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Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Lab 
About us
Our group develop advanced biofabrication technologies such as organ-on-chip models and 3D bioprinting for disease modeling, drug screening and injury repair, we use these novel tools to study fibrosis-related diseases such as the cause and therapy of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and the effect of fibrotic tumor microenvironment on cancer immunotherapy.
News
    • Feburary 2021, Our work on Fast Stereolithography Printing of Large-Scale Biocompatible Hydrogel Models is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials. This work is featured by a number of news outlets including NHLBI and UB news . bioRxiv free version here
    • August 2020, Zhao lab received NIH R33 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to develop an inflammation-induced fibrosis tissue model to study the cause of pulmonary firbosis and to develop anti-fibrotic therapies. !
    • Oct 17, 2019, Dr. Zhao received the 2019 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award at the BMES Annual Meeting! !
    • May 7, 2019, Our microclot array elastometry work is featured on Nature Communications Editor's Highlights!
    • May 3, 2019, Our work on microclot array elastometry to measure clot biomechanics is published in Nature Communications!
    • August 2018, Our work on fibrotic microtissue chips is featured on NIBIB website!
    • May 2018, Our work on fibrotic microtissue chips is featured by news outlets including UB News, Medical Research Council (UK), Science Daily, Technology networks, Medical News, etc.
    • May 2018, Our work on thermal sensing glass slide is featured by news outlets including UB News, Phys.org, Science Daily, The Engineer, etc.
    • April 2018, Our paper on Fibrotic microtissue array to predict anti-fibrosis drug efficacy is accepted for publication in Nature Communications!
    • April 2018, Our paper in collabration with Dr. Feng's group (UPenn) on Exceptional Point Engineered Glass Slide for Microscopic Thermal Mapping is accepted for publication in Nature Communications!
    • August 2016, Our paper on Lung microtissue array to screen the fibrogenic potential of carbon nanotubes is published in Scientific Reports.
    • September 2015, Zhao lab received prestigious NIH R01 award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop human fibrotic microtissue chips for screening of anti-fibrotic therapies.
    • May 2015, Zhao lab received Innovative Micro-Programs Accelerating Collaboration in Themes (IMPACT) Fund from the University at Buffalo to develop stereolithography 3D printing of human organ on a chip.
    • July 2014, Zhao lab received Clinical and Translational Pilot Studies Fund from Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center to develop human fibrotic microtissue chips for screening of anti-fibrotic therapies.