News

October 2026

Congratulations to Hammed Ayansola, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “Intestinal Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Dynamics and Regulation during Early Postnatal Development in Piglets.”

 

2026

The Jin Lab joins Caleo Biotechnologies on a Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Commercialization award to advance patient-derived organoid platforms for precision therapy in IBD.

 

July 2026

Our study showing that E-cadherin acts as a dynamic switch in epithelial regeneration in IBD is published in the American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. Congratulations to co-first authors Bereket Girma and Hammed Ayansola!

 

2026

Dr. Jin and collaborators Drs. Ghodssi, Stine, and Maisel receive a UMD Grand Challenges Team Grant to develop a gut-healing smart pill for IBD.

 

2026

Dr. Jin gives an invited session talk at the American Physiology Summit in Minneapolis. Hammed Ayansola receives the APS Martin Frank Travel Award, and Bereket Girma receives a Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant.

 

2026

Hammed Ayansola publishes on the remodeling of the intestinal mesenchymal niche in newborn piglets in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

 

2025

The lab receives a Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund DISCOVERY award, with Dr. Alix Berglund, to develop primed mesenchymal stem cell therapy for IBD.

 

2025

Jain Kim receives the APS John Forte Distinguished Abstract Award, and Hammed Ayansola receives the APS Steven M. Horvath Research Recognition Award at the American Physiology Summit in Baltimore.

 

2025

Bereket Girma’s abstract is selected for a featured flash talk at the FASEB GI Epithelium conference.

 

Ongoing

Join our team! We are recruiting PhD students for Spring and Fall 2027.