Poster Abstracts

The poster session & dinner reception will take place at 6:00pm -8:30pm on Friday, March 16th.  Poster presenters should set up posters between 5:15pm -6:00pm.  

Poster boards are 5x4ft.  Boards can be displayed vertically or horizontally.  Pins and easels will be provided. Stop by the registration desk for your poster assignment. 

 

  1. Ashley Allen

    Ashley Allen (1); Zulma Gazit (2); Hazel Y. Stevens (3); Robert E. Guldberg (1,3)

    Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Regenerative Medicine Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2); Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (3)

    Incorporation of Platelet Lysate Gel Maintains Viability of Stem Cells within Hydrogel Constructs
  2. Randall F. Ankeny

    Randall F. Ankeny (1), and Robert M. Nerem (1)

    (1) Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Inflammatory and Thrombogenic State of Endothelial Outgrowth Cells Under Differing Hemodynamic Conditions
  3. Anthony O. Awojoodu

    Anthony O. Awojoodu (1); Anusuya Das (1); Edward A. Botchwey (2)

    Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia (1); Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2)

    Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization and Engraftment with S1P3 Inverse Agonism
  4. Priya R. Baraniak

    Priya R. Baraniak, PhD (1,2); Sarah Griffiths, PhD (2); Ian B. Copland, PhD (2,3); Jacques Galipeau, MD FRCP (3); Robert M. Nerem, PhD (2); Todd C. McDevitt, PhD (1,2,3)

    The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (1); The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. The Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Emory University (3)

    Xeno-free Culture of MSCs: Human Platelet Lysate Affects Proliferation, Metabolism, and Senescence
  5. Chris A. Bashur

    Chris A. Bashur (1); Matthew J. Eagleton (1,2); Anand Ramamurthi (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic (1); Vascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic (2)

    Engineering Elastic-Matrix-Rich Vascular Grafts within a Peritoneal Cavity
  6. Ryan F. Bloomquist

    (1) Ryan F. Bloomquist; (2) Gareth J. Fraser; (3) J. Todd Streelman

    School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology (1,3); School of Dentistry, Georgia Health Sciences University (1); Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (2)

    Gene Networks Link Dental Stem Cell Replacement with Morphology
  7. Gary Bowlin

    Archana Bhaw-Luximon (1); Gary Bowlin (2); Dhanjay Jhurry (1); Nowsheen Goonoo (1)

    ANDI Centre of Excellence for Biomedical & Biomaterials Research, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius (1) ; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2)

    Poly(ester)-poly(ester-ether) Based Electrospun Fibers for Scaffold Fabrication
  8. Eva Brauchle

    Eva Brauchle (1,2); Anne Knopf (1,3,4); Katja Schenke-Layland (1,3,4)

    (1) Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; (2) University of Stuttgart, Institute for Interfacial Engineering IGVT, Medical Interfacial Engineering, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany; (3) Inter-University Centre for Medical Technology (IZST), Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; (4) Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital UKT, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

    Raman Spectroscopic Signature of Lineage Specific Commitment in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
  9. Ashley C. Brown

    Ashley C. Brown (1,2); Saranya Sathanthan (1,2); Sarah E. Stabenfeldt (3); L. Andrew Lyon (2); and Thomas H. Barker (1)

    Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (1); School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University (3)

    Development of novel single chain antibody conjugated microgels for fibrin-triggered matrix assembly
  10. Olivia A. Burnsed

    Olivia A. Burnsed (1); René Olivares-Navarrete (1); Sharon L. Hyzy (1); Zvi Schwartz (1); Barbara D. Boyan (1)

    Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (1)

    Decellularized Shark Cartilage for Promotion of Chondrogenesis
  11. Steven R. Caliari

    Steven R. Caliari (1); Daniel W. Weisgerber (2); Manuel A. Ramirez (3); Douglas O. Kelkhoff (2); Brendan A. Harley (1,4)

    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1); Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2); Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (3); Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (4).

    Collagen Scaffolds and Soluble Factor Presentation for Directing MSC Fate
  12. Lizhi Cao

    Lizhi Cao, Zhengchun Peng, Ph.D, Wilbur Lam, M.D., Ph.D, Thomas Barker, Ph.D.

     Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory

    Development of a Magnetic and Dielectrophoresis Platform for Tweezing of Engineered Fibronectin Fragments at the Nanoscale
  13. Amy Y. Cheng

     Amy Y. Cheng (1), Asha Shekaran(2), Andrés J. García(1)

     (1)Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
    (2)Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States

    Engineered Bioactive Hydrogel Niches for Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Delivery
  14. Jin San Choi

     Jin San Choi (1,2), Min Jeong Kim (1,2), Gilson Khang (2), and Shay Soker (1)

    (1) Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, (2) Department of Advanced Organic Materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University
     

    The Effects of Extracellular Matrices on the Cellular Behaviors of Human Corneal Endothelial Cells
  15. D. Kacy Cullen

    John A. Wolf, Laura Struzyna, D. Kacy Cullen

    Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania

    Targeted Nervous System Reconstruction and Neuroregeneration Using Micro-Tissue Engineered Constructs with Living Axons
  16. Caitlin A. Cundiff

    Caitlin A. Cundiff (1); Rene Olivares-Navarrete (1); Sharon L. Hyzy (1); Christoph Appert (2); Zvi Schwartz (1); Barbara D. Boyan (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Institut Straumann (2)

    Inhibition of BMP Antagonists Enhances HMSC into Osteoblastic Differentiation on Microstructured Titanium Surfaces
  17. Antonio D'Amore

    Antonio D'Amore (1); Christopher Hobson (1),Nicholas Amoroso (1), Michael S. Sacks (3),William R. Wagner (1)

    (1) Department of Bioengineering and the McGowan Institute, University of Pittsburgh, PA (2) Fondazione Ri.MED, Italy. (3) University of Texas at Austen

    Structural Biomechanical Models to guide the fabrication of Scaffolds for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
  18. Tracy A. Denison

    Tracy A. Denison (1), Margit Maria Janat-Amsbury (2), You Han Bae (1,3)

    Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah (1); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah (2); Utah-Inha Drug Delivery Systems and Advanced Therapeutics Research Center, Songdo, Incheon, Korea (3)

    Porous Microspheres as a Scaffold for Tissue-Engineered Tumors
  19. Aaron DeWard

    Aaron DeWard, Junji Komori, Lindsey Boone, Toshitaka Hoppo, and Eric Lagasse

    McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

    The lymph node as an ectopic transplantation site for multiple tissues
  20. Alison M. Douglas

     Alison M. Douglas (1); Thomas H. Barker (2)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (1) (2)

    Monitoring Matrix Elasticity-mediated MSC Differentiation through the Characterization of Cell-matrix Adhesions
  21. Stephanie M. Duncanson

    Stephanie M. Duncanson (1); Tao Chen (2); Matthew L. Hibert (2); Brett Kodish (2); Nicolas Chronos (3); Mark C. Poznansky (2); Athanassios Sambanis (1,4)

    Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA (1); Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (2); St. Joseph's Translational Research Institute, Atlanta, GA (3); School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA (4)

    Incorporation of an Immuno-modulatory Molecule into a Cell Encapsulation Matrix
  22. Craig Duvall

    Christopher E. Nelson (1); Mukesh K. Gupta (1); Elizabeth J. Adolph (2); Jeffery M. Davidson (3,4); Scott A. Guelcher (1,2); Craig L. Duvall (1)

     

    (1) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt Univeristy, Nashville, Tennessee
    (2) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
    (3) Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
    (4) Research Service, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee

    Sustained Local Delivery of siRNA from Injectable PUR
  23. Brian C. Evans

    Mukesh K. Gupta (1); Craig L. Duvall (1)

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt university (1)

    Smart Intracellular Delivery of a Peptidic MAPKAP Kinase II Inhibitor
  24. Denver M. Faulk

    Denver M. Faulk(1); Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez(1,2); Li Zhang(1); Chris J. Medberry(1); Stephen F. Badylak (1)

    University of Pittsburgh, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA (1); Center for Innovative Regenerative Therapies, Department of Surgery, Transplantation Section, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2)

    Liver Tissue Engineering Using Whole Organ ECM Biologic Scaffolds
  25. Vincent F. Fiore

    Vincent F. Fiore, Thomas H. Barker

    Georgia Tech

    Thy-1 Expression Confers Lung Fibroblast Mechanosensitivity to Matrix Stiffness
  26. Koyal Garg

    Koyal Garg (1), Nicholas A. Pullen (2), John J. Ryan (2), Gary L. Bowlin (1)

    (1) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond VA 23284, USA. (2) Department of Biology, VCU, Richmond VA 23284, USA.

    The Impact of Varying Electrospun Scaffold Properties on the Phenotype of Bone Marrow Derived Murine Macrophages
  27. Traci T. Goodchild

    Traci Goodchild, Ph.D. (1) Michael Sweet, B.S. (2) Jianing Yue, M.D. (3) Amy Souder (4) Nicolas Chronos, M.D. (5) Mark Poznansky, M.D., Ph.D. (6) Jai Pal Singh, Ph.D. (7)

    Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute (1); Department of Infectious Diseases, Massachusettes General Hospital (2); Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (3)

    Induction of Arteriogenesis in Mouse Hindlimb by Bone Marrow B Cells as Determined by Micro-CT Imaging
  28. Amy L. Greene

     Amy L. Greene (1); Les Drewes (2); Grant Anderson (3); Edward L. Perkins (1)

     Mercer School of Medicine, Savannah Campus (1); Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine (2); College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota (3)

    Reengineering of the Blood Brain Barrier for Improved Delivery of Therapeutics
  29. Sarah Griffiths

    Sarah Griffiths (1); Dylan Nass (1); Ian Copland (2); Jacques Galipeau (2); Robert M Nerem (1)

    Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University (2)

    Mesenchymal Stem Cell Culture in Human Platelet Lysate: Effects on Chemokine Receptor Profiles, Doubling Time and Cell Size
  30. Conn L. Hastings

    Conn L. Hastings (1,2), Helena M. Kelly (3), Fergal J. O'Brien (1,2), Garry P. Duffy (1,2)

    Dept. of Anatomy, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland (1); Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland (2); Dept. of Pharmacy, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland (3)

    Thermoresponsive Chitosan, hMSCs and Desferrioxamine - A Pro-angiogenic Therapeutic
  31. Monika Holeiter

    Holeiter M. (1,2,3,4); Bluguermann C. (5); Evseenko D. (6); Crooks G. (4); Schenke-Layland K. (1,2,3)

    Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), 70569 Stuttgart, Germany (1); Inter-University Centre for Medical Technology (IZST), Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tübingen, Germany (2); Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital UKT, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany (3); University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA (4); FLENI, Stem Cell Laboratory, Escobar B1625XAF, Buenos Aires, Argentina (5); University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA (6)

    Impact of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Extracellular Matrix Proteins on Cardiac Cell Fate Decision
  32. Casey J. Holliday-Ankeny

    Casey J. Holliday-Ankeny (1); Randall F. Ankeny (2); Zannatul Ferdous (3); Hanjoong Jo (1,4,5); Robert M. Nerem (2)

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (3); Division of Cardiology, Emory University (4); Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University (5)

    Shear- and Side-dependent microRNAs and Messenger RNAs in Aortic Valvular Endothelium
  33. Cynthia S. Huang

    Cynthia S. Huang (1); Anusuya Das (2); Rebecca A. Ogle (3); Roy C. Ogle (3); Edward A. Botchwey (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia (2); LifeNet Health Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Old Dominion University (3)

    eGFP Bone Marrow Rat Chimera Characterization for Bone Regeneration
  34. Ross A. Hutchison

     Ross Hutchison (1); Amy Souder (1); Silavamuthu Natatrajan (1); Christopher Cross (1); Nicolas Chronos (1); Jai Pal Singh (1)

     Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute

    Monocrotaline Induced Pulmonary Hypertension in Rat is Associated with Significant Down Regulation of Krupple like Transcription Factor 2
  35. Jaehyun Jeong

    Jaehyun Heong (1), Vincent Chan (2), Casey Dyck (3), Jimmy Hsia (3,5), Rashid Bashir (2,4,5,6), Hyunjoon Kong (1,2, 5,6)

    (1)  Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
    (2) Department of Bioengineering
    (3) Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
    (4) Department of Electrical and Computer Engieering
    (5) Micro Nano Technology Laboratory
    (6) Institute for Genomic Biology

    A ‘Living’ Microvascular Stamp for Patterning of Functional Neovessels
  36. Sunyoung Joo

    Sunyoung Joo, Amelia Helms, Sittadjody Sivanandane, John D Jackson, Shay Soker, Sang Jin Lee, Anthony Atala, Emmanuel Opara and James J Yoo
     

    Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC

    Development In Vitro of Three Dimensional Ovarian Follicle-like structures
  37. Jeremy Kelly

    Jeremy Kelly(1); Timothy J. Keane(1); Stephen F. Badylak(1,2)

    McGowan Institute, University of Pittsburgh (1); Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh (2)

    Inflammatory and Alternatively Activated Human Macrophages Show Reversible Plasticity and Surface Marker Heterogeneity
  38. Min Jeong Kim

     Jin San Choi (1,2), Min Jeong Kim (1,2), Gilson Khang (2), and Shay Soker (1)

     (1) Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, (2) Department of Advanced Organic Materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University

    Optimized Cultivation of Human Corneal Endothelial Cells for Transplantation
  39. Jaehyun Kim

    Jaehyun Kim; Roger Khouri; Abigail Hwang; John Jackson; Sang Jin Lee; Anthony Atala; James J. Yoo

    Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
    Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC
     

    An Innovative Approach to Building a Clinically Relevant Sized Tissues and Organs
  40. Myung Hee Kim

     Myung Hee Kim(1); Tracy Ooi(2); Irina Fernandez(3); Marcela Mendoza(1); Naveen Mehta(1); Isac Lee(1); Krishnendu Roy(1)

     

     Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin(1); Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin(2); Dell Pediatric Research Institute (3)

     

    Generating functional T cells from stem cells: Towards on-demand cell immunotherapy
  41. Melissa A. Kinney

    Melissa A. Kinney (1); Rabbia Saeed (1); Boris Zakharin (2); Ari Glezer (2); Todd C. McDevitt (1,3)

    The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology (3)

    Characterization of Molecular Transport within Embryoid Body Microenvironments
  42. Karina Kulangara

    Karina Kulangara (1); Malathi Chellappan (2); Jennifer Yang (3); Yong Yang (4); Kam W. Leong (5)

    Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (1); Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (2); Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (3); Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (4); Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (5)

    Nanotopography as Modulator of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Function
  43. Sang Jin Lee

     Sang Jin Lee, Young Min Ju, In Kap Ko, James J. Yoo, and Anthony Atala

      Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine

    Biomaterial Induced Stem Cell Recruitment for In Situ Tissue Regeneration
  44. Rebecca D. Levit

    Rebecca D. Levit (1); Natalia Landazuri (1); Collin J. Weber (2); Susan S. Safely (2); Michael E. Davis (1,3); Milton E. Brown (1); Edward A. Phelps (3); Andres J. Garcia (3); W. Robert Taylor (1,3)

    1: Emory University, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
    2: Emory University, Department of Surgery
    3: Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Augmentation of Cardiac Function by Encapsulated Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Myocardial Infarction
  45. Mon-Tzu A. Li

    Mon-Tzu A Li (1); Nick J Willett (2); Brent A Uhrig (2); Robert E Guldberg (2); Gordon L Warren (3,4)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University (1); Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Physical Therapy, Georgia State University (3); Applied Physiology, Georgia Institute of Technology (4)

    Muscle Injury Causes Delayed Vascularization in a Composite Bone and Muscle Injury Model
  46. Elizabeth G. Loboa (1,2)

    Adisri Charoenpanich (1); Josephine C. Bodle (1), Seth D. McCullen (1), Elizabeth G. Loboa (1,2)

    (1) Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University; (2) Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University

    Biomimetic Material and Mechanical Stimuli for Functional Bone Tissue Engineering Using Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells
  47. Yas Maghdouri Moghaddam

    Yas Maghdouri Moghaddam (1); Lynne W. Elmore (2,3); Didier Dréau (4); Gary L. Bowlin (1)

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (1); Department of Pathology and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University (2,3); Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (4)

    Enhanced Electrospun Silk Scaffolds Promote Breast Epithelial Cell Infiltration
  48. Nazanin Masoodzadehgan

    Nazanin Masoodzadehgan (1); Gang Bao (1)

    Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Magnetic Resonance Tracking of human Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Super paramagnetic Iron Oxide Nano particles
  49. Michael J. McClure

    Michael McClure (1,4); Matthew Beckman (2); David Simpson (3); Scott Sell (1,4); Gary Bowlin (4)

    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital (1); Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University (2); Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University (3); Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (4)

    Proliferation and Differentiation of Myoblasts in Response to Platelet Rich Plasma
  50. Tara M. McFadden

    Garry P. Duffy (1,2); Ashley B. Allen (3); Robert E. Guldberg (3) and Fergal J. O’Brien (1,2)

    (1) Department of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (2) Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (3)Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

    Pre-engineered Vesselswithin a Collagen-gag Scaffold Enhance Vascuarisation In Vivo
  51. Nassir Mokarram

    Nassir Mokarram (1,2); Alishah Merchant (2); Ravi Bellamkonda (2)

    (1) Matreials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 USA
    (2) Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 USA

    Modulating macrophage phenotype stimulates endogenous pathways for enhanced peripheral nerve regeneration
  52. Barbara J. Muller-Borer

    Arun Ajmera (1); Maria C. Collins (1) ;Payal V. Pradhan (1); Kathleen Thayne (2);Ethan Anderson (2); Barbara J. Muller-Borer (1)
     

    Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine (1); Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine (2)

    Growth Factors Enhance Adult Stem Cell Mitochondrial Function
  53. Devin M. Nelson

    Devin M. Nelson (1) ; Zuwei Ma (2), Cory E. Leeson (1), Sang-Ho Ye (2), William R. Wagner (1,2)

    Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1); McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2)

    Design of N-Isopropylacrylamide Based Hydrogels to Meet Short- or Long-term Drug Delivery Objectives
  54. René Olivares-Navarrete

    René Olivares-Navarrete (1); Sharon L. Hyzy (1); Kathryn Vesper (1); Anja Gemperli (2); Christoph Appert (2); Zvi Schwartz (1); Barbara D. Boyan (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Institut Straumann (2)

    N-Terminal of Amelogenin Induces Osteogenesis in hMSCs via PKC and ERK1/2
  55. Patricia M. Pacheco

     Patricia M. Pacheco (1,2), David White D.V.M., Ph.D, DACVM (3), Todd Sulchek Ph.D. (1,2)

     Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Division of Select Agents and Toxins, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (3)

    Effects of Fc Density and Particle Size on Particle Internalization and Complement Activation
  56. Edward L. Perkins

    Edward L. Perkins (1); Donna Parke (2); Ashley Shearman (1); Jon Holy (3); Teresa A. Rose-Hellekant (2); Amy L. Greene (1)

    Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of  Medicine, Savannah Campus (1); Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus (2); Anatomy, Microbiology and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus (3)

    Development of ACE Synthetic Chromosomes for Bioengineering Applications.
  57. Edward A. Phelps

    Edward A. Phelps (1,2); Peter M. Thulé (2,3,4); Andrés J. García (1,2)

    Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Emory University (3); Atlanta VA Medical Center (4)

    Bio-Functionalized PEG-Maleimide Hydrogel for Vascularization of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets
  58. Parisa, Pooyan

    Parisa Pooyan (1); Rina Tannenbaum (2); Hamid Garmestani (3)

    Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1), Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University (2); Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (3)

    Mechanical Behavior of a Cellulose-based Nanocomposite in Vascular Tissue Engineering
  59. Lauren B Priddy

    Lauren B Priddy (1); Ovijit Chaudhuri (2); Brent A Uhrig (3); Mon-Tzu A Li (1); Nick J Willett (3); Robert E Guldberg (3)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (2); Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (3)

    Bone Regenerative Capacity of Modified Alginate Hydrogels
  60. Marco Quarta

    Marco Quarta (1), James Su (2), Rebecca Lee Snyder (2), Sarah Heilshorn (2), Tom Rando (1)

    Dept of Neurology and Neurological Sciences; and Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA (1); Material Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA

    Bioengineered muscle fiber niche of skeletal muscle stem cells for applications in clinical transplantation.
  61. Andrew L. Raines

    Andrew L. Raines (1); Nehal Patel (2); Rene Olivares-Navarrete (2); Christoph Appert (3); Zvi Schwartz (2); Barbara D. Boyan (2)

    St. Joseph's Translational Research Institute, Atlanta GA (1); Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA (2); Institut Straumann AG, Basel, Switzerland (3)

    VEGF-A has an Autocrine Role in Cell Response to Titanium Substrate Features
  62. Andrew Raines

    Jaipal Singh (1); Nicolas Chronos (1); Natarajan Selvamuthu (1); Andrew Raines

    Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute

    Co-ordinated Modulation of Nitric Oxide Pathway Genes by Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR): Implications to Vascular Regeneration Following Drug Eluting Stent Therapy
  63. Scott T. Robinson

    Scott T. Robinson (1); Natalia Landázuri (2); Brandi M. Wynne (2); Collin J. Weber (3);  Susan A. Safely (3); Ian B. Copland (4);  Jacques Galipeau (4,5); W. Robert Taylor (2,6,7)

    1) Emory University School of Medicine; 2) Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine; 3) Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine; 4) Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine; 5) Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine; 6) Cardiology Division, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center; 7) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology

    Sustained Delivery of Erythropoietin through Microencapsulation of Genetically Engineered MSCS
  64. Jennifer M. McCool and Isaac A. Rodriguez

    Jennifer M. McCool (1); Isaac A. Rodriguez (1); Scott A. Sell (1,2); Matthew J. Beckman (3); Gary L. Bowlin (1)

    Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (1); Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center (2); Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University (3)

    Evaluation of Cellular BMP Response in the Presence of Amelogenin, PRGF, and BMP
  65. Nicole H. Romano

    Nicole H. Romano (1); Amir Shamloo (2); Sarah C. Heilshorn (3)

    Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University (1,3); Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley (2)

    Endothelial Sprouting Morphogenesis in 3D Protein-engineered Hydrogels is Modulated by Matrix Stiffness
  66. Claire Segar

     Anusuya Das (1); Brian Hughley (2); Claire Segar (1); Daniel Bowers (1); Edward Botchwey (1, 3)

     Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia (1); Otolaryngology, University of Virginia (2); Orthopaedic Surgery , University of Virginia (3)

    Rapid vascularization and localized immune modulation enhance cell-based mandibular defect repair
  67. Scott A. Sell

    Scott A. Sell (1,2); Patricia S. Wolfe (2); Andrew J. Spence (3); Isaac A. Rodriguez (2); Jennifer M. McCool (2); Koyal Garg (2); Jeffery J. Ericksen (1,4); and Gary L. Bowlin (2)

    Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center (1); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (2); Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University (3); Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Virginia Commonwealth University (4)

    The Potential for Accelerated Wound Healing with Manuka Honey and Platelet-rich Plasma
  68. Debanti Sengupta

    Debanti Sengupta (1); Penney M. Gilbert (2); Kyle J. Johnson (3); Helen M. Blau (2); Sarah C. Heilshorn (3)

    Department of Chemistry, Stanford University (1); Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine (2); Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University (3)
     

    Novel protein-engineered biomaterials to generate 3D human skeletal muscle mimics
  69. Asha Shekaran

    Asha Shekaran (1,2), Taylor Kavanaugh (2) and Andrés J. García (1,3)

    Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (1), Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (2), Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (3).

    The Role of Beta1 Integrins and Alpha2beta1 Integrin-specific Hydrogels in Bone Formation
  70. Jung Bo Shim

    Jung Bo Shim(1); Hansu Jo(1); Minsung Hong(1); Gilson Khang(1) and Robert M Nerem(2)

    Dept of BIN Fusion Technology, Chonbuk National Univ, Dukjin, Jeonju, Korea (1); Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2)
     

    The Role of Demineralized Bone Particle in a PLGA Scaffold Designed to Create a Media Equivalent for a Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel
  71. Brian M. Sicari

    Brian Sicari (1,3), Vineet Agrawal (1,3), Bernard Siu (1,3), Neill Turner (1-3), Stephen Badylak (1-3)

    McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (1); Department of Surgery (2); University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pa, USA

    Preclinical and Clinical Evidence of Progenitor Cell Participation in the Remodeling of ECM Scaffolds
  72. Lonnie T. Sullivan II

    Lonnie T. Sullivan II (1); Dr. Alexandra Peister, Ph.D (2)

    Division of Biology, Morehouse College

    Development of an Inducible Genetic Marker for Stem Cell Transfection
  73. Hironobu Takahashi

    Hironobu Takahashi; Masamichi Nakayama; Tatsuya Shimizu; Masayuki Yamato; Teruo Okano

    Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University

    Three-dimensional Design of Cell Orientation in Reconstructed Tissue using Anisotropic Cell Sheets
  74. Christian Tan

    Christian Tan (1); Sharon L. Hyzy (1); Rene Olivares-Navarrete (1); Zvi Schwartz (1); Barbara D. Boyan (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1)

    Exogenous BMP2 Increases Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Production by Osteoblasts on Microtextured Titanium
  75. Johnna Temenoff

    Yongzhi Qiu (1); Johnna Temenoff (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University(1)

    Cyclic Tension Promotes Tenogenic Differentiation of Human MSCs Cultured on Novel Collagen-Fiber Scaffolds
  76. Tanushree Thote

    Tanushree Thote (1); Angela Lin (2); Nick Willett (2); Shamus Moran (1); Yazdan Raji (1); Robert Guldberg (2)

    Wallace H. Coulter Department of Bio-medical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2)

    Detection of Localized Articular Damage in the Rat Medial Meniscus Tear (MMT) Model using Contrast Agent Enhanced micro-CT Imaging
  77. Aubrey R. Tiernan

    Aubrey R. Tiernan (1), Kiranmai Durvasula (1), Athanassios Sambanis (1,2,3)

    School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (1) Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University, Atlanta, GA (2) Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (3)

    Development of a Pancreatic Substitute Based on Genetically Engineered Intestinal Endocrine Cells
  78. Erica G. Tierney

    Caroline Curtin (1); Sally-Ann Cryan (2); Garry Duffy (1,3); Fergal O'Brien (1,3)

    Dept. of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. (1) School of Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland. (2) Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. (3)

    A Gene-Activated Matrix Containing Dual Vectors and Genes for Bone Tissue Regeneration
  79. Guanghu Wang

    Guanghu Wang(1) ;Kannan Krishnamurthy(2); Dantera Tangpisuthipongsa(1)

    1, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA
    2, Kannan Krishnamurthy, Cold Spring Habour Laboratiories, New York, NY.

    Stress -Adaptation to Enhance Viability of the Neural Progenitor Cells
  80. Roy Wang

     Roy Wang (1); Rudy Gleason, Ph.D. (1,2,3); Luke Brewster, M.D., Ph.D. (3,4)

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2); Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology (3); Divison of Vascular Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine (4)

    Femoral Artery Stiffness Correlates with Circumferential Collagen Alignment
  81. Christine E. Wasilewski

    Christine E. Wasileski (1); Rene Olivares-Navarrete (1); Sahron L. Hyzy (1); Zvi Schwartz (1); Barbara D. Boyan (1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1)

    HIF1α Inhibition in Human Adipose Stem Cells for Promotion of Chondrogenesis
  82. Nick Willett

    Nick Willett (1); Angela Lin(1); Tanushree Thote (2); Yazdan Raji (2); Shamus Moran (2); Hazel Stevens (1); Robert Guldberg (1)

    Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1), Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2)

    Micronized Amnion Attenuates Osteoarthritis Disease Progression in a Rat Model
  83. Sahithya Wintrich

    Sahithya Wintrich, B.Sc. (1), Vasudha Surampudi, M.S. (2), Venkat Gadepalli, M.S. (2), Raj R Rao, PhD (2), and Anand Ramamurthi, PhD (1)

    (1) Biomedical Engineering, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH;  (2) Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

    Elastogenic Characterization of Rat BM-MSC-derived SMCs for Aneurysm Therapy
  84. Patricia S. Wolfe

    Patricia S. Wolfe(1); Scott A. Sell(1,2); Gary L. Bowlin(1)

    Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University (1); Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center (2)

    Analyzation of the Regenerative Potential of Electrospun Scaffolds Incorporated with Platelet Rich Plasma
  85. Shan P. Yu

    Ling Wei
    Shan Ping Yu

    Emory University

    Combination Therapy for Tissue Regeneration and Neurovascular Repair after Focal Ischemic Stroke

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