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Pioneering Innovation in Biomedical Engineering, translating research into real world impact. 🧬

10/08/2026

Dr. Yangzhi Zhu of the Terasaki Institute, with collaborators at UC San Diego and USC, published a perspective in Nature Sensors on how to make tear-based wearable sensors reliable for long-term eye health monitoring. 👀

For people with dry eye disease, glaucoma, and other eye conditions, care often relies on occasional office visits that can miss how symptoms change day to day.

The team lays out a framework for sensors that account for blinking, evaporation, and tear flow so their readings reflect true biological change. 💧

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10/07/2026

From the lab to the clinic 🔬

OnVagus, a medical device company incubating at the Terasaki Institute and co-founded by Terasaki Fellow Dr. Aliesha O'Raw, has received institutional and regulatory approval to begin the first human trial of its noninvasive nerve-stimulation device for patients experiencing cancer-related wasting. 🏥

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10/02/2026

The Terasaki Institute has secured a $19.8 million contract from ARPA-H to lead "Prometheus," a project working to engineer transplantable liver tissue that doesn't require a donor match. 🔬

Named after the Greek Titan known for a regenerating liver, this effort brings together top research institutions to tackle organ scarcity. ❤️‍🩹

Read more here: https://buff.ly/7UBEEIU

09/28/2026

Terasaki Institute faculty member Dr. Yangzhi Zhu has been awarded a $6.9 million NIH grant to develop a smart contact lens platform for real-world PTSD monitoring, 👀 💧

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09/24/2026

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation have developed a reusable contact lens that measures serotonin, a hormone linked to mood and stress, directly from tears. Published in Science Translational Medicine, offers an early step toward simpler ways to understand stress and its effects on health. 💧

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09/21/2026

Congratulations to Terasaki Institute faculty member Dr. Johnson V. John, who has been awarded an NIH R01 grant to develop a multimodal wound-dressing platform to accelerate healing in chronic wounds. ❤️‍🩹

🔗 Read the full story to learn more: https://buff.ly/lPq8K2p

08/18/2026

Up Next in our Terasaki Talk series 🎙️

Take a closer look at the future of wearable electronics! ⌚️

Meet Dr. Tae-Woo Lee, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University.

Dr. Lee will share recent advances in flexible and stretchable organic neuromorphic electronics, an emerging field focused on developing soft, wearable systems capable of sensing, processing, memorizing, actuating, and visualizing information in ways compatible with the human body.

“Organic Neuromorphic Electronics for Artificial Nerves & Wearable Displays” 🧪

🗓️ Wednesday, August 21, 2026
🕐 11 AM – 12PM PST

🔗 Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organic-neuromorphic-electronics-for-artificial-nerves-wearable-displays-tickets-1990532615637

08/05/2026

Meet Dr. Uijin Kim, a post-doctoral researcher at the Terasaki Institute working on brain tumor research! 👩‍🔬

Dr. Kim's work uses stem cells to study a distinct form of brain cancer called IDH-mutant gliomas to better understand how it might be treated with personalized medicine. 🔬

Brain tumors remain some of the toughest cancers to treat, and researchers like Dr. Kim are working to change that, one experiment at a time. 🌍

This summer, Dr. Kim is also mentoring interns in tumor biology and disease modeling! She constantly shapes the future with innovative research and fantastic mentorship. 🧬

Want to see more of our work? Follow and visit our website.

08/04/2026

️Next up in our Terasaki Talk series ️🧠

We are excited to welcome Dr. Jerzy Szablowski to our upcoming Terasaki Talk session!

Dr. Szablowski is a Professor in the Department of Engineering at Rice University who will dive into how his lab is tackling a central bottleneck in both biological discovery and therapeutic development: the ability to noninvasively measure and control cellular function in vivo.

Wednesday, August 12, 2026
🕐 1 PM – 2PM PST

🔗 Register Today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/noninvasive-interfaces-for-monitoring-and-control-of-the-living-brain-tickets-1991737267784

07/23/2026

Wishing Dr. Keith Terasaki a Happy Heavenly Birthday from all of us at the Terasaki Institute.

His compassion, leadership, and unwavering commitment to improving lives continue to inspire our mission every day.

His legacy lives on in the work we do and the lives we strive to impact.

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