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Adam Feinberg receives the George Tallmann Ladd Research Award from the Carnegie Institute of Technology

Prof. Adam Feinberg has been selected to receive the 2012 George Tallmann Ladd Research Award from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (College of Engineering) at Carnegie Mellon University.

For 2012… “The George Tallmann Ladd Research Award was given to David Brumley, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Adam W. Feinberg, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Materials Science and Engineering. Brumley was awarded for the development of techniques for automatic exploit generation, formal methods and analysis to improve software system security. Feinberg received the award for basic research and technological development of new paradigms toward the facilitation of regeneration of a wide variety of tissues following damage by disease or wound.”

See more at: http://www.cit.cmu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_awards/winners/index.html#sthash.BV6cR2A4.dpuf

 

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Research Presented at Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Atlanta

Great job to everyone that participated in and presented research at the 2012 Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Atlanta, GA.

Prof. Feinberg presented, “Engineered Skeletal Muscle Sheets: Optimizing Structure and Contractility”

Dr. Palchesko presented, “Engineering the Corneal Endothelium Using Biomimetic Substrates”

Ms. Rebecca Wells presented, “Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Fibronectin and Laminin Nanofibers”

 

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Hiring Postdoctoral Fellows in Cardiac Tissue Engineering

We have an immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of cardiac tissue engineering, see below.

Description
A postdoctoral fellowship is available in advanced biomaterials development and cardiac tissue engineering within the Regenerative Biomaterials & Therapeutics Group at CMU. The research is focused on materials based, regenerative strategies to engineer the self‐assembly of cells into tissues and understand the emergence of higher‐order electrical and mechanical function. This is an NIH‐funded project that integrates developmental biology, bio‐nanofabrication of protein scaffolds and induced pluripotent stem cells in order to engineer human cardiac muscle tissue (myocardium) as a tissue graft for heart repair. Interested candidates can read more about our research at http://regenerativebiomaterials.com. This position is available immediately with an application deadline of December 15, 2012.

Qualifications
Applicants should have a PhD (or equivalent) in biomedical, chemical, or materials engineering, biophysics, cell/developmental biology or related fields and a strong interest in multidisciplinary biomedical research.  Existing expertise in cell culture and optical microscopy are required and additional expertise in microfabrication, soft‐lithography, molecular biology, stem cell biology, developmental biology and cardiovascular biology are highly desirable. Candidates should have a strong experimental background, academic history, and publication record, as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills.  Interested candidates should email their CV, a description of research interests, up to three first author publications, and the names and contact information for 3 references as a single PDF file to Dr. Adam Feinberg.

About Carnegie Mellon University
CMU is located in Pittsburgh, PA and embodies a unique collaborative environment that emphasizes innovation and research that transcends traditional engineering and scientific disciplines. The College of Engineering at CMU is ranked #7 by US News & World Reports and contains state‐of‐the‐art resources for biomedical research.  Additional resources and expertise are available via close collaboration with the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the West Penn Alleghany Health System.

Contact
Adam W. Feinberg, Ph.D.
feinberg@andrew.cmu.edu

 

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Publication: A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion

Prof. Feinberg is a coauthor on a new publication in Nature Biotechnology on the tissue engineering of a synthetic organism, an artificial “jellyfish.”  This work was led by PhD student Janna Nawroth at Caltech and a collaboration of scientists from Caltech and Harvard.  This is a fantastic example of how simple components (an elastic sheet and muscle cells) can be combined to enable the emergence of complex swimming behavior that mimics really jellyfish.

 

Read more:
Go to the paper at Nature Biotechnology
Harvard press release
Nature news release
Discover Magazine article 

 

 

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Major Instrumentation Grant Awarded

The Center for the Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems (CMECS) at CMU has been awarded a CIT infrastructure grant to create a cell phenotyping facility.  As part of this grant, the Regenerative Biomaterials Group will house a new Nikon deconvolution microscope and Imaris image processing workstation.  Additional qPCR, western blot and chemiluminescence systems will be located in Doherty Hall.