Congratulations to Stephanie Bryant, Karin Payne, Franck Vernerey, Robert McLeod & Mike Zuscik, for their AB NEXUS grant entitled “Biophysical Cues Governing Growth Plate Organization: A Computational & Experimental Approach”
New paper out describing Dr. Christopher Erickson’s work on blocking angiogenesis to prevent bony repair tissue formation after growth plate injury. Congratulations Chris! Thank you to the Krebs Lab for developing the alginate-chitosan hydrogels used for delivery of antibody.
VA Program helps veterans transition to medical careers features Shane Weatherford, a lab alumni. Congratulations Shane on being one of the first recipients of the Veterans Healing Veterans Scholarship. We are so proud of you!
Welcome to Brookelynn Punsky, a graduate student in the Department of Bioengineering. Brookelynn will be working on preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis in a skeletally immature animal model, in collaboration with Dr. Jay Albright at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Welcome to Nicholas Rotello-Kuri, an undergraduate student from the MARC U-STAR scholarship program at CU Denver. We look forward to having you in the lab and working with us.
Thank you to Shane Weatherford for his dedication and hard work during the past 2 years! He started in the lab as an undergraduate student and was a research assistant for the past year. He will be moving to South Carolina to attend medical school. Congratulations Shane!
Dr. Christopher Erickson began his postdoc in Dr. Kirk Hansen’s lab at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Chris has led the work on the delivery of anti-VEGF antibody to block bony bar formation after growth plate injury. Thank you for many great years in the lab! Congrats Chris and best of luck!
Drs. Payne, Miller, Bryant and Ferguson were awarded the first part of a NIH Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) to develop a 3D printed biomimetic of growth plate cartilage. This is a multidisciplinary project involving graduate students at both the CU Anschutz Medical Campus and CU Boulder Campus.
The Payne Lab and Bryant Lab were awarded a NIH R21 from NICHD to study a cartilage-mimetic hydrogel and mesenchymal stem cells for growth plate cartilage tissue engineering.
Dr. Payne and her collaborators (Drs. Miller, Bryant, and Ferguson) were awarded a Gates Grubstake Fund to further their research on the development of a 3D printed implant for cartilage regeneration in pediatric growth plate injuries.
Drs. Payne, Miller, Bryant and Ferguson were awarded the R33 phase of a NIH Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) to continue developing a 3D printed biomimetic of growth plate cartilage. Excited to continue this important work with wonderful collaborators!
Congratulations to Chris Erickson for receiving the Mack Clayton Award for Basic Science at the Inaugural Orthopedic Research Symposium at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Congratulations to Chris Erickson for receiving 2 travel awards this month! The AR3T Travel Award to attend Advances in Tissue Engineering 27th Annual Short Course at Rice University and a travel award to attend the 5th Annual Vail Scientific Summit.
The Krebs Lab (PI) and Payne Lab (co-I) have been awarded a NIH R21 from NIAMS to study the impact of biopolymer mechanics and siRNA delivery in growth plate injuries.