by Stacey Johnson | Jan 8, 2016
Jakub Tolar, the University of Minnesota researcher who shared stage time with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, has been awarded $2.4 million, by the Schulze Family Foundation, to support his work creating new skin for people suffering from burns and skin diseases, such as...
by Hamideh Emrani | Jan 5, 2016
In the fourth in her series on “What drives research in the field of biomaterials?” blogger Hamideh Emrani interviews Professor Kevin E. Healy at the University of California, Berkeley. You can catch up on Hamideh’s earlier interviews here. I met Professor Kevin Healy...
by Holly Wobma | Nov 10, 2015
The last two decades have seen a number of fascinating innovations in biomaterial scaffolds development. This comes from the growing realization that 2D culture of cells can only do so much in terms of mimicking physiological niches of the body. To encourage...
by Hamideh Emrani | Nov 9, 2015
Continuing with the theme of interesting biomaterials-related talks at the recent Till & McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada, was the one delivered by Professor Molly Shoichet from the University of Toronto. Her group focuses on designing polymer scaffolds to...
by Hamideh Emrani | Nov 4, 2015
Among many interesting talks at this year’s Till and McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada, there were a couple related to biomaterials, which I’d like to focus on. In the first talk, professor Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, talked about two recent...
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