Innovations in Regenerative Medicine: Focusing on Endometrium, Muscle, and Wound Healing

Track Chair(s)

• MW

  Marissa Wechsler

  Assistant Professor
  The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
• MH

  Monica Hinds, PhD

  Professor
  Oregon Health & Science University, United States
• EM

  Erika Moore

  Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland
• BA

  Brian Aguado

  Assistant Professor
  Bioengineering
  University of California, San Diego

Moderator(s)

• 

  Karina Nakayama, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Oregon Health & Science University
  Portland, Oregon, United States
• DG

  Donald Griffin

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Semi-synthetic Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Promote Muscle Regeneration by Inducing BAT Differentiation of Fibro-adipogenic Progenitor Cells (FAPs)
  

  Presenting Author: Morgan Pfaff (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

  Co-Author: Anouk Killaars – Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

  Co-Author: Derek Ning – Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

  Co-Author: Michael Davies – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Co-Author: Anthony Nguyen – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Co-Author: Prashant Nuthalapati – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Co-Author: Mengyao Liu – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Co-Author: Xuhui Liu – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Co-Author: Brian Feely – Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Ctr.

  Last Author: Kevin E. Healy – Departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Development of a Multifunctional Hydrogel Platform for Investigating and Enhancing Muscle Regeneration
  

  Presenting Author: Alycia Galindo (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon - Knight Campus

  Co-Author: Veronica R. Spaulding – University of Oregon Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  Co-Author: Esther A. Mozipo – University of Oregon Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  Co-Author: Kelly O'Neill, MSc (she/her/hers) – Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, University of Oregon

  Co-Author: Ievgenii Liashenko, PhD – University of Oregon

  Co-Author: Kaitlin Fogg, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University

  Co-Author: Paul Dalton, Dr (he/him/his) – University of Oregon

  Primary Investigator: Marian Hettiaratchi, PhD – University of Oregon
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  An optogenetically regulated cell-based hydrogel patch for accelerated wound healing
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Kelley (she/her/hers) – Rice University

  Co-Author: Christian Schreib, PhD – Rice University

  Co-Author: Matthew Parker – Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Co-Author: Samantha Fleury – Rice University

  Co-Author: Samuel Gershanok – Carnegie Mellon University

  Co-Author: Liyang Wang – Carnegie Mellon University

  Co-Author: Jacob Robinson, PhD – Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Co-Author: Tzahi Cohen-Carni – Carnegie Mellon University

  Co-Author: Stephen Badylak – University of Pittsburgh

  Primary Investigator: Omid Veiseh, PhD (he/him/his) – Rice University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Engineering cell-instructive injectable hydrogels with pro-survival signals to promote oligodendrocyte progenitor cell transplantation for demyelinating diseases
  

  Presenting Author: Ashis Kumar Podder – University at Buffalo

  Co-Author: Mohamed A. Mohamed – University at Buffalo, The state University of New York

  Co-Author: Georgios Tseropoulos – University of Colorado Boulder

  Co-Author: Richard Seidman – University at Buffalo

  Co-Author: Fraser Sim – University at Buffalo

  Primary Investigator: Stelios T. Andreadis, PhD (he/him/his) – University at Buffalo
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  In vivo printing of patient-specific bioinks for treatment of volumetric muscle loss
  

  Presenting Author: Mohamadmahdi Samandari, PhD – University of Connecticut Health Center

  Co-Author: Jacob Quint – UConn Health

  Co-Author: Pejman Ghelich – UConn Health

  Co-Author: yori Endo – BWH

  Co-Author: Alejandra Rodríguez-delaRosa – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Olivier Pourquié – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Indranil Sinha – BWH

  Primary Investigator: Ali Tamayol (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Prolonged survival of injected cells via peptide-modified thermoresponsive citrate-based biomaterials
  

  Presenting Author: Huifeng Wang (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Rebecca L. Riter, MS – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Nancy Rivera-Bolanos, Ms – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Caitlyn Dang – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Chongwen Duan – 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2 Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE)

  Co-Author: Xiaomin Zhang – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Chad R. Haney, PhD (he/him/his) – Northwestern University

  Co-Author: Guillermo Ameer – 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2 Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE), 3 Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Bin Jiang, PhD – Northwestern University