Prof. Bencherif, 2021 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator, was recently interviewed by Laura Ghandhi, Development Editor at Royal Society of Chemistry, and is now featured on Biomaterials Science Blog.  Check it out to learn more about our research and Prof. Bencherif’s… Read More

The lab was recently awarded a ~$2M R01 grant from NIH to tackle vaccine-associated hypoxia with advanced biomaterials to enhance cancer immunotherapy. This project is focused on the development of biomaterial-based vaccines against prostate cancer. This work will… Read More

Joyce Shen, third-year biochemistry student, recently received an Honors Early Research Award from the Northeastern University Honors Program for her project, “Engineering polyester-coated nanoparticles for extended oxygen release”. Congrats Joyce! More information can be found here.

In collaboration with the “laboratoire Biomécanique et Bioingénierie (BMBI)” at University of Technology of Compiègne/Sorbonne University, we report a new method for performing 3D cell cultures in microfluidic devices: a macroporous cryogel integrated biochip with tunable mechanical properties… Read More

One of our recent publications “Engineering a macroporous fibrin-based sequential interpenetrating polymer network for dermal tissue engineering” was featured on the front cover of the 2021 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators issue of Biomaterials Science. This article recently published… Read More

In collaboration with Prof. Ambika G. Bajpayee (BioE), one of our recent publications “Hyaluronic Acid-Based Shape-Memory Cryogel Scaffolds for Focal Cartilage Defect Repair” was featured on the front cover of the June 2021 issue of the journal Tissue… Read More

Congratulations to Thibault Colombani and team (Loek Eggermont, Stephen Hatfield, Zachary Rogers, Mahboobeh Rezaeeyazdi, Adnan Memic, Michail Sitkovsky, and Prof. Sidi Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting the design of injectable oxygen-generating cryogels (O2-cryogels) as a strategy to… Read More

“This award recognizes the Lab’s excellence in polymer research” Congrats to Prof. Bencherif for being selected as a 2021 Young Investigator by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (ACS PMSE). This distinction is… Read More

Zach Rogers, PhD student, was recently awarded the Alpha Fund Prototype Grant for his proposal, “Oxygen-controlling cell culture (OCC) systems”. The Alpha Fund, which is sponsored by both Northeastern’s venture accelerator IDEA and the Center for Research Innovation… Read More

Ramya Kumar, a B.S. student in Behavioral Neuroscience, recently received the PEAK Experiences Summit Award for her project entitled, “Development of Lipoplexes-Containing Cryogels for Cancer Immunotherapy”. The Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships grants this competitive award to… Read More