Welcome to BioLines Laboratory

Open Positions

We have an opening for a Research Technician Position & Postdoctoral Position!

Oct. 2017

Dan Huh is the recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant for Placenta-on-a-chip Research!

Nov. 2020

Dan Huh and his team receive a $8.3 million grant from BARDA for Lung-on-a-chip Research!

February 2018

Our eye-on-a-chip study has been featured by National Science Foundation!

August 2019

Our eye-on-a-chip has been published in Nature Medicine and is featured here!

June 2019

Our Organoids-on-a-chip Science Review is out and is featured at Penn Today!

April 2019

BIOLines Laboratory's journey towards space is featured at Penn Today

November 2018

Dan Huh and BIOLines Laboratory win the 2018 Lush Science Prize

February 2018

Our placental drug transport-on-a-chip study has been featured here

Jan 2018

Our placental drug transport-on-a-chip study has been selected as the cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials

Oct. 2017

Dan Huh is the recipient of the Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award from Analytical Chemistry and the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS)

July 2017

Dan Huh and Scott Worthen (CHOP) have been selected to receive the NIH-CASIS Chips in Space Grant

June 2017

Dan Huh is the recipient of the $1 million Technology Impact Award from the Cancer Research Institute

March 2017

Dan Huh received the John J. Ryan Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

July 2016

Our laboratory has been featured in the Pennsylvania Gazette with Dan Huh on the cover

July 2016

Dan Huh is the recipient of the Analytical Chemistry 2016 Young Innovator Award

May 2016

Cassidy's placenta-on-a-chip is out

April 2016

Megan Farrell has been selected for the NIH F32 Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award

Dec. 2015

Our eye-on-a-chip work has been featured on the Penn Homepage

Nov. 2015

Cassidy Blundell received second place in Singh Center Annual User Meeting poster competition

Oct. 2015

Jeongyun Seo, Cassidy Blundell, and Nick Perkons are among the finalists for Design of 2015 National Collegiate Inventors Competition

Sep. 2015

Dan Huh is featured on the Philadelphia Inquirer

June 2015

Drs. Huh and Ingber have received the Design of the Year Award from London's Design Museum for their design of organs-on-chips. Also see most recent press release from BBC News, The Guardian, Wired, Gizmodo, Inhabitat, Motherboard, The Conversation, etc.

June 2015

Check out Dr. Huh's TEDx talk!

March 2015

The lung-on-a-chip has been formally acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York

March 2015

Eric’s review paper has been published online in Nature Review Drug Discovery!

Jan. 2015

Our group has been awarded the Collaborative Project Funding from Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine!

Jan. 2015

Megan Farrell is the recipient of 2015 IRM Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Congrats, Megan!

Oct. 2014

Our work is featured in WHYY's Newswork's "In quest for better treatments, Penn prof's 'avatars of human organs' simulate lungs"

Oct. 2014

Jeongyun Seo has been awarded the Tony B. Academic Travel Award from Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). Congrats, Jeongyun!

Sep. 2014

Dan Huh has been selected to receive the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (also see PENN press release)

Apr. 2014

Eric Esch has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations, Eric!

Feb. 2013

Lung-on-a-chip was awarded the NC3Rs Annual 3Rs Prize from the UK's National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).

Nov. 2012

Our paper on pulmonary edema-on-a-chip has been selected as a cover article in Science Translational Medicine and was featured in Science, Reuters, MIT-Tech. Review, Harvard Gazette, IEEE Spectrum, Fox News, Chosun Ilbo, Kookmin Ilbo, KBS News, etc.

Feb. 2012

Dan Huh receives the SLAS Innovation Award from Society for Lab Automation and Screening

Sep. 2011

Lung-on-a-chip is selected as a Finalist for INDEX: Design for Life Award

Apr. 2011

Dan Huh receives the Scientific Breakthrough of the Year Award from American Thorasic Society (ATS)

Mar. 2011

Dan Huh receives the Best Publication Award from the Nanotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology

Mar. 2011

Best Postdoctoral Award in the In Vitro and Alternative Methods Annual Competition. This award honors researchers who have made significant contributions to developing in vitro test systems as rapid, cost-effective alternatives to animal testing for predictive toxicology and risk assessment

Mar. 2011

Lung-on-a-chip is featured in Scientific American

Dec. 2010

Lung-on-a-chip is named to the Top 100 Stories of 2010 by Discover Magazine