October 24, 2025

Congratulations to Prathamesh on presenting his WIP to faculty and students in the Bioengineering department! He displayed his results and his proposed aims for designing translatable Universal Hemostatic Absorbable Patches (UHA-P). Nice job!

October 1, 2025

Prathamesh and Joy visit Tempe, AZ to participate in the Surface in Biomaterial Interface (SIFB) 35th Annual BioInterface Workshop & Symposium! Prathamesh presented a poster, illustrating his use of electrospun patches as hemostatic agents.

September 3, 2025

Welcome to the Joy Lab, Saba! Saba joins the Joy Lab as a PhD student!

July 15, 2025

Congratulations to Prathamesh for presenting his research in the July Polymer Supergroup Meeting! He explained his work on hemorrhage control using electrospun patches to other polymer groups at Northeastern.

July 8, 2025

The Joy Lab is proud to be phasing out methylene chloride (known as dichloromethane (DCM)) in accordance with new EPA regulations. The Office of Academic and Research Safety (OARS) interviewed Justin and Prathamesh to learn more about the ways the Joy Lab is transitioning away from DCM. Read more about the Joy Lab’s substitution success story here!

June 17, 2025

Congratulations to Zixi for presenting her research in the June Polymer Supergroup Meeting! She explained her work focusing on directing bacterial surface motility to other polymer groups at Northeastern.

June 12, 2025

Joy, Justin, and Zixi attended the 7th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions! Here is Joy giving a talk on using peptidomimetic coacervates to disrupt mature biofilm attachment.

June 11, 2025

Joy, Justin, and Zixi attended the 7th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions! Here is Zixi presenting her 5-minute rapid-fire presentation on the structure-property relationship and antimicrobial activity of peptidomimetic polyurethanes. She also presented a poster on the same topic. Nice job, Zixi!

June 11, 2025

Joy, Justin, and Zixi attended the 7th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions! Here is Justin presenting a poster on the use of cationic peptidomimetic polyurethanes as an adjuvant with Gram-positive antibiotics for the treatment of Gram-negative infections.

May 31, 2025

Congratulations to Chin, Tanmay, and Prathamesh!

Their paper “Effect of cationic amine chain extender on oxidative and hydrolytic stability in segmented polyurethanes” has been published in Polymer Degradation and Stability.

May 7, 2025
The Joy Lab attended MIT Polymer Day! Zixi, Prathamesh, and Avinash presented posters detailing their use of polymers for antibiofilming, hemostatic, and sustainability purposes. Here is Zixi with her poster!

April 11, 2025
Congratulations to Zixi on presenting the first Joy Lab WIP at Northeastern! She displayed her past work on antimicrobial and antibiofilming polymers in front of members of the Bioengineering department.

April 9-12, 2025
Joy attended and delivered an oral presentation at the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting 2025 in Chicago! He presented in the Antimicrobial Biomaterials II session.

April 4-5, 2025
Joy, Mahdi, and Justin attended the Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) 2025 at NYU Tandon! Mahdi and Justin presented posters on immunomodulatory polymers and antibiofilming coacervates, respectively.

March 31, 2025
Congratulations to Joy on being inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering!

February 25, 2025

Our lab presented a poster at the 2025 Bioengineering PhD Candidate Day. Welcome to all the new students!

January 2025

Congratulations to Avinash on receiving a fellowship from NSF BioPACIFIC MIP!

December 10, 2024

Congratulations to Zixi and Apoorva!

Their paper “Programming Surface Motility and Modulating Physiological Behaviors of Bacteria via Biosurfactant-Mimetic Polyurethanes” has been published in ACS Applied Material & Interfaces.

November 8, 2024

Joy presented about 3D printed scaffolds that address wound biofilms and bacterial colonization in Diabetic Lower Extremity Symposium at Harvard Medical School.

September 20, 2024

Prathamesh, Zixi, and Mahdi presented at the Society for Biomaterials conference.

September 11, 2024

Congratulations to Apoorva, Amal, and Zixi!

Their paper “Coacervate Dense Phase Displaces Surface-Established Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms” has been published in JACS.

September 01, 2024

Welcome to Avinash and Justin! Avinash joins the Joy Lab as a senior scientist, and Justin joins the Joy Lab as a PhD student!