talk on microfluidics at Pittcon 2021.
02/2021
- Prof. Han session chair at SLAS2021 & finalist for Innovation Award.
- Prof. Han won Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award.
01/2021
- Welcome Sungjong Lee, Jack Hovey, and Starwing Chen!
12/2020
- Invited seminar at NE Complex Fluid Meeting; Biology seminar at SNU.
11/2020
- Welcome Marisa Asadian!
10/2020
- Seminar in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue.
09/2020
- Welcome Giselle to the group!
08/2020
- Congratulations to Joon on his ACS Nano & Nature Comm articles!
06/2020
- Thomas’s Lab on a Chip cover; filed QD precursor patent.
05/2020
- Prof. Han awarded seed grant from Cancer Center at Illinois – details.
03/2020
- Farewell Arun Jayaraman to Georgia Tech!
- Pittcon 2020: presentations by Joon, Juyeon, Thomas, Alex, Ding & Wenyang.
02/2020
- Alex received the UIUC Chemistry Travel Grant!
01/2020
- Welcome Ryan Miller to the lab!
11/2019
- Invited seminar in ChemE at Virginia Tech.
09/2019
- Lab attended Turkey Run Conference – poster presentations!
08/2019
- Invited lecture at US-Korea Conference; welcome Andrew Dobria!
06/2019
- Filed bead-based diagnostic patent with Bashir group!
03/2019
- Invited seminar at Beckman Institute.
12/2018
- Welcome Wenyang Jing to the lab!
11/2018
- Turkey Run keynote & posters; seminar at Pitt’s MMBG.
10/2018
- Welcome Hanyang Zhao to the lab!
07/2018
- Welcome postdoc JuYeon Lee!
05/2018
- Lab construction complete! See photos.