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”.
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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.
Alvis, Ann, Archita, and Dhavan presented posters in the Texas A&M Life Sciences Recruitment Symposium
Alvis, Ann, Archita, and Dhavan attended the Texas A&M Life Sciences Recruitment Symposium. Alvis presented a poster entitled “A Mesenchymal Stem Cell Patch Promotes Tissue Engineered Lymphatic Vessel Integration: Developing a cure for lymphedema”.
Alvis Published a review article in Advances in Wound Care
Alvis’s review article “Tissue Engineering-Based Strategies for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Management” was published in Advances in Wound Care. Dhavan Sharma and Dr. Feng Zhao are co-authors of this review. Congratulations Alvis!