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July 2008:
Congratulations to Kristen Wieghaus, who was married to Sean Quinn on July 5 in Princeton, New Jersey!
Congratulations to Lauren Sefcik, Caren Petrie Aronin, and Kristen Wieghaus for their recent publication: Sefcik LS, Petrie Aronin CE, Wieghaus KA, Botchwey EA. Sustained release of sphingosine 1-phosphate for therapeutic arteriogenesis and bone tissue engineering. Biomaterials. 2008 Jul;29(19):2869-77. Epub 2008 Apr 11.
June 2008:
Congratulations to Lauren Sefcik and Rebekah Neal for their recent publication: Sefcik LS, Neal RA, Kaszuba SN, Parker AM, Katz AJ, Ogle RC, Botchwey EA. Collagen nanofibres are a biomimetic substrate for the serum-free osteogenic differentiation of human adipose stem cells. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2008 Jun; 2(4):210-20.
Congratulations to Lauren Sefcik for receiving the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled: Therapeutic Role of Sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in microvascular remodeling!
Congratulations to Caren, Lauren, and Kristen for acceptance to the Society for Biomaterials Annual Fall Meeting in September with oral and poster presentations.
Congratulations to Caren, Lauren, and Rebekah for acceptance to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Annual Meeting in October with oral presentations.
May 2008:
Congratulations to Dr. Caren Petrie Aronin on her successful Dissertation Defense on May 5! She accepted an offer from Rocky Tuan to postdoc at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, where she will start in August.
Dr. Botchwey presented the lab’s research in both oral and poster presentations at the World Congress for Biomaterials in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
April 2008:
Congratulations to Caren Petrie Aronin for her recent publication: Petrie Aronin CE, Sadik KW, Lay AL, Rion DB, Tholpady SS, Ogle RC, Botchwey EA. Comparative effects of scaffold pore size, pore volume, and total void volume on cranial bone healing patterns using microsphere-based scaffolds. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2008 Apr 28. [Epub ahead of print]
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Wieghaus on her successful Dissertation Defense on April 22!
Congratulations to Lauren Sefcik for receiving the UVA Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Congratulations to Kristen Wieghaus for winning 1st place overall at the UVA Engineering Research Symposium and for receiving the Mary and Otis Updike Professional Development Award!
March 2008:
Congratulations to Caren Petrie Aronin and Lauren Sefcik for their recent publication: Petrie Aronin CE, Cooper JA Jr, Sefcik LS, Tholpady SS, Ogle RC, Botchwey EA. Osteogenic differentiation of dura mater stem cells cultured in vitro on three-dimensional porous scaffolds of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) fabricated via co-extrusion and gas foaming. Acta Biomater. 2008 Mar 18. [Epub ahead of print]
February 2008:
Leap Day was a banner day for Lauren Sefcik as she received both the Dissertation Year Fellowship, awarded by the University of Virginia Faculty Senate and an offer of an Assistant Professorship in Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College!!!! Look for her there starting July 1, 2009! Congrats to Lauren!
Congratulations to Lauren Sefcik on her successful Ph.D. Proposal Defense on February 20!
December 2007:
Rebekah’s work on laminin nanofibrous substrates was presented by undergraduate researcher Trey McCluggage at the American Society for Cell Biology, 47th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., December 2, 2007.
November 2007:
Congratulations to Rebekah Neal, who was married to Greg Hensley in Richmond, VA, on November 3, 2007.
October 2007:
Congratulations to Peter Rios for competing in the technical paper competition for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in Philadelphia, PA.
Congratulations to Kristen Wieghaus for her recent publication in Tissue Engineering along with BME collaborators Jason Papin and Erwin Gianchandani. The paper was selected by the journal's editors as an "Editor's top pick - hot paper."
Congratulations to Dr. Botchwey, who as a co-PI was awarded a research grant from the Emerging Frontier’s in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program of the National Science Foundation.
September 2007:
Congratulations to Caren Petrie Aronin, Rebekah Neal, Lauren Sefcik, and Kristen Wieghaus on their conference presentations this fall at BMES in Hollywood, CA.
August 2007:
Congratulations to Caren Petrie Aronin on her recent publication in J Biomed Mater Res A.
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