The Schedule

Aritra Chattopadhyay - Cationic Conjugated Polymers with Tunable Hydrophobicity for Efficient Treatment of Multidrug-resistant Wound Biofilm Infections

Kareen Fajardo Cortes - Synthesis, Fabrication & Formulation of Silk Fibroin Implants for Sustained Doxorubicin Release

Sanjana Gopalakrishnan - Fabrication of Fluorinated Silk-based Hydrophobic, Anti-Fouling Coatings

Haijun Hu - Effective Alleviation of Traumatic Brain Injury by Injection of a Selenium-containing Hydrogel Ointment

Yang Hu - PCL Nanofibers to Enhance Schwann Cell Migration

Zeyuan Jin - Oral Administration of Theranostic Microgels for Monitoring & Mitigating the Dynamic Inflammation of Ulcerative Colitis

Sung-Han Jo - Cartilage Extracellular Matrix-based Injectable Synovial Substitutes using Click-chemistry for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis

Shifen Li  - In vivo Self-assembled Shape-memory Polyurethane for Minimally Invasive Delivery and Therapy

Linyang Liu - Cell-encapsulated Protein Hydrogels as Vascularization Platforms

Ryan O’Hara - Achieving Both Antifouling & Selection Adsorption in a PDMS-based Microfluidic Device by using a Functional Surface Segregating Zwitterionic Copolymer Additive

Sanyukta Patil - Designing Ionically Crosslinked Injectable Hydrogels based on Silk Fibroin 

Matias Picchio - Polydopamine Nanoparticles as Promising Nanomedicines for Follicular Delivery in Alopecia Areata Treatment

Rui Reis - Development of a Blood & Vitreous Substitute for the ex vivo Maintenance of a Human Eye

Salima Saidi-Besbes - Antimicrobial Triazole Based Cationic Polymers

Eugenia Spessot - Design & Optimization of Silk-based Biomaterial Inks for Extrusion Bioprinting 

Albert Tulli IV - Tuning Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks for Inducible Changes to Biomaterial Scaffold Applications

Anabela Veiga - Silk Sericin Hydrogels as a Promising Sustainable Platform for Skin Tissue Engineering

Desire Venegas - Bioadhesive Microcapsules as a New Cellular Treatment for the Diffuse Cartilage Lesions 

Beiduo Wang - Inhalable Zeitterionic Polyurethane Nanoparticles Loaded with Pazopanib for Treatment of Acute Lung Injury

Qiaopxuan Wang - A Neutrophil-immunoregulatory Cationic Hydrogel with Anti-IL-17A-specific Nanobodies for Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy

Haneen Yameen - Methacrylated Fibrinogen (FibMA) Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications 

Zhongfeng Ye - UTR-directed SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine is Highly Immunogenic & Broadly Protective Against Omicron Variants in Preclinical Models