Dr. McCloskey was inducted into AIMBE, 2022 Class of Fellows
https://aimbe.org/dr-kara-mccloskey-elected-to-the-2022-class-of-the-aimbe-college-of-fellows/
Tissue Engineering Course at UC Merced is Making Biological Machines
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/students-building-living-machines-out-engineered-tissues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHXHT2phKY
Shrinky-Dink Microfluidics
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0508-474.pdf?origin=ppub
Dr. McCloskey’ Group Participates in a Number of Resesarch Centers
CREST Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Machines (CCBM)
The Center for Emergent Behaviors in Integrated Cellular Systems, Science and Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) https://news.mit.edu/2010/001897654-nsf-grant
QSB Summer Lab Olympics 2016
Team Fighting Fairy Shrimp place Bronze
The Ruiz Prize in Entrepreneurial Communication
Doctoral student, Rachel Hatano, won first place in the Entrepreneurial Communication for her heart patch.
2014 IGERT Poster Award
Doctoral student, Rachel Hatano, won a poster award at the CMMB IGERT Summer Workshop hosted at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
McCloskeylab Team Building 2014
The McCloskey laboratory raised over $600 for kids with cancer in a team building activity for the Jessie Rees Foundation
McCloskeylab was awarded a CIRM Basic Biology V Grant 2014
Kara McCloskey was recently awarded a highly competitive $500,000 grant to continue tackling significant, unresolve issues in human stem cell biology, as part of an effort to enhance stem-cell research in California.