We love our in-person delegation to Biomedical Engineering Society! They’re having a great time presenting research, networking, and meeting great people in our field.

Congrats Emi Kiyotake on a great talk about cartilage based hydrogels and their application in bioprinting. #BMES2021

Only 1 vaccine program in history (Covid) went from pathogen identification to success in < 1 year. This week one vs malaria got the green light by World Health Organization (WHO) after none for 140 years An mRNA 💉 vs HIV, 38 years later, starts a major trial next month graph by Max Roser Our World in Data

Summary graph of waning immunity for 4 vaccines over time, during Delta, against infections nature.com/articles/d4158…

5 days until #TERMISAM2022 We're featuring our Treasurer, Emi Kiyotake. Emi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oklahoma. She got her Ph.D. in BME at the University of Oklahoma where she developed conductive hydrogels for translational spinal cord regeneration (1/2)

We had such a great time at #TERMISAM2022 last week in Toronto!✈️ Congrats to Dr. Townsend for receiving the Outstanding Postdoc Award!🥇 Additional congrats to the entire lab for delivering great presentations and posters👏 Jakob Townsend Boushra Ajeeb Emi Kiyotake OU SBME

Additional congratulations for Dr. Fatima Syad-Picard for receiving the Young Investigator Award! It was fun to catch up with everyone again and see all the great presentations ajmellott

With the start of the new year, our lab has a new postdoc opening! (>$65-75K salary + benefits based on experience). Past research in nanomedicine, gene delivery, and/or in vivo is a plus. Email your CV to [email protected]. Retweets appreciated. TIA! ☀️

Prof. Jakob Townsend recently published about thiolated demineralized bone matrix in a sheep cranial defect in Materialia! Congrats! Read it here 👉📰 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Jakob Townsend OU SBME Emi Kiyotake

Check out presentations by Prof. Jakob Townsend, Dr. Emi Kiyotake, and Boushra Ajeeb at #TERMISAM2023 today and tomorrow!

Great presentations at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Day by Claudia Iribagiza, Joy Lambert, Dylan Garcia, and Kayla Gorham! Congratulations to Joy for winning 1st place in the BME category! And credit to her mentor, Prof. Townsend. OU SBME Engineering at OU Jakob Townsend

📰Check out our latest publication from PhD candidate, David Nedrelow, in the Journal of Biomechanics special issue dedicated to Farshid Guilak. Additional congrats to co-author Prof. Townsend! 👉Free download until 6/16: authors.elsevier.com/a/1g%7EU94-6-e… Jakob Townsend OU SBME

Check out our review paper on the Intrathecal Delivery of Macromolecules published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews Editors of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews! 5 more weeks of free acess! John Clegg OU SBME University of Oklahoma Research urldefense.com/v3/__https://a…$

A huge congratulations to Dr. Boushra Ajeeb for successfully defending her Ph.D. today!!🎓👏