Regenerative Medicine

Vanderbilt University engineering professor Jonathan Brunger has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to understand how cells and biomaterials can work together to improve tissue regeneration. The prestigious five-year award honors early career faculty who have the potential to serve as role models in research and education and lead… Read More

Vanderbilt biomedical engineers have demonstrated the potential for the first clinically available osteoarthritis drug that interrupts the disease process rather than solely managing the pain it causes. The group used “packages” of engineered nanoparticles to sustainably deliver a type of RNA to the cells in the joint over time after… Read More

REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Parsing T-cell activation is precursor to manipulating immune response to better fight diseases For more than a decade Matt Lang and collaborators across the U.S. have worked to recreate key components of T-cells and how they know when to start fighting disease. Conventional wisdom suggested that T-cells… Read More

A bold engineering approach to sort breast cancer cells based on their behavior first has produced compelling data that show less migratory cells create more metastases, contradicting the prevailing hypothesis on how cancer spreads. Preliminary discoveries by Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering, have led to surprising results. Read More

An expert in tissue engineering who recently received the prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award will deliver a public talk Nov. 18 about lessons learned from biomaterials used in orthopedics and plastic surgery. Jennifer Elisseeff is the fall 2019 speaker in The John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. Read More

Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Leon Bellan is working to create artificial human capillary blood vessels using cotton candy and gelatin. His goal is for researchers to use these man-made capillaries to help keep artificial organs and other tissues alive, which could dramatically impact the field of regenerative medicine. Vascular… Read More

Kelsey Beavers, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. candidate in interdisciplinary materials science, is exploring how inserting engineering into biological processes can lead to a healthier society. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt University) Behind the pathology for a variety of painful and deadly diseases lie genes that aren’t doing their jobs. They… Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a Society for Biomaterials 2015 Young Investigator Award for his achievements in the field of biomaterials research within 10 years of receiving his doctorate. The award will be presented at the Society’s 2015 annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., April 15-18. Read More

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Craig L. Duvall has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant. Craig L. Duvall The five-year, $500,000 grant – Polythioketal Hydrogel For SiRNA-Enhanced Regenerative Cell Therapies – will allow Duvall to continue research on advanced drug delivery systems designed to enhance the… Read More