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 →

Several members of the Chow Lab are headed to BMES 2021 in Orlando, FL from October 6-9, 2021! We are so excited to represent Lehigh University and share our latest work in person and virtually. Check out our presentations!

Congratulations to Natalie Condon and Daphna Fertil were awarded prizes for their summer research and presentations at STEM-SI Day on August 5, 2021. Natalie's poster titled, "Characterizing Properties of Solvent-Cast Biomaterial Membranes for Corneal Replacement" was awarded 2nd Place. She received a gift card to Lehigh's bookstore. Congrats, Natalie! Daphna's poster titled, "3D Printing Spatially... Continue Reading →

The Chow Lab was extremely fortunate to have a stellar group of STEM-SI researchers in our lab this summer. Huge thank you to their amazing graduate student mentors for training and sharing their knowledge! Special thanks to the STEM-SI Program, Lehigh University, the National Science Foundation (DMR CAREER 1944914), and the Pennsylvania Department of Health... Continue Reading →

Paula Camacho defended her dissertation proposal titled, "Peptide-functionalized 3D-printed scaffolds for osteochondral tissue regeneration" with flying colors! It was exciting to see her work come together and lead up to her final project with equine osteochondral explants. Many thanks to her committee members and close collaborators Drs. Hannah Dailey, Tom Schaer, Susan Perry, and Tommy... Continue Reading →

Kelly Seims and Natasha Hunt published a review paper titled, "Strategies to Control or Mimic Growth Factor Activity for Bone, Cartilage, and Osteochondral Tissue Engineering" in the Bioconjugate Chemistry! Check it out to learn more about how growth factors, growth factor binding peptides, and growth factor mimicking-peptides are covalently or non-covalently bound to biomaterial surfaces. This... Continue Reading →

Sareena Karim (BioE '22), a Thalheimer Grand Prize Finalist, pitched her custom hair product company FoliQ at the Thalheimer Grand Prize and People's Choice Competition hosted by the Baker Institute last night! She was awarded two prizes: the RK Laros Foundation Endowed Prize for Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation and the Michael W. Levin ’87 Advanced... Continue Reading →

John Tolbert has a new co-authored paper out in Soft Matter! This work was led by Dr. ChyaYan Liaw and Prof. Murat Guvendiren at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Check out their paper titled, "Interlayer Bonding Strength of 3D Printed PEEK Specimens" today! We enjoyed collaborating with the Guvendiren lab and look forward to... Continue Reading →

Nate Yuchimiuk (BioE '21) presented his work on "Developing Techniques to Characterize Solvent-Cast 3D-Printed Scaffolds" at Lehigh Engineering's annual David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 7, 2021. Thanks to the virtual format, you can learn more about Nate's awesome work directly from him. Check it out here. Congratulations on being nominated by our... Continue Reading →