Archita Sharma’s review paper “Updates on Recent Clinical Assessment of Commercial Chronic Wound Care Products” has been published in Advanced Healthcare Materials. Archita Sharma, Dhavan Sharma, and Feng Zhao are co-authors in this article. Congratulations!
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Alvis and Archita received the BME Graduate Student Scholarship
Alvis Chiu and Archita Sharma were each awarded a BME Graduate Student Scholarship for the fall 2023 semester from the department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M. Alvis and Archita each received a scholarship of $1,000 and a non-resident tuition waiver for fall 2023, spring 2024 and summer 2024. They were two of the numerous applicants for this competitive scholarship; congratulations on your award.
Dr. Zhao named AIMBE Fellow
Dr. Zhao has been elected to the 2023 class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows for her significant contribution in addressing critical challenges in cardiovascular regeneration and skin wound healing, her service to the biomedical profession, and inspiring female and minority students to participate in STEM. Congratulations!
Zhao Lab presented at the Undergraduate Research Scholars 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
Research published in Bioengineering
Alvis Chiu’s research paper titled “Fibroblast-Generated Extracellular Matrix Guides Anastomosis during Wound Healing in an Engineered Lymphatic Skin Flap” has been published in Bioengineering. Alvis Chiu, Wenkai Jia, Yumeng Sun, Jeremy Goldman and Feng Zhao are co-authors in this article. Congratulations!
Special Interest Group Member Spotlight
Dr. Feng Zhao is featured on the Society For Biomaterials – Cardiovascular Biomaterials Special Interest Group Newsletter [Winter 2022]!
Dhavan received Outstanding Dissertation Graduate Student Award
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!
Zhao Lab presented at BMES 2022 Annual Meeting
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 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!
