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Dan , Tobin , Kyle Kyburz , and undergraduate researcher Emi Kiyotake report on a photodegradable hydrogel for the co-culture of motor neurons and muscle cells. Confocal microscopy is used to erode three-dimensional channels allowing directed axon extension. The article currently appears in Biomacromolecules: Just Accepted Manuscripts. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bm500731b

Adrianne wins another postdoctoral fellowsip, this one coming from the American Heart Association. Congrats!

Malar , Dan , and Danny show the gelation and degradation kinetics of a polymer network using coumarin as a new class of photodegradable crosslink. Micron-scale erosion was performed at wavelengths as long as 860 nm. Find the paper here .

Undergraduate researcher Michael Nehls has been awarded summer funding by the American Heart Association to continue his work on valvular insterstitial cells (VICSs) with Postdoc Adrianne Rosales. Congrats Michael!

Adrianne was awarded the prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program . The award provides support over 3 years of postdoctoral work. Congratulations Adrianne!

Samir defended his thesis on Friday, May 9th. His research focused on the influence of the mechanical aspects hydrogels on the migration of metastatic cancer cells. Congratulations Samir!

Daniel McKinnon , whose work focused on developing dynamic chemistries for biomaterials applications, successfully defended his thesis on Friday May 2 and graduated with the University of Colorado Class of 2014. He was Kristi's 37th PhD student and will be moving on to a startup he cofounded called Agribotix that...

LabTV, a project supported by the NIH and Google, recently announced their video award winners at the Tribeca Film Festival. A video featuring Emi Tokuda from the Anseth lab was one of the winners! The video was created by journalism student Emilie Johnson and can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTQ1cOP23Y .

Samir Singh showed scaffold modulus and peptide functionalization affected tumor cell migration in a 3D synthetic matrix. His paper, entitled "A peptide functionalized poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel for investigating the influence of biochemical and biophysical matrix properties on tumor cell migration" appears in Biomaterials Science. S.P. Singh, M.P. Schwartz, J.Y...

Ian Marozas has also earned the prestegious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!