Presentation

Prof. Feng Zhao served as the Track Chair for Cardiovascular Engineering, organizing 10 sessions at the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Archita Sharma presented a poster titled “Implantable 3D Engineered Tissues with Perfusable Biomimicking Capillary Networks” at the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Baltimore.

Alvis gave an oral presentation “Fibroblast-Generated Extracellular Matrix Guides Anastomosis during Wound Healing in an Engineered Lymphatic Skin Flap” that won 2nd place!

Dr. Zhao gave an oral presentation “Tissue engineering strategies for cardiac and lymphatic tissue regeneration”.

Alvis Chiu, Archita Sharma, and Brandon Zhao presented their research at the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) Integrative Development, Regeneration, and Repair Conference in BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University, Houston, TX.

Archita Sharma presented a poster entitled “Implantable 3D Engineered Tissues with Perfusable Biomicking Capillary Networks.”

Alvis Chiu presented a poster entitled “Engineered Lymphatic Flap: A Promising Approach for Treating Lymphedema“

Te-An Chen passed her preliminary examination and proposal defense for her doctoral project titled “Engineering Anisotropic and Vascularized Stem Cell Patch for Cardiac Tissue Regeneration”. Congratulations!

Zhao lab presented at the 5th Annual Gulf Coast Vascular Research Consortium (GVRC) meeting in College Station on August 4-5, 2023. Dr. Zhao gave a talk titled “Structured cell-derived extracellular matrix for vascular bioengineering”. Alvis, Te-An, and Archita presented their doctoral research. Alvis presented a poster titled “Pharmaceutical Wnt Activation, Oscillatory Shear Stress, and Shear Stress Gradients Synergistically Activate Lymphatic Valve Genes”. Te-An presented a poster titled “Prevascularization of Tissue-Engineered Cardiac Patch using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Endothelial Cells”. Archita presented a poster titled “Evaluating Innate Immune Response and Patency of Engineered Perfusable Tissue Constructs”.

Dr. Zhao gave a talk titled “Extracellular Matrix for Cardiac and Lymphatic Tissue Engineering and Regeneration” at the 2023 Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) Michael E. DeBakey Institute Research Symposium. 

 

On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, Zhao Lab presented at the Undergraduate Research Scholars Symposium.  Sarah Voon presented a poster titled “Tissue Engineered Aligned Micro-Vessels for Wound Healing.” Eric Wang gave an oral presentation titled “Novel Highly Aligned and Porous ECM Patch for Wound Healing.”  The presentations were part of the LAUNCH Undergraduate Thesis program. The abstract book can be found here: https://launch.tamu.edu/LAUNCH/media/library/UGR/URS/docs/(official)-2223_URS_Symposium_AbstractBook.pdf

Alvis, Te-An, Archita and Yeh-Chia presented their doctoral research at the BMES 2022 Annual Meeting. Alvis presented a poster titled “Engineered Skin Flap Replacement for Breast Cancer-related Lymphedema”. Te-An presented posters titled “Cardiac-Specific Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds for Tissue-Engineered Cardiac Patch” and “Prevascularization of Tissue-Engineered Cardiac Patch using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Endothelial Cells”. Archita presented a poster titled “Evaluating Innate Immune Response and Patency of Engineered Perfusable Tissue Constructs”. Yeh-Chia presented a poster titled “A Novel Acellular Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft using Fibroblast-based Extracellular Matrix”.

Dhavan, Alvis, Te-An, Archita and Yeh-Chia presented their doctoral research at the 5th BMEN Graduate Research Symposium. Dhavan gave an oral talk titled “Evaluating Innate Immune Response and Patency of Engineered Perfusable Tissue Constructs”. Alvis presented a poster titled “Engineered Skin Flap Replacement for Breast Cancer-related Lymphedema”. Te-An presented a poster titled “Cardiac-Specific Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds for Tissue-Engineered Cardiac Patch”. Archita presented a poster titled ” Self-Exfoliated Covalent Organic Nanosheets for Chronic Wounds”. Yeh-Chia presented a poster titled “A Novel Acellular Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft using Fibroblast-based Extracellular Matrix”.