May 4, 2016
The Student Research Day was held during the Department of Orthopaedics Grand Rounds, Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Erica Kahn presented her masters thesis research titled “Time-Dependent Effects of High Compressive Loading on Tissue Engineered Cartilage”, advised by Dr. Bahar Bilgen, PhD.
Congratulations to Class of ’16 members of our lab, working with Dr Bahar Bilgen:
Annabel Lemma, BS in BME with Honors
Catherine Bautista, MS in BME
Erica Kahn, MS in BME
Brown University School of Engineering and Center for Biomedical Engineering 2016 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Symposium was held on Friday, April 28, 2016. Annabel Lemma, Biomedical Engineering ’16, presented her honors thesis titled The Effect of Various Mechanical and Chemical Stimuli on the Porosity of Decellularized Articular Cartilage Scaffold, advised by Dr. Bahar Bilgen, PhD. Congratulations Annabel and other Engineering students who completed their Honors Theses!
January 26, 2017
Our paper on cartilage decellularization and recellularization has been published, based on the masters project of Catherine Bautista, MS, mentored by Dr Bahar Bilgen, PhD.
You can access the paper here:
March 7, 2017
Drs. Chat Jayasuriya, PhD and Brett Owens, MD are award recipients of a one-year pilot project by the Brown Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR) to investigate the therapeutic potential of cartilage-derived stem cells for meniscus repair. This project titled “Meniscal Repair Using a Novel Subset of Cartilage-Derived Human Stem Cells will be mentored by Drs. Michael Ehrlich, MD and Qian Chen, PhD.
The two investigators were recently featured on Health Check: a segment of Rhode Island’s NBC Channel 10 News to discuss their exciting research and what it means for the future of regenerative cell-based medicine. Their story and interview can be found below.
March 22, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Lijun Wang, PhD on winning the prestigious New Investigator Recognition Award (NIRA), presented to young investigators at the 2017 Annual Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Meeting.
Dr Wang’s award winning talk was titled “SHP2 regulated endochondral ossification by modulating osteogenic differentiation of hypertrophic chondrocytes”, based on his postdoctoral studies under the guidance of Dr. Wentian Yang, MD PhD. Co-Authors: Chunlin Zuo, Douglas C. Moore, Qian Wu, Jiahui Huang, Liqin Xie, Matthew L. Warman, Michael G. Ehrlich and Wentian Yang, Department of Orthopaedics, Brown University Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York, Orthopaedic ResearchLaboratories and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MANIRA Supported by: University of California, San Francisco.
Congratulations to our students who presented at the Student Research Day, Department of Orthopaedics Grand Rounds at Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Jonathan Franco, BA’17, mentored by Dr. Chat Jayasuriya, PhD, presented his honors thesis work titled “Cartilage-derived stem cells for meniscal repair and prevention of posttraumatic osteoarthritis”.
Stephany Vasquez, MS ’17, BME, mentored by Dr. Bahar Bilgen, PhD, presented her masters thesis work titled “High and Low Compressive Loading on Tissue-Engineered Cartilage”.
Kevin Yan, BA’17, BIO, mentored by Dr. Wentian Yang, MD, PhD, presented his honors thesis work titled “SHP2 regulation of pre-osteoclast development and cytokine production”.
Gokhan Bahcecioglu, former visiting scholar at Brown/RIH in Dr. Bilgen’s lab and Ph.D. candidate in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, received the Best Poster Award among the 183 posters with his poster based on his studies conducted in our laboratory with Dr Bilgen, titled “Reinforcing agarose and GelMA hydrogels with 3D printed PCL: A novel scaffold for use in meniscus tissue engineering”. The 22nd Biomedical Science and Technology Symposium, BIOMED 2017, was held in Ankara, Turkey during 12-14 May, 2017. We congratulate him and his coauthors Dr. Bahar Bilgen, Prof. Vasif Hasirci and Prof. Nesrin Hasirci.
March 16, 2018
Drs. Bahar Bilgen, Chat Jayasuriya and Brett Owens publish “Current Concepts in Meniscus Tissue Engineering and Repair” in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
The paper can be viewed at: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201701407
September 16, 2018
Congratulations Drs. Bahar Bilgen, PhD and our former visiting scholar Gokhan Bahcecioglu, PhD, and co-authors for their new publication based on work in our lab. “Hydrogels of agarose, and methacrylated gelatin and hyaluronic acid are more supportive for in vitro meniscus regeneration than three dimensional printed polycaprolactone scaffolds” was published in International journal of biological macromolecules.
The paper can be viewed at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.09.065
