ChBE Highlights - April 2014

CU-Boulder's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (ChBE) has moved to 14th out of 126 chemical engineering programs in the recent 2015 US News & World Report (USNWR) graduate program rankings . This is a considerable improvement from last year's overall ranking of 18th. The department is also now ranked...

The question of whether or not stem cells remember past physical signals was addressed in a recent Nature Materials paper by Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth and collaborators Chun Yang, Mark Tibbitt, and Lena Basta. In their article titled, "Mechanical memory and dosing influence stem cell fate," Anseth and team conclude...

Distinguished Professor Chris Bowman received two five-year awards from NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for a total of $4.55M: "CU-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Reactions for Novel Dental Composite Materials," and "Dental Composite Materials Based on Photoinitiated Thiol-Vinyl Sulfone Reactions." He also received a $1.15M five-year award from the University...

***Update: Many thanks to all of you who attended this event! We were happy to see so many alumni, professional colleagues, and both graduate and undergraduate students. A video of the event is available for those who missed it (the talks start at 3:56). The Department of Chemical & Biological...

Associate Professor received $1.5M from NIH's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for "Personalizing Matrix Assisted Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation." Additionally, Bryant was awarded a $1.8M award from NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for "Synthetic Mesenchymal Stem Cell Niches for Vascular Therapy."

A recent paper from collaborators in the Anseth and Cha research groups was awarded the front cover of Advanced Materials Volume 26 Issue 6. The paper from authors Daniel McKinnon, Dylan Domaille, Jennifer Cha and Kristi Anseth is titled “Biophysically Defined and Cytocompatible Covalently Adaptable Networks as Viscoelastic 3D Cell...