Yubing Sun | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Assistant Professor

BME Adjunct

N571 Life Science Laboratories

University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210

ybsun@umass.edu

(413) 545-4543

(413) 545-1027

Laboratory for Multiscale Bioengineering and Mechanobiology

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Education

B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2010
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2015

Research

Our research applies and integrates fundamental engineering principles, such as manufacturing, biomechanics, materials science, and micro/nanoengineering, to understand and harness the mechanobiology of stem cells for modeling currently incurable human diseases and for applications in regenerative medicine. Current research interests include:

Stem cell bioengineering
System mechanobiology
Microengineering
Active biomaterials
Lab-on-chip
Tissue biomechanics

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Mechanical Engineering

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Publications

Peiran Zhu, Ning-Hsuan Tseng, Tianfa Xie, Ningwei Li, Isaac Fitts-Sprague, Shelly R. Peyton, and Yubing Sun. Biomechanical microenvironment regulates fusogenicity of breast cancer cells. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, in press, 2019.
Nariman Banaei, Javad Moshfegh, Arman Mohseni-Kabir, JeanMarie Houghton, Yubing Sun, and Byung Kim. Machine learning algorithms enhancing the specificity of cancer biomarkers detection based on SERS immunoassays in microfluidic chips. RSC Advances, vol. 9, 1859-1868, 2019.
Ningwei Li, Tianfa Xie, and Yubing Sun, Towards Organogenesis and Morphogenesis In Vitro: Harnessing Engineered Microenvironment and Autonomous Behaviors of Pluripotent Stem Cells. Integrative Biology, vol. 10, 574, 2018.
Xufeng Xue, Yubing Sun, Agnes M. Resto-Irizarry, Ye Yuan, Koh Meng Aw Yong, Yi Zheng, Shinuo Weng, Yue Shao, Yimin Chai, Lorenz Studer & Jianping Fu, Mechanics-guided embryonic patterning of neuroectoderm tissue from human pluripotent stem cells, Nature Materials, vol. 17, 633, 2018.
Bin Zhao, Casey O’Brien, Aruni P. K. K. Karunanayake Mudiyanselage, Ningwei Li, Yousef Bagheri, Rigumula Wu, Yubing Sun, and Mingxu You. Visualizing Intercellular Tensile Forces by DNA-Based Membrane Molecular Probes. JACS, vol. 139, 18182, 2017.
Nariman Banaei, Anne Foley, JeanMarie Houghton, Yubing Sun, and Byung Kim. Multiplex detection of pancreatic cancer biomarkers using a SERS-based immunoassay. Nanotechnology, vol. 28, 455101, 2017.

Honors

NSF CAREER Award, 2019
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, Honorable Mention, UMich, 2015
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, CSC, 2014
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research, UMich, 2014
Rackham Conference Travel Grant, UMich, 2012, 2013, 2014
Rackham International Students Fellowship, UMich, 2011
Department Fellowship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMich, 2010
Lixun Scholarship, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009
Ya Yang Scholarship, USTC Alumni Foundation, 2008
Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade1), USTC, 2007, 2008
National Lizhi Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P. R. China, 2007
813 Award, USTC Alumni Foundation, 2007

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