On Friday March 19, 2021 Bryan successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Engineering complex microenvironments & their applications to sex-specific mechanobiology and biomaterial development”. Bryan has been a member of the Allen Research Group for the past 4 years starting in… Read More
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Alex Barbosa and Paxton Guerin accepted into UF Undergraduate Scholars Program!
Congratulations MSE Undergraduate Alex Barbosa and BME Undergraduate Paxton Guerin for being accepted to the prestigious University of Florida Undergraduate Scholars Program! https://scholars.ufl.edu/
Just Accepted review in NPJ Microgravity!
Congratulations to Chris Ludtka, a PhD student in the Allen Lab, and Dr. Josephine Allen who recently collaborated with Dr. Erika Moore and one of her PhD students, Justin Silberman, on a comprehensive review of microgravity studies that have been… Read More
Allen Lab has chapter published in the upcoming edition of Tissue Engineering Using Ceramics and Polymers
The Allen Lab is happy to announce that they have authored a chapter on Bone Tissue Engineering in the upcoming 3rd Edition of the textbook Tissue Engineering Using Ceramics and Polymers published by Woodhead Publishing. The chapter was written with… Read More
Bryan James has paper published in Materials Science & Engineering: C!
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate/NIH F31 Fellow Bryan James for his research article, “Self-assembled VEGF-R2 targeting DNA aptamer-collagen fibers stimulate an angiogenic-like endothelial cell phenotype,” being published in the journal, Materials Science & Engineering: C. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202001034. This work was made… Read More
Bryan James has essay published in Advanced Healthcare Materials!
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate/NIH F31 Fellow Bryan James for his essay, “Let’s Talk About Sex- Biological Sex Is Underreported in Biomaterial Studies,” being published in the journal, Advanced Healthcare Materials. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202001034 This work was made possible by contributions from… Read More
Bryan James receives the Gridley McKim-Smith Women’s Health Fellowship Award!
Congratulations to Bryan James on being awarded a prestigious graduate student fellowship from the Foundation for Women’s Wellness! This recognition is in support of Bryan and his research focused on uncovering sex-based differences in vascular mechanobiology. http://thefww.org/fellowship-awards/
Allen Lab Welcomes New Masters Student Kari Ross!
Hi everyone! My name is Kari Ross and I am a first year graduate student in Biomedical Engineering. I am a double gator, having just finished my bachelors in Materials Science Engineering. Last summer, I worked in a laboratory in… Read More
Bryan James has paper published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate/NIH F31 Fellow Bryan James for his research article, “Mineralized DNA-Collagen Complex-Based Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering,” published in the journal, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.06.126 This work was made possible by contributions from Biomedical Engineering undergraduate… Read More
Bryan James has paper published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate/NIH F31 Fellow Bryan James for his research article, “MechanoBioTester: A Decoupled Multistimulus Cell Culture Device for Studying Complex Microenvironments In Vitro,” being published in the journal, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00498 This work was made… Read More