Dhavan Sharma was selected as the recipient for the Department of Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Graduate Student Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. This award is given to students in recognition of a dissertation of superior quality during the year prior to the nomination deadline. All nominees are reviewed and selected by the BME Graduate Committee. Congratulations!
Sameeksha awarded 1st place in the artistic engineering contest!
Sameeksha Sharma’s art work awarded first place in the 2nd Annual Artistic Engineering Contest. The images were submitted by graduate students, undergraduate students and faculty and included both research images as well as unique student artwork. Congratulations!
Dhavan Passed Final Examination/PhD Defense
Dhavan successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Engineering Completely Biological and Highly Biomimetic Tissue Constructs for Regenerative Medicine Applications”. Congratulations!
Dhavan passed proposal defense
Dhavan Sharma passed his preliminary examination and proposal defense for his doctoral project titled “Designing Highly Biomimetic, Perfusable and Immunomodulatory Constructs for Tissue Engineering Applications”. Congratulations!
Our Collaborative Work was Presented in TERMIS Annual Conference
Our collaborative work “Perfusable Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Patch Ameliorates Innate Immune Response” was presented in the Annual Conference of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS). The authors for this work are Dhavan, Te-An, Archita, Weilue, and our collaborators Linghao, Dr. Jeremy Goldman (Michigan Tech) and Dr. Alex Walsh (TAMU).
Dhavan received BME Graduate Student Scholarship
Dhavan Sharma was awarded a BME Graduate Student Scholarship for the fall 2022 semester from the department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M. Dhavan received scholarship of $1,000 and a non-resident tuition waiver for fall 2022, spring 2023 and summer 2023. Congratulations!
Research published in Advanced Healthcare Materials
Dr. Wenkai Jia’s research paper titled “Enhancement of Lymphangiogenesis by Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Sheet” has been published in Advanced Healthcare Materials. Wenkai Jia, Weilue He, Guifang Wang, Jeremy Goldman and Feng Zhao are co-authors in this article. Congratulations!
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adhm.202200464
Eric accepted by Undergraduate Summer Research Program
Eric Wang was awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Grant (USRG) of $5,000 to work with Dr. Zhao and Dr. Avaz in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
Eric Wang received Undergraduate Summer Research Grant
Eric was awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Grant (USRG) of $5,000. Congratulations!
Dhavan presented at Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting 2022
Dhavan Sharma gave a podium presentation titled “Fabrication and Characterization of Cardiac-Specific Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds” at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting (April 2022) at Baltimore, MD.