4H: Black and LatinX Voices in Biomaterials

Timeslot: Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Room: Shorebreak

About

The purpose of this session is to highlight the research conducted by biomaterials scientists and engineers from historically excluded groups and marginalized communities, including but not limited to Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native/Indigenous groups. Our session will consist of one invited keynote speaker and 10 short talks from submitted abstracts to our session.

  • 1:30 PM 188 INVITED SPEAKER.

  • 2:00 PM 189. An Injectable Smart Piezoelectric Hydrogel for Periodontal Disease Treatment. Lina Roldan DDF, Carolina Montoya, PhD, Varun Solanki, DDS Temple University.

  • 2:06 PM 190. Tuberculosis Treatment Strategies Through Sustained Local Delivery. Emmanuel Opolot, Horst von Recum. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

  • 2:12 PM 191. Evaluating Therapeutic Potential of Silk Fibroin Nanoparticles for Intravenous Oxygen Delivery. Marisa Pacheco, Jostin Armada, Hannah Bagnis, Bruce Spiess, Whitney Stoppel, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

  • 2:18 PM 192. Modeling of Carbon Monoxide Delivery for Treating Disruptions in the Blood Brain Barrier Endothelium. Rubens Jourdain, Tanya Enderly, Venkat Keshav Chivukula, PhD, Chris Bashur, PhD, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA.

  • 2:30 PM 194. Investigating Bio-Nano Interactions of Polyamidoamine Dendrimers within Synovial Joints. Juan Aleman, Brandon Johnston, Alan Grodzinsky, Paula Hammond, Simone Douglas-Green,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  • 2:36 PM 195. Development of a Nanoparticle-Hydrogel Composite for Gene Editing in Osteoarthritis. Larry Stokes, II, Isom Kelly, PhD, Brock Fletcher, Richard Darcy, PhD, Bryan Dollinger, PhD, Craig Duvall, PhD, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

  • 2:42 PM 196. "Gabriela Cervantes-Gonzales, Teja Guda, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.

  • 2:48 PM 197. SHIELD Hydrogels Allow for Long-Term Survival and Integration of Human Cortical Neurons into a Chronic Adult Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Vanessa Doulames, PhD, Meghan Hefferon, Riley Suhar, PhD, Neil Baugh, Theo Palmer, PhD, Sarah Heilshorn, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

  • 2:54 PM 198. Culturing Primary Hepatocytes in Glycosaminoglycan-Based Capsules: Interior ECM Components Promote Hepatic Organization and Function. "Rafael Ramos, MS1,2, Howard Matthew, PhD1,1Wayne State University, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.

  • 3:00 PM 199. Co-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels for Protein Localization: Humoral Immune Response. Lucas Melgar, Gregory Hudalla, Bethsymarie Soto-Morales, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

  • 3:06 PM 200. Alginate-Based Artificial Antigen Presenting Cells Improve CD8+ T cell Memory Formation. Mary Omotoso, Savannah Est-Witte, Sarah Neshat, Jordan Green, PhD, Jonathan Schneck, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  • 3:12 PM 201. A Thy-1 Negative Inflammatory Fibroblast Subpopulation Emerges as a Key Determinant of Fibrotic Outcomes to Biomaterials. Daniel Abebayehu, PhD, Blaise Pfaff, Grace Bingham, Andrew Miller, Donald Griffin, PhD, Thomas Barker, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

  • 3:18 PM 202. Elyahb Allie Kwizera, PhD, Xiaoming He, PhD, Katherine Tkaczuk, MD,University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  • 3:24 PM 203. Cancer Engineering a Three-Dimensional Multilayer Multicellular Model of Endometrial Cancer for High Throughput Drug Screening. Ines Cadena, Mina Buchanan, Kaitlin Fogg,Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.