Regenerative Biomaterials & Therapeutics Group
Prof. Adam Feinberg | Biomedical Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering | Carnegie Mellon University
Prof. Adam Feinberg has received the NIH Director’s 2012 New Innovator Award to fund the project “Human Myocardium Engineered Using Developmentally-Inspired Protein Scaffolds.”
Read more about this award.
NIH press release
CMU press release
Feature article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Congratulations to Martin Antensteiner, who won 1st place in the REU poster session this summer for his research entitled “Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Fibronectin”. His co-authors were Rebecca Wells and John Szymanski.
Congratulations to TJ Hinton, who in recognition of his outstanding performance during the past year as an MS student has been awarded a stipend by the BME Department to support his research in Summer 2012.
Dr. Feinberg has authored a research article entitled “Controlling the contractile strength of engineered cardiac muscle by hierarchal tissue architecture” in the journal Biomaterials. This article describes the use of engineered, matrix encoded boundary conditions to control the assembly and contractile function of engineered heart muscle. The results have important implications in how to maximize the physiologic function of engineered tissues.
This video shows examples of how controlling the alignment of the heart muscle cells can dramatically increase the contractile force these engineered tissues generate.
Dr. Rachelle Palchesko presented her working on the in vitro expansion of corneal endothelial cells at the 2012 meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Ft Lauderdale.
Dr. Feinberg gave a presentation entitled “Bottom-Up Engineering of the Extracellular Matrix” at the 7th Symposium on Biologic Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine held in Napa, CA on April 28, 2012.
“Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Adam Feinberg, PhD and Rachelle Palchesko, PhD. Dr. Feinberg is the principal investigator of the Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics Group at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Palchesko is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the group. Drs. Feinberg and Palchesko discuss the development of basement membranes and the regeneration of corneal endothelium.”
Welcome to Amrita Sahu, who is joining our group as a BME MS-track graduate student. Amrita will be working on ECM protein scaffolds.
Under the Fox Center OTERO program, Rachelle Palchesko, PhD and her scientific mentors (Adam W. Feinberg, PhD-Carnegie Mellon University, and James L. Funderburgh, PhD-University of Pittsburgh ) are researching the regeneration of the corneal endothelium, the posterior layer of the cornea. When this essential tissue is affected by disease or trauma, the corneal transparency is reduced and vision decreases.
To learn more about Dr. Palchesko’s research project, please view the following videos:
OTERO Project part A: Rachelle and Adam talk about the Fox Center Otero project on regenerating the corneal endothelium. Find out about the risks and rewards, the strategic view and the objectives associated with seed funding a multidisciplinary approach in eye regeneration.
OTERO Project part B: Rachelle and Adam talk about regenerating the corneal endothelium and how is this project different from traditional approaches. Learn about their research, the areas they try to understand and the instruments they use in their Lab.
A warm welcome to two graduate students that have joined the Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics group this semester. Rebecca Duffy from Virginia Commonwealth University is a PhD-track BME student who will be working on muscle tissue engineering. TJ Hinton from Purdue University is an MS-track BME student who will be working on new fabrication strategies for 3-D tissue engineering scaffolds.