Recognitive Materials for Biosensing Applications
Projects
- Investigation of hydrogel-coated nanoshells (AuNS) as protein receptors in biological fluids
- Effects of geometry on the sensitivity of hybrid metallic hydrogel nanoparticle biosensors
- Binding dynamics of proteins on hybrid metallic nanoparticles
Drug Delivery for Tissue Engineering Applications
Projects
- Microparticles for the delivery of drug compounds for vascular tissue engineering
- Synthetic polymers for reactive oxygen species scavenging
- Hybrid nanoparticles for blood-brain barrier transport
Hydrogel Modeling of Chronic Disease Microenvironments
Projects
- Hydrogels to promote the mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (MSC) secretome for cell-based therapies
- Using hydrogels to either prime or rescue MSCs in chronic disease environments (i.e., osteoporosis, diabetes, etc.)
