2025-10-16
Hypothesis Fund Award to Study Aging in Brain and Heart Cells
Prof. Zeinab Jahed received a Hypothesis Fund grant to study mechanisms of aging in non dividing brain and heart cells. The project uses lab developed nanopillar as a tool to induce and probe transient nuclear membrane ruptures in neurons and cardiomyocytes, enabling quantitative analysis of nuclear damage, repair, and age related cellular dysfunction.
2025-09-19
Keivan Rahmani Receives 2026 Siebel Scholars Award
Keivan Rahmani, a PhD candidate in the Jahed Lab, was selected as a 2026 Siebel Scholar in recognition of his academic excellence and leadership. His research integrates artificial intelligence, nanoelectronics, and electrophysiology to enable intelligent in cell electrophysiology and non invasive reconstruction of intracellular activity in cardiac and neural systems.
2025-06-24
Shivani Shukla Receives 2024–2025 Shunichi Usami Ph.D. Thesis Design Award
Congratulations to Shivani Shukla for receiving the prestigious 2024–2025 Shunichi Usami Ph.D. Thesis Design Award! She completed her thesis under the guidance of Professors Zeinah Jahed and Gert Cauwenberghs, titled “Multiscale Intracellular-like Recording Using Nanopillar Electrode Arrays.”
2025-02-07
Celebrating Keivan’s Accomplishment
Congratulations to Keivan for successfully passing his Nanoengineering Literature Review Exam!
2025-01-31
Celebrating Our Lab’s First PhD Milestone
We are thrilled to announce that Shivani has successfully defended her PhD in Bioengineering—the first from our lab to achieve this remarkable milestone. Her dissertation, “Supra- and Sub-threshold Intracellular-like Recording Using Nanopillar Electrode Arrays,” focuses on capturing and interpreting subcellular electrical signals to reveal how single cells adapt, communicate, and respond to their environment. Congratulations to Shivani for passing her PhD defense!
2024-12-18
Highlights from ASCB #CellBio2024
Our lab recently participated in the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) #CellBio2024 conference in San Diego. Our team—Keivan (Photo 1), Dhivya (Photo 2), Anum Tahir (Photo 3), and Shivani Shukla—delivered oral and poster presentations on our latest research. The event offered valuable opportunities for idea-sharing, feedback, and new collaborations, and we look forward to building on these discussions.
