Congratulations to Aliki for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Employing mineralized collagen scaffolds in a patient-centric approach for improved craniomaxillofacial bone repair”. Through her work, Aliki has greatly emphasized on the need to consider patient heterogeneity as a key parameter in our daily research while standardizing general lab culture protocols. Aliki’s leadership skills have always been admired in the group and we have no doubt that she will excel in her future endeavour. Up next, Aliki will be joining the lab of Dr. Antonios Mikos at Rice University as a Post Doc.
Harley Lab at the Society for Biomaterials 2023
Following Harley Lab members will be participating in SFB this year:
Sara Pedron: “Extracellular Tumor Microenvironment Influences Glioma Progression after Therapeutic Intervention”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P1187), Wed 6:30-8:30 pm
Chia Wen Chang: “Exploring lymphangiogenic function of microglia in brain microphysiological models in vitro: Biomaterials in engineering the tumor immune microenvironment”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P1099), Wed 6:30-8:30 pm
Kyle Timmer: ” Investigating Paracrine Signaling in Triphasic Biomaterial for Rotator Cuff Repair”, Loc: Coral 5, Thu 2:15-2:40pm
Hannah Theriault: “Developing Semi-synthetic Biomaterial Tools to Model the Interface of Endometriotic Lesions and Healthy Tissue”, Loc: Seaglass, Thu 4:45-5 pm
Brittany Payan: “Gelatin Maleimide Granular Hydrogels as a Model to Study Glioblastoma”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P2109), Thu 5:45-7:15 pm
Gunnar Thompson: “Measurement of Cell-Mediated Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Granular Hydrogel Scaffold”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P2113), Thu 5:45-7:15 pm
Vasiliki “Aliki” Kolliopoulos: 1) Licensed hMSCs exhibit enhanced immunomodulatory capacity in a biomaterial mediated manner, Loc: Silver Pearl (Rapid Fire), Fri 11:50 am 2) Licensed hMSCs exhibit enhanced immunomodulatory capacity in a biomaterial mediated manner AND Evaluating Donor Cell Variability in Mineralized Collagen Scaffolds, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P3151 and P3122), Fri 3:30-5pm
Victoria Kriuchkovskala: ” Validating Three-Dimensional Hydrogel Models of Glioblastoma for Discovery of Novel Therapeutics: Biomaterial-based in vitro cancer/tumor models for drug screening and diagnostics”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P3026), Fri 3:30-5pm
Yoanna Ivanova: “Optimizing a Perivascular Glioblastoma Model to Study the Effect of Radiation on Vasculature”, Loc: Exhibit Hall (P3023), Fri 3:30-5pm