Spring 2009 NewsletterGraduate Researcher Receives NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Bryan Brown, a graduate student researcher in the Department of Bioengineering. Bryan recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) F31 Predoctoral Fellowship for his work on "ECM Scaffolds and Macrophage Polarization Induced Tissue Remodeling". Brown notes that this work has been presented at a number of recent national and international meetings and received a best abstract award at the recent 2008 TERMIS-Europe Meeting in Porto, Portugal. Some of the results, obtained from Brown's research, were cited in Biomaterials, an international journal. About Brown's researchAs a graduate student researcher in the laboratory of Stephen Badylak, professor of surgery and deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Brown Investigates macrophage polarization in response to implantation of biologic scaffolds, peripheral blood monocyte participation in the host response to implanted biologic scaffolds, and neo-muscle formation and innervation within remodeling biologic scaffolds. He also researches surface characterization of biologic scaffolds, evaluation of an extracellular matrix-chitosan composite scaffold for tissue engineering applications, and the creation of a tissue engineered tracheal replacement, among others. Brown spent the summer of 2008 in Tokyo, Japan on a fellowship from the United States National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. It was here that he performed research in the lab of Masayuki Yamato in the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science at Tokyo Women's Medical University. The project was entitled "Development of Chondrocyte Cell Sheets for Use in Tracheal Tissue Engineering Applications". Memberships and associationsBrown belongs to the Students and Young Investigators division of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society. In addition, Brown is currently the head of the Bioengineering Graduate Student Council and the president of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). |
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