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Graduate Student Karli Gold successfully defended her Ph.D thesis titled "3D Printed Blood Vessels for Translational Medicine".
Researchers in Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar’s lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a “lotus effect” by incorporating atomic defects in nanomaterials, which could have widespread applications in biomedical field including biosensing, lab-on-a-chip, blood-repellent, anti-fouling and self-cleaning applications.
Students are recognized for exemplary accomplishments in one of two categories: Research and Teaching.
Researchers from Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, have developed a new way to deliver treatment for cartilage regeneration.
Led by Dr. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, a team at Texas A&M University has developed a method that employs 2D nanoparticles to promote blood vessel growth
Researchers have created an injectable bandage to stop bleeding and promote wound healing.
Sujay Shankar has been honored with several awards at the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival for his research project developing biomaterials for medical implants. Sujay won the Austin Energy Best of Fair Award, the First Place in Senior Division, the ASM Material Education Foundation Award, ISWEEP Award and the U.S. Navy/Marine Science Award for his project. He has also been…
Our recent work “Vacancy-Driven Gelation Using Defect-Rich Nanoassemblies of 2-D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Polymeric Binder for Biomedical Applications” published in Advanced Materials, takes a new approach of forming synthetic gel-like environments to house human cells.
A new method for manipulating the gel-like environments that house stem cells could help researchers direct the growth of these versatile cells into bone, tendon, tissue or other specific lineages, says a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who has developed the approach. Working with collagen-based hydrogels, which are biodegradable gels used in a number of biomedical applications because of their…
Congratulations to Charles Peak and Ramanathan Yegappan for being finalist - Biomaterials Day at Rice University, Houston. (June 2015)
Internal bleeding is a leading cause of death on the battlefield, but a new, injectable material developed by team of researchers from Texas A&M University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could buy wounded soldiers the time they need to survive by preventing blood loss from serious internal injuries.
Punyavee Kerativitayanan (graduate student) presented her research work entitled “Engineering Elastomeric and Mechanically Stiff Nanocomposite by Covalently Crosslinking Poly(glycerol sebacate) and Silicate Nanoplatelets” at the 247th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Dallas (2014)
Contratulations to Prachi Desai and Janet Xavier for being finalist - Biomaterials Day at Texas A&M University
Research article entitled “Amphiphilic Beads as Depots for Sustained Drug Release Integrated into Fibrillar Scaffolds” published in Journal of Controlled Release (May 2014)
Research article entitled “Nanoclay Enriched Poly(ε-caprolactone) Electrospun Scaffolds for Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells” published in Tissue Engineering Part A (May 2014)
Punyavee Kerativitayanan presented her research work entitled “Engineering Elastomeric and Mechanically Stiff Nanocomposite by Covalently Crosslinking Poly(glycerol sebacate) and Silicate Nanoplatelets” at the Society of Biomaterials Annual Meeting, Denver (2014)
Our book on the Application of Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering is published by Woodhead Publishers. The book focuses on nanomaterial technologies that can be used to fabricate high-performance biomaterials with tailored physical, chemical, and biological properties
Invited Talk “Magical Nanoseeds to Grow Bone Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series” by Dr. Gaharwar BME, Texas A&M University (2nd Sept 2013)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 7, 2013 – Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, a postdoctoral associate at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University at the rank of assistant professor. Gaharwar, who received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Purdue University in 2011,…
Every Wednesday, our ‘Away from home’ blog series features one Indian postdoc working in a foreign lab recounting his/her experience of working there, the triumphs and challenges, the cultural differences, what they miss about India, as well as some top tips for postdocs headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag. Today we feature Akhilesh…