People in Research

Christopher Allan
PROJECT: Wound repair and regeneration; tissue engineering; application of these fields to extremity injuries

Karl F. Bohringer
PROJECT: Programmable Protein and Cell Chips for Selective Attachment of Multiple Cell Types

Paul Bornstein
PROJECT: Cell and molecular biology of extracellular matrix and matricellular proteins and cell-matrix interactions

James Bryers
PROJECT: Bacterial adhesion; biofilms and immobilized cell bioreactors

David G. Castner
PROJECT: Development/application of surface analysis techniques (ESCA, ToF-SIMS, AFM, NEXAFS, SFG, SPR) for the characterization of biomaterials; organic thin films; immobilized biomolecules

Philip Fleckman
PROJECT: Controls of epidermal differentiation in normal and pathologic skin; pathophysiology of ichthyosis vulgaris and other inherited disorders of keratinization; interface of skin with biomaterials; development of the distal digit and its application to fingertip regeneration

Cecilia M. Giachelli
PROJECT: Improving Bioprosthetic Valves; use of Osteopontin as an Anticalcific Agent; tissue engineering; calcification; cell-material interactions; foreign body response; ectopic calcification

Kip Hauch
PROJECT: Cardiac/cardiovascular tissue engineering; percutaneous wound healing; surface modification and molecular engineering; platelet- and monocyte-biomaterial interactions; signal transduction

Allan Hoffman
PROJECT: Smart polymer bioconjugates; hydrogels; drug delivery; polymer surfaces

Thomas A. Horbett
PROJECT: Interaction of cells and proteins with foreign materials; controlled drug delivery devices

Shaoyi Jiang
PROJECT: Interactions of Matricellular Proteins with Structural Proteins for Cell Adhesion and Healing; studies of material-tissue interfaces for implanted biomaterials and tissue engineering

Themis R. Kyriakides
PROJECT: Interface between implanted biomaterials and tissues; biomaterial-induced inflammation; wound healing; tissue regeneration with a focus on angiogenesis; extracellular matrix remodeling

Frederick A. Matsen, III
PROJECT: PEG-grafted chitosan as an injectable thermosensitive hydrogel for sustained protein release; shoulder and elbow kinematics; pathobiology

John E. Olerud
PROJECT: Morphological Analysis of Epidermal and Dermal Adhesion to Biomaterials in Rafted Organ Cultures (in vitro) and in Animal Models (in vivo)