Congratulations to Dr Smit Patel on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation entitled “Engineering an In Vitro Pancreatic Niche”! His work established enabling technology for the long term culturing and assessment of pancreatic islet, which can serve to elevate not only pharmaceutical screening but also provide an in vitro window to study a hard-to-culture […]
Congratulations to Dr Cherie Stabler, professor and Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, on receiving the 2021-2022 Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Doctoral Mentoring Award. This honor, based on an extensive review of her credentials, letters of recommendation, and peer and student evaluations, recognizes excellence in mentoring graduate students. College Undergraduate Adviser/Mentor Award winners are also submitted to […]
Dr. Cherie Stabler, professor & Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, has been named a 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Fellow. The BMES awards Fellow status to members who have demonstrated exceptional achievement while maintaining a consistent record of participation within the society. It’s a designation generally given to some of the most accomplished leaders in the […]
Big congrats to Magdalena Samojlik, Ph.D. candidate in the Stabler lab, for her recent award of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled, Engineering a dynamic three-dimensional in vitro platform for the investigation of human Type 1 Diabetes immunopathogenesis! The prestigious fellowship will […]
Two new PhD students joined the lab this term: Damea Pham and Sierra Jackson! We are so excited to have these two new students join the lab!
Dr Stabler, in collaboration with Drs Todd Brusko and Holger Russ, recently published a review article in the July 30, 2021 special issue of the journal Science in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. The paper highlights advance in stem cell biology and graft site design, which offer innovative sources of […]
Magdalena Samojlik and Dr Stabler recently published their review on the unique immunological responses to beta cell implants and how biomaterials can serve to dampen these responses. The review highlights the key immune pathways activated when beta cells are implanted into a person with Type 1 diabetes, including autogenic and allogeneic responses. The paper discusses […]
Nicholas Abuid, in collaboration with Dr Gattas-Asfura and undergraduate students Katerina Zientek, Cristina Isusi Silgo, Jose Torres, as well as Dr Kevin Otto and his student Morgan Urdaneta, recently published our findings on modulating the antioxidant properties of cerium oxide nanoparticles via alteration of their pH and the molecular weight of their complementary polymer alginate, […]
Jiapu Liang, in collaboration with fellow graduate students Robert Accolla, Kaiyuan Jiang, and Ying Li, recently published our findings on the development of a multi-drug releasing porous scaffold. In this approach, drugs were loaded within PDMS microbeads and integrated into our porous scaffold. By loading into beads, enhanced control over drug kinetics was observed, as […]
Smit Patel, along with our collaborative team of Drs Agarwal, Phelps, and Buchwald and their students Matthew Ishahak and Walker Hagen, as well as former postdoctoral fellow Debbie Chaimov and MS researchers Ashwin Vilraj and Daniel LaShoto, recently published our findings on optimizing islet culture and monitoring in 3-D hydrogels within a customized, PDMS-free microphysiological […]
