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Allen Research Group

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Dr. Josephine Allen Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

“Josephine Allen, Ph.D., associate professor and Genzyme Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, was elected to The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows on March 24, 2020. Dr. Allen was recognized for her outstanding contributions in advancing… Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Allen and Dr. Moore for being awarded a Space Research Initiative grant!

Congratulations to Dr. Allen and Dr. Moore for being awarded a research grant from the Space Research Initiative (SRI), entitled  “A 3D hydrogel model to assess endothelial cell-macrophage interactions in simulated microgravity”.  In this work, Drs. Allen and Moore will… Read More

The Allen Lab goes and returns from Space!

After several years of planning, optimizations and numerous launch attempts, the Allen lab has successfully launched their research on cardiovascular cells to the International Space Station (ISS).  Dr. Josephine Allen and her “space team”, Dr. Marina Scotti and Bryan James… Read More

Allen Lab Research is going to SPACE!

Congratulations to the Allen Lab for being selected for the Space Research Initiative and the Florida Space Institute to conduct research aboard the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory. The award is supported by the joint UF-CASIS (Center for the… Read More

The Allen Lab receives NASA funded GeneLab Innovation Award for Translational Systems Biology

The Allen lab is proud to announce that we were awarded the NASA funded GeneLab Innovation Awards for Translational Systems Biology. This 2 year award is based upon open-access spaceflight research data available via NASA’s GeneLab to understand how living… Read More

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Welcome to the web page for the Allen Research Group in The Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. The Allen Research group conducts research on biomaterials, cell-material interactions, and stem cell differentiation. The focus of our work is on developing strategies to control adult stem cell differentiation for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The goal is to better understand the multiple physiological signals and interactions that elicit molecular events governing stem cell differentiation. These molecular events, include substrate properties, mechanical cues, soluble factors, and cell-cell communication ultimately control stem cell fate and are the target areas of our research.

Towards this goal, our research is focused on several key areas.

Recent News

  • Congratulations Dr. Bryan James! Bryan passed his dissertation defense!

    March 22, 2021

    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

  • Alex Barbosa and Paxton Guerin accepted into UF Undergraduate Scholars Program!

    March 2, 2021

    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/

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