Natalie Condon, Daphna Fertil, Sareena Karim, Orlaith Kennedy, and Kelly Seims all graduated earlier this year and are moving on to their next steps! Natalie is joining IVIVA Medical as a Research AssociateDaphna is heading to the National Institutes of Health as a Postbaccauleareate Scholar in Dr. Kaitlyn Sadtler's labSareena is continuing to build her... Continue Reading →

John Tolbert defended his dissertation proposal titled, “Investigating and Controlling the Mechanical Properties of Solvent-Cast Constructs for Tunable Biomaterial Scaffolds” with flying colors! It was exciting to see how much he has done over the past four years and how big of an impact he has had on the group. Many thanks to his committee... Continue Reading →

Late to post this! Diana Hammerstone, Kelly Seims, and John Tolbert presented their latest work at the 2022 Society for Biomaterials meeting in Baltimore, MD in April. Diana presented a rapid-fire talk and poster titled, "Characterizing physical properties of constructs 3D printed with peptide-polymer conjugates." John gave a talk titled, "Characterizing properties of solvent-cast 3D-printed... Continue Reading →

Dr. Camacho Sierra gave a fantastic defense presentation on Tuesday, May 17 highlighting her work investigating how multi-peptide organization in 3D-printed scaffolds drives osteochondral tissue regeneration. It was exciting to see everything she has accomplished in the past five years! Many thanks to all who came to support Dr. Camacho Sierra in person and via... Continue Reading →

Our lab has been very lucky to have fantastic undergraduate researchers that contribute significantly to our research progress every academic year. This year was no different with six undergraduate students from Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) program. Here, we highlight their... Continue Reading →

Huge congratulations to Kelly Seims on fulfilling all requirements for her MS degree. Her thesis titled, “Effect of Growth Factor-Mimetic Peptides on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenesis and Chondrogenesis” describes how she developed this new research direction in our group. Stay tuned for future publications on this! We are so proud and thankful to have... Continue Reading →

Lesley Chow received the RCEAS Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award this week! This award recognizes a Rossin college faculty member who has clearly reached beyond their discipline to collaborate and develop significant research opportunities and partnerships while maximizing the impact of current research at Lehigh. Check out who else won awards on the 2022 Rossin Awards... Continue Reading →

We welcomed two new graduate students Natasha Hunt (Lehigh BIOE '21) and Andrew Kitson (Lehigh BIOE '21) into the lab this January! You may recognize their faces because they were undergraduate researchers in our group and completed their undergraduate degrees in Lehigh Bioengineering in December 2021. We are very excited and thankful they chose to... Continue Reading →

John Tolbert, Diana Hammerstone, Nate Yuchimiuk, and our collaborator Jon Seppala at NIST published a paper titled, “Solvent-Cast 3D Printing of Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds” in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering! Check it out to learn more about how we characterize our polymer-solvent inks and determine the optimal solvent-cast 3D printing parameters. Learn more about John's work and... Continue Reading →

Paula Camacho, Anne Behre, Matthew Fainor, and Kelly Seims published a paper titled, “Spatial organization of biochemical cues in 3D-printed scaffolds to guide osteochondral tissue engineering” in Biomaterials Science! Check it out to learn more about how our dual-peptide 3D-printed scaffolds drive human mesenchymal stem cell differentiation towards osteogenesis or chondrogenesis depending on peptide organization. This... Continue Reading →