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Chris Meehan, a Chemical Engineering student, and Michael Parrish, a Bioengineering student, were recently awarded Northeastern’s PEAK Ascent award for Fall 2019. A new program, the PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. More information can be found here.

This award will support Chris’s project titled, “Engineering Apyrase modified Cryogels for the Suppression of T cell mediated Immune Responses.” Congratulations Chris!

This award will support Michael’s project titled, “Unlocking the full potential of cryogel based cancer vaccines by encapsulating CpG ODN with lipoaminoglycosides”. Congratulations Michael!

James Sinoimeri, Chemical Engineering undergraduate student, placed 2nd place in the Falling Walls Boston competition with his pitch, “Breaking the Walls of cancer drug development using hypoxia-inducing cryogels (HICs)”. Falling Walls is an international forum in which scientists and entrepreneurs promote their research or business model to a jury and the general public. Finalists are invited to the Falling Wall Conference in Berlin. Congratulations James!

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Zach Rogers was selected to join Northeastern University’s NSF I-Corps Program for Fall 2019 with his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels as a fast and inexpensive technology for hypoxic cell culture conditions”. This program is designed to help scientists begin the process of commercializing STEM-related research and innovation.

Congrats Zach!

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Lauren Gerbereux, Chemical Engineering student, was recently awarded the Northeastern University Honors Early Research Award through her research project, “Optimization of Hypoxia-Inducing Cryogels”.

Congrats Lauren!

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Congrats Kasturi and team (M. Rezaeeyazdi, T. Colombani, and S. A. Bencherif)!

In this cover picture, a scanning electron micrograph (SEM) is shown displaying Pseudomonas aeruginosa, rod‐shaped bacteria, nested on the polymer walls of a cryogel scaffold. The cryogel is made out of hyaluronic acid, a naturally‐occurring biopolymer. To enhance visualization, bacteria are pseudo‐colored in blue while elongated flagella are pseudo‐colored in yellow.

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The LAMP Biomaterials has just launched a Twitter account! Follow us for the latest news on our research, lab members and activities.

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On August 9th, 2019, Mahboobeh RezaeeYazdi defended her dissertation “Designing Injectable and Autoclavable Cryogel Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Tumor/Tissue Reconstruction”, earning her doctoral degree.  Many congratulations to Dr. RezaeeYazdi! This is a huge accomplishment that requires a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.

Best of luck in all your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Devyesh Rana and team (Thibault Colombani, Halimatu S. Mohammed, Loek J. Eggermont, Samantha Johnson, Nasim Annabi, and Sidi A. Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting on the use of antioxidants, alone or in combination with nitrogenation, to help prevent dopamine oxidation and improve its stability for cell-based studies and/or for the design and development of biomaterials.

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Congratulations to Pierre Villard and team (Mahboobeh Rezaeeyazdi, Thibault Colombani, Kasturi Joshi‐Navare, Devyesh Rana, Adnan Memic, and Sidi A. Bencherif) on their recent publication, reporting on the engineering of robust and biomimetic cryogels that remain functional and injectable following the harsh autoclave sterilization process.

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