April 4th, 2024-Dr. Buffone was recognized as a Young Faculty Innovator at the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC).
March 5th, 2024-Congratulations to Alex Goodwin, a junior undergraduate in the Cellular Motion Lab, for being accepted into the CEMB Undergraduate Summer Program at UPenn this summer! Great work Alex!
January 25th, 2024-The Buffone lab is thrilled to be awarded a New Jersey Health Foundation Grant to further our research into precision editing of the cancer glycocalyx! Thanks to NJHF for the support and see the link here for the project press release!
January 17th, 2024-New Year, New Members! The Buffone Lab welcomes Daniella Delgado and Seejal Padhi as undergrads who joined the lab for independent study this semester!
September 1st, 2023-With the new semester, we welcome new students! Welcome to Zeinab Amoabediny and Subham Guin who have joined as Ph.D. students and Namma Biju who has joined as an undergraduate researcher!
June 29th, 2023-Congrats to the first Buffone Lab Ph.D. student- Issa Funsho Habeeb- for passing his qualifying exam with flying colors!!! Great work Habeeb!
May 22nd, 2023-The Spring 2023 semester is in the books and summer is in the air in NJ! Look for exciting things to come from the Buffone Lab.
January 17th, 2023-As the Spring 2023 semester starts, we have many exciting things going on in the Buffone Lab. We are finally up and running in our lab space! Prof. Buffone is teaching Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Habibul Islam is joining us as a Ph.D. Student. Welcome Habibul!!!
November 29th, 2022- Prof. Buffone now has a joint appointment in the Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at NJIT in addition to his appoitnment in Biomedical Engineering. Any Chemical and Materials Engineering Students interested in research opportunites otr grad school should reach out to Prof. Buffone.
November 4th, 2022- Prof. Buffone has been accepted as an Affiliate Member of the Center for Engineering Mechanobiology (CEMB). We have projects in the lab about the mechanical cues guiding upstream migration and the effects of mechanics on cancer progression. To learn more about mechanobiology research or about the CEMB Mission, see the link.
October 12-15th, 2022- Prof. Buffone will be chairing two sessions and presenting the labs research at the BMES 2022 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX! Please reach out if you will be attending as we still have open Ph.D. positions for next year!
September 1st, 2022-Issa Funsho Habeeb Joins the Buffone Lab as our first Ph.D. Student. Welcome Habbeb!
May 2nd, 2022-Exicting News for the Buffone lab! we received our notice of award for our R01 from NIGMS with Prof. Hammer @ UPenn and Prof. Burkardt @ CHOP. In this grant, the Buffone lab hopes to understand the ciritcal signals guiding the upstream migration in neutrophils!
Spring 2022- Prof. Buffone Teaches Biological Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering
January 2022- Prof. Buffone Joins the Biomedical Engineering Department at NJIT and starts the Cellular Motion Laboratory.