{"id":75851,"date":"2018-08-22T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=75851"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:27:25","slug":"hadi-nia-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/hadi-nia-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadi T. Nia, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In the News<\/h3>\n<div class=\"news-callout\"><ul class=\"news_list category_1033\"><li class=\"post_175494\">\n<h4 class=\"news_post_title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2026\/07\/08\/tracking-airborne-particles-on-their-journey-through-your-lungs\/\">Tracking Airborne Particles on Their Journey Through Your Lungs<\/a><\/h4>\n<span class=\"date\">July 8, 2026<\/span>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">In a paper published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, \u201cReal time single particle imaging of functional lungs reveals mosaic-like patterns of aerosol deposition in alveoli,\u201d Gabrielle Grifno, a doctoral student in Nia Lab, used the Crystal Ribcage to identify previously unrecognized details in the lung at the level of individual alveoli (air sacs).\r\n\u201cThe crystal ribcage technology was essential to this discovery, as it enabled single-particle imaging of the intact, functioning lung in real-time at a scale not previously possible,\u201d said Nia. <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2026\/07\/08\/tracking-airborne-particles-on-their-journey-through-your-lungs\/\">[ More ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14935,"template":"","affiliation":[200,938],"department":[141,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161302,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/75851\/revisions\/161302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"affiliation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliation?post=75851"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=75851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}