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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”.

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 “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).