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
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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
Paper highlighted by Tissue Engineering
“Positively and Negatively Modulating Cell Adhesion to Type I Collagen Via Peptide Grafting” has been highlighted by Tissue Engineering as and important article in its latest print issue. See this … Read More
Sundararaghavan joins Wayne State faculty
Lab alumnus Harini Sundararaghavan has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI.
Senior Design team excels at conference
Lisa Cannarella, Jason Selim, Isaac Perron, Sameer Sood, and Asha Signamanalli received first prize for best design at the 2011 Rutgers BME Senior Design Conference. The team of seniors investigated … Read More
Stucky joins IGERT
Elizabeth Stucky has been awarded a fellowship from the NSF IGERT on Stem Cell Science and Engineering. Liz will study the effects of encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells on ischaemic injuries … Read More
Gaudet joins IGERT
Ian Gaudet has been awarded a fellowship from the NSF IGERT on Stem Cell Science and Engineering. Ian is developing novel approaches to create photoactive collagens for spatial control of … Read More