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Nghia’s work focused on making degradable, cytocompatible, and antimicrobial hydrogels for tissue engineering scaffolds. Read more here.

Samara (BEN freshman) will work with Nghia on hydrogels for Crohn’s fistulas as part of the ESTEEMED program at SU. Chelsey (Public Health junior) will… Read More »Welcome to our new undergraduates, Samara, Chelsey, and Paris!

This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of biomaterials research. Read about all of the 2024 award winners here.

Natalie won 1st place in the Stevenson Biomaterials poster competition, and Thalma won Best Commercialization Potential.

Shawn (sophomore BEN student) will be working with Natalie on foams for hemorrhage control, and Owen (freshman BEN student) will work with Nghia to make… Read More »Welcome to our new undergraduate researchers, Shawn and Owen!

Ernest will work on SMP foams for hemorrhage control, and Sam will work with Thalma on bacteria-responsive SMPs.

We celebrated with a make-your-own pizza party at Dr. Monroe’s house. Changling will finish up some projects and train our new PhD student this fall… Read More »Congratulations to Dr. Du on successfully defending her dissertation!

Jessica characterized the specificity of our bacteria-responsive SMPs towards bacterial and mammalian enzymes, and she set up our light-responsive SMPs. We hope to continue collaborating… Read More »Jessica presents her REU work at the summer symposium

We enjoyed showing these incoming freshmen our research!

We enjoyed grilling burgers for lunch, kayaking, hiking, and games together!