McGowan Institute Injury, Repair and Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series
Board Room – 5th Floor Eye and Ear Institute
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
(Lunch will be provided)
For information regarding the schedule, please contact Latha Satish, MSc, MPhil, PhD at (412) 383-8082 / email: las238@pitt.edu
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2016
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| January | ||
| 5 | Guangyi Zhao, BS Graduate Student Department of Orthopaedic Surgery |
HMGB1 Induces Sterile Inflammation in Rodent Tendons Subject to Excessive Mechanical Loading |
| 19 | Partha Roy, PhD Associate Professor Department of Bioengineering Swanson School of Engineering |
Yin and Yang of Profilin |
| February | ||
| 2 | Jacqueline (Jaci) Bliley, MS Research Fellow Department of Plastic Surgery |
Regeneration of Long Gap Median Nerve Defects and Functional Reinnervation of the Abductor Pollicis Brevis Muscle Using Novel Tissue Engineered Nerve Guides in a Non-Human Primate Model |
| 16 | Vijay Gorantla, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Plastic Surgery |
Reconstructive Transplantation- Insights, Impediments and Innovation |
| March | ||
| 1 | Raman Venkataramanan, PhD Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Optimizing Dosing of Medications for First Chance in Life (Pregnancy) and Second Chance in Life (Organ Transplantation) |
| 15 | Kenichi Tamama MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pathology |
Spheroidal Aggregates of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Maximization of MSC Therapeutics |
| April | ||
| 5 | Alejandro (Alex) J. Almarza, PhD Associate Professor Departments of Oral Biology and Bioengineering |
TMJ Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering |
| 19 | Christopher Mahoney Graduate Student Department of Plastic Surgery |
In Vitro Release and Cellular Bioactivity of a Composite Adipose-Derived Hydrogel Scaffold |
| May | ||
| 3 | Rob Hartman, PhD PostDoctoral Fellow Department of Orthopedics |
Intervertebral Disc Cell Bioenergetics: Aging, Inflammation, and Survival |
| 17 | Cecelia C Yates, PhD Assistant Professor Departments of Nursing and Pathology |
Next Generation Wound Healing Strategies: “Smart Cell” Polymers to Improve Age and Excessive Scarring |
| June | ||
| NO SEMINAR SUMMER BREAK |
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| July | ||
| NO SEMINAR SUMMER BREAK |
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| August | ||
| NO SEMINAR SUMMER BREAK |
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| September | ||
| 6 | Kari Nejak-Bowen, MBA, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pathology |
Role of Wnt-mediated Biliary Repair in Cholestatic Liver Injury |
| 20 | Michael Tsang, PhD Associate Professor Department of Developmental Biology |
A Chemical Genetics Approach to Understanding Heart Regeneration |
| October | ||
| 4 | Yadong Wang, PhD Professor Department of Bioengineering |
Making Arteries from Plastics |
| 18 | Monte S. Willis, MD, PhD, MBA Vice Chair of Academic Affairs-Department of Pathology Professor-McAllister Heart Institute Department of Pharmacology University of North Carolina |
Therapeutic Targeting Proteotoxicity and Muscle-Specific Metabolism/Inflammation in Heart Failure: Two New Ideas |
| November | ||
| 1 | Michael Oertel, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pathology |
Cell-based Strategies to Restore Impaired Hepatic Function in Diseased Liver |
| 15 | Andy Duncan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Pathology |
Mechanisms and Function of Polyploidy in the Liver |
| December | ||
| 6 | Julie Phillipi, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery |
Mechanisms of Matrix Remodeling and Signaling in Thoracic Aortic Disease |
