Bioengineering Seminar Series: Laura Suggs

Friday, September 26, 2014
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Pepco Room (1105), Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Assistant Professor Steven Jay
smjay@umd.edu

Laura Suggs
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

Biomimetic Design of Materials for Tissue Engineering

Suggs' lab is primarily interested in the development of biologically active materials and their use and behavior in cardiovascular tissue engineering. It is important to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms during processes such as vasculogenesis as well as the structure of both natural and synthetic polymers and their effect on living tissues. With this fundamental knowledge base, biomaterials can be designed to mimic naturally occurring structures found in the supporting extracellular matrix. Researchers have described methods to isolate adult progenitor cells from bone marrow and differentiate them into various vascular cell types. Suggs' lab is developing structural entities which allow for three-dimensional organization and directed differentiation of progenitor cell types. The end goal is to be able to grow vascular beds de novo for applications such as prevascularization of tissue engineered constructs or revascularizing ischemic myocardium.

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