Seminar: July 17, 2015, Dr. Daniel Hayes
TITLE: Gene Regulatory and Materials Based Approaches for In Situ Tissue Repair
SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel Hayes, Biological Engineering, Louisiana State University
DATE: Friday, July 17th, 2015
TIME: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
LOCATION: ECS 660
Abstract: Current clinical treatments of large bone defects include alloplasts, bone-grafts and growth factors but their limitations include availability, efficacy, cost-effectiveness and toxicity. Therefore, it is imperative to develop new strategies to facilitate bone regeneration that result in either superior or similar function compared to pre-existing bone. Here we will describe several techniques, both gene regulatory and materials based, to control bone tissue regeneration in situ. Our group has demonstrated a photoactivated plasmonic system to modulate MSC differentiation in vitro and bone repair in vivo. Additionally, we discuss based catalyzed thiol-acrylate systems for in situ polymerizing synthetic and hybrid graft materials.
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