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Join us this Friday, March 15th, at 12noon EST in ENGR 126 for this week's Temple Bioengineering seminar. We are excited to hear Dr. Sebastian Vega Sebastián L. Vega from Rowan Biomedical Engineering talk about "Design of Extracellular Peptide-Ligand Dimerization Actuator Receptors for Programming Cell Behavior."

Thanks for sharing our paper Hannah Zlotnick!

If you can't make it in person, here is the Zoom link! temple.zoom.us/j/92378758038

If you're at #NEBEC2024 come check out Arielle's poster this afternoon summarizing our findings published in Gels MDPI! Rowan University Rowan Biomedical Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology mdpi.com/2688632

Check out our latest publication! Here we blend PCL with PEG-Nor to create stiff PCL-Nor films & nanofibers amenable to thiol-peptide (e.g., thiol-RGD) tethering with spatial and temporal control. Rowan University Rowan Biomedical Engineering doi.org/10.1016/j.matl…

Super grateful for this Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering Alumn article! Here I talk about our U.S. National Science Foundation funded work on developing materials that preserve the identity of stem cells outside of the body, and our programs that inspire high school students to pursue careers in STEM. CMU_BME Rowan University

Congrats to Danny on a successful Masters defense! His research focused on developing injectable radiation dosimeter hydrogels that have the potential of being administered non-invasively to measure dose in real-time during radiation therapy. Rowan University Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Group photo during our end-of-semester lab meeting! We ate delicious pizza, watched our graduating students (6 undergrads, 1 Masters) present on their exciting research & welcomed Sarah & Shishir to the lab! #proudPI Rowan University Rowan Biomedical Engineering

Today, my Biological Transport students presented on how they used biotransport to develop theoretical products, including injectable gels for treating lower back pain (NuWave) and living vascular grafts to replace diseased blood vessels (HeartMate)! Rowan University Rowan Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to all Rowan Biomedical Engineering graduates & special cheers to BME graduates from our lab! Daniel Ball (M.S. in BME) is wrapping up a 1st-author paper on his thesis work, and James, Arielle & Abbey (B.S. in BME) will be starting Ph.D. programs this Fall! Rowan University #proudPI

Today 3 lab members earned their RowanCSM degrees! Tulika & Mackenzie (B.S. in Biol. Sci.) will take a gap year to gain clinical experience for med school & Aryanna (B.S. in Trans. Biomed. Sci.) will join Temple Med School as an incoming Ph.D. student! Rowan University #proudPI

First of many studies with Jay Patel on learning more on how cells sense & respond to heterogeneous mechanics within 3D materials - great work Adi Pucha!

Our 2024 RISER Program is in full swing! At our Meet & Greet we welcomed 22 high school students that will spend the next 5 weeks in Rowan University BME @ Biomed. Sci. labs - looking forward to seeing what they accomplish this summer! Rowan Biomedical Engineering Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Rowan-Virtua SOM

Congrats to our 21 high school RISER Scholars on superb presentations summarizing their summer research projects! As RISER Director, I'm proud to see this program's growth, and am super excited that our lab’s 3 Scholars plan to attend the Boyd & Moore HS Poster Expo in Baltimore!

Excited to attend & connect with everyone at the Biomedical Engineering Society #BMES2024 conference in Baltimore, MD this week! Come check out talks from Vega Lab grad students and posters from our undergraduate & high school summer researchers! Rowan University Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Vega Lab in full force #BMES2024!

Happy Halloween 🎃 from our Rowan University Chemical Foundations class!

New paper alert in ACS Synthetic Bio! Here, we designed receptors that sense peptides in 3D gels and showed that cellular activation only occurs in peptide-patterned (red) regions, as seen by their glow from the fusion of two GFP halves. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Rowan University