Lowe wins NJCBIR Fellowship
Christopher Lowe, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a 3-year, $100,000 fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research (NJCBIR). Chris aims to improve neural … Read More
David I. Shreiber
Shreiber named a “Turnitin All-star”: Receives Honorable Mention in Nation-wide Competition
David Shreiber was recognized by Turnitin for his achievements in developing tools and policies to limit plagirism in graduate studies. You can listen to Dr. Shreiber describe his efforts here.
Shreiber and Gaudet patent photo-active collagen
David Shreiber and Ian Gaudet have been awarded a patent for collagen methacrylamide, a type-I collagen derviative that matinains the self-assembly properties of type-I collagen but is also highly reactive … Read More
Kathryn Drzewiecki earns honorable mention at SBC
Kathryn Drzewiecki received honorable mention in the PhD Student Paper Competiton. at the 2013 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Sun River, OR. Kathryn’s paper on the thermoreversibility of collagen methacrylamide was selected … Read More
REU Site Renewed by NSF
The NSF-sponsored REU Site in Cellular Bioengineering: From Biomaterials to Stem Cells was renewed via a 3-year, $360,000 award. The program will be led by PI David Shreiber and co-PI … Read More
Ian defends PhD Thesis
Ian Gaudet defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Development, Characterization, and Applications of Self-Assembling, Photocrosslinkable Collagen-based Hydrogels”. In addition to Dr. Shreiber, Dr. Prabhas Moghe (BME/CBE), Dr. Bonnie Firestein (CBN), and … Read More
NINDS/NIH BRP Awarded for Nerve Guidance Conduit Development
A 5-year, $2.9 million NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership R01 has been awarded to Professors Joachim Kohn and Jared Bushman (New Jersey Center for Biomaterials), David Shreiber (Biomedical Engineering), and Melitta … Read More
Shirley defends PhD Thesis
Shirley Masand defended her PhD dissertation, entitled “Glycomimetic functionalized collagen hydrogels for peripheral nerve repair”. In addition to Dr. Shreiber, Dr. Martin Yarmush (BME/CBE), Dr. Li Cai (BME), Dr. Melitta … Read More
NJ Center for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering faculty team up for NJCSCR Award
Joachim Kohn and Jared Bushman from the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials and David Shreiber and Jeffrey Zahn from Biomedical Engineering were awarded a 3-year, $593,000 grant from the New … Read More
BME Faculty Team Up for $540,000 Grant from NJCBIR
Professor Martin Yarmush, Rene Schloss, and David Shreiber have been awarded a 3-year, $540,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research for a project entitled, “Mesenchymal Stem … Read More