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Sarah Southerland and Steven Burcat won the grand prize in the Design of Medical Devices conference for the team's creative pectin application device.

Dr. Yifan Zheng was planning to present "Branch-chain interpenetration of the mesothelial glycoclayx with naturally-occurring biopolymers" at Experimental Biology in San Diego on April 7, 2020.

Christine Byun presented "Optimizing the physical properties of pectin for application as a visceral organ sealant" at the Academic Surgical Congress in Orlando, FL on February 6, 2020.

Dr. Yifan Zheng will be presenting "Branch-chain interpenetration of the mesothelial glycoclayx with naturally-occurring biopolymers" at Experimental Biology in San Diego on April 7, 2020.

Christine Byun presented "Optimizing the physical properties of pectin for application as a visceral organ sealant" at the Academic Surgical Congress in Orlando, FL on February 6, 2020.

Sarah Southerland and Steven Burcat won the grand prize in the Design of Medical Devices conference for the team's creative pectin application device.

Dr. Andrew Servais presented "Pectin-based biopolymer sealants of human pleural injury" at the ACS Meeting in Boston on October 23, 2018.

Our project entitled "Sealing visceral organ injuries with nanoscale glycomaterials" was chosen as a project for the MIT Medical Device Design course (2.75) on August 29, 2018.

Alex Ysasi presented "Multidimensional clustering of regenerative alveolar duct cells after murine pneumonectomy," at the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego on April 24, 2018.

Dr. Andrew Servais presented "Transpulmonary pressuredependent regulation of air leaks after peripheral lung injury," at the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego on April 22, 2018.

Dr. Arne Kienzle presented "Activated mesothelial cells in pleural fluid after lung resection and transplantation," Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego on April 24, 2018.

Dr. Mentzer received the 2018 F. Griffith Pearson Teaching Award.

Christine Byun will be presenting her work at the AMA EXPO Research Symposium on November 15, 2019.

Alex Ysasi presented "Deformation-Induced Ingression of Transitional Pleural Myofibroblasts during Compensatory Lung Growth" at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Chicago on April 25, 2017.

Dr. Andrew Servais presented "Structural Heteropolysaccharide Binding to the Visceral Mesothelial Glycocalyx" at the Experimental Biology Meeting on April 25, 2017 in Chicago.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela presented "Harvest and Imaging of Pleural Mesothelium en face" at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Chicago on April 26, 2017.

Wednesday 3pm (EST, GMT-5) Research Webinar discussing "Work in Progress." Interested participants please contact us for email link (GoToMeeting). September 14, 2011 was our first 3 continent Webinar.

Dr. Neel Patel presented "Development of a toolkit to visualize the components of local junctional forces in lung cells" at the IEEE meeting in Orlando, February 16, 2017.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela presented "Formation of the Elastin Cable Line Element in the Developing Lung" at the ACS Meeting in Washington, DC, October 17, 2016.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela received the NIH Kirschstein-NRSA Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (F32) on July 1, 2016.

Dr. Willi Wagner presented "Characterization of biomaterial-tissue interactions in their 3D context" at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal on, May 18, 2016.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela presented "Epoxide hydrolase inhibition induces an angiogenic response in the chick chorioallantoic membrane" at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, April 4, 2016.

Alex Ysasi presented "Post-pneumonectomy compensatory lung growth is associated with spatially dependent blood-borne myofibroblast recruitment" at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, April 4, 2016.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela received the Mannick Research Award on October 14, 2015.

Dr. Cristian Valenzuela presented "Post Pneumonectomy Septal Retraction and Remodeling are Structural Determinants of Lung Regeneration" at the ACS Meeting in Chicago, October 7, 2015

Dr. Dave Bennett presented "Transriptional Regulation of Post-pneumonectomy Angiogenesis in Peripheral Regeneration" at the ACS Meeting in Chicago, October 7, 2015.

Willi Wagner presented Structural remodeling of the post-pneumonectomy lung is characterized by septal retraction and alveolar duct dilationŽ at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting on March 31, 2015 in Boston, MA.

Dr. Dave Bennett presented Single-Cell Genomics of Post-Pneumonectomy Peripheral Lung Regeneration. Ž at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting on March 31, 2015 in Boston, MA.

Alex Ysasi presented ŽPost-pneumonectomy lung deformation is associated with alveolar Type II cell apoptosis and altered parenchymal mechanicsŽ at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting on March 31, 2015 in Boston, MA.

Dr. Janeil Belle presented "Laser-targeted occlusion of microvessels induces compensatory intussusceptive angiogenesis" at the ACS meeting in San Francisco on October 29, 2014.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Structural and growth effects of diaphragmatic function after murine pneumonectomy" at the ACS meeting in San Francisco on October 28, 2014.

Dr. Dave Bennett presented "Glycoconjugate expression in the tissue engineered lung scaffold after murine pneumonectomy" at the ACS meeting in San Francisco on October 29, 2014.

Dr. Janeil Belle presented "Micromechanical forces trigger tissue-level sprouting and intussusceptive angiogenesis" at the ACS meeting in San Francisco on October 29, 2014.

In memoriam: Professor Moritz A. Konerding died on January 26th in a flight accident on his way home to Mainz. We have lost a friend and colleague. The scientific community has lost an outstanding and passionate scientist who lived his vision of combining research, medicine and the arts.

Dr. Janeil Belle presented "Micromechanical forces regulate vascular patterning in the chick chorioallantoic membrane"Ž (Cardiovascular Biology) at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 26, 2014.

Alexandra Ysasi presented "Sequence of vascular patterning and gene transcription in the chick chorioallantoic membrane" (Cardiovascular Biology) at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 26, 2014.

Willi Wagner presented "Architectural changes of the extracellular matrix in compensatory lung growth" (Development& Growth) at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 27, 2014.

Dr. Robert Bennett presented "Differential lectin labeling pattern in decellularized mouse lung scaffold" (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine) at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego April 27, 2014.

Dr. Konerding presented "Imaging Angiogenesis and Vessel Pattern Formation: Physiological vs Pathological Vascularities" at the Trans-NIH Angiogenesis Workshop on May 20, 2013.

Dr. Mentzer presented "Multiplicative Expansion of the Microcirculation: Intussusceptive Angiogenesis" at the NIH Workshop.

Dr. Kenji Chamoto is the recipient of the 2013 Knudson Research Fellowship Award

Dr. Janeil Belle is the winner of the 2013 Mannick Research Award.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Migration of Blood-borne Regenerative Cells During Post-pneumonectomy Compensatory Lung Growth" at the ACS in Washington.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Scaffolding Effect Of Vascular Distension On Peripheral Lung Mechanics" at the ACS Meeting in New Orleans on February 7, 2013.

Max Ackermann presented "Intussusceptive angiogenesis: an alternative route in tumors, inflammation and wound healing" at the Angiogenesis Meeting in Snowbird, UT, January 16-21, 2012.

Dr. Grace Lee presented "Selective Laser Photocoagulation Manipulates Blood Flow Dynamics in the Microcirculation" at the AAS Congress in February 2012.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Molecular Imaging in the Post-pneumonectomy Lung" at the AAS in Las Vegas in February 2012.

Dr. Mentzer presented at the "Developing Lung Symposium," the UGMLC Lung Center, held in the Waldeck Castle in Germany.

Dr. Grace Lee presented "Selective Manipulation of Blood Flow Dynamics in the Microcirculation" at the ACS Meeting in Chicago on October 3, 2012.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Spatial and Metabolic Consequences of Post-Pneumonectomy Lung Growth" at the ACS Meeting in Chicago on October 2, 2012.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Dendritic Cell Migration to the Post-Pneumonectomy Lung" at the ATS meeting in San Francisco, May 22, 2012.

Drs. Barry Gibney and Kenji Chamoto presented their work at the Harvard Surgical Research Symposium on May 3, 2012.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Molecular Imaging in the Post-pneumonectomy Lung" at the AAS in Las Vegas in February 2012.

Dr. Grace Lee presented "Selective Laser Photocoagulation Manipulates Blood Flow Dynamics in the Microcirculation" at the AAS Congress in February 2012.

Max Ackermann presented "Intussusceptive angiogenesis: an alternative route in tumors, inflammation and wound healing" at the Angiogenesis Meeting in Snowbird, UT, January 16-21, 2012.

Dr. Jan Houdek presented "Post-pneumonectomy lung tissue growth and vessel morphogenesis" at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt.

Dr. Max Ackermann presented "Improvement in wound healing by boosting angiogenesis: studies in normoglycemic and diabetic mice." at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Anatomische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt.

Dr. Kenji Chamoto presented “Regulatory network of angiogenesis gene expression during post-pneumonectomy compensatory growth” at the 2011 ATS Meeting in Denver, CO.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented “Mechanical evidence for microstructural remodeling during post-pneumonectomy lung growth” at the 2011 ATS Meeting in Denver, CO.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented "Mediastinorraphy increases post-pneumonectomy work of breathing" on October 27, 2011 at the ACS Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Congratulations to Dr. Grace Lee as recipient of the John A. Mannick Research Award.

Dr. Kenji Chamoto was awarded the JSPS International Research Fellowship.

Dr. Barry Gibney was recently awarded the John A. Mannick Research Award for Surgical Resident Research for “Mechanical Forces During Neoalveolarizationin a Murine Model of Compensatory Lung Growth.”

Congratulations to Dr. Moritz Konerding for grant award to study alveolar capillary structure and lung angiogenesis at the Swiss synchrotron.

Dr. Mentzer was awarded the F. Griffith Pearson Teaching Award.

Alum Dr. Lino Miele has twins and matches at the University of Pittsburgh for his Plastic Surgery Fellowship.

Dr. Grace Lee was a recipient of  an NRSA F32 Award.

Dr. Kenji Chamoto was awarded the Uehara Fellowship for Research Abroad.

Dr. Barry Gibney presented “Mechanical Evidence for Post-Pneumonectomy Lung Growth” at the SUS Meeting in Huntington Beach, CA.

Alum Dr. Harold Huss (NRSA Recipient) matches in Surgical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Alum Dr. Dino Ravnic (NRSA F32 Recipient), begins Microvascular Surgery Fellowship at Sloan-Kettering.

Alum Dr. Charles West (Vascular Surgery) was recruited to Houston and the Texas Heart Institute.

Dr. Dinee Simpson (NRSA F32 Recipient) presented “SpatialExpression Profling of Particle-Associated Injury in the Developing Rat Lung” at the ACS Meeting in Washington, DC.

Dr. Lino Miele presented “Mesoscopic Traffic Flow Analysis of Platelet Dynamics in Chemically-Induced Colitis” at the AAS Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Grace Lee (NRSA F32 Recipient) a Postodoctoral Fellow Research Award at the Experimental Biology meeting in Washington, DC.

Dr. Dino Ravnic presented “Structural Adaptations Increase Mucosal Capillary Density in Prolonged Murine Colitis” at the SUS Meeting.


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Congratulations to Max Ackermann as he has been awarded the prestigious Rudolf Virchow Prize by the the Deutsche Gesellshaft fur Pathologie.

Dr. Betty Liu presented "Structural heteropolysaccharide adhesion to the corneal glycocalyx" at Experimental Biology in Philadelphia on April 5, 2022.

Matthew Liao presented "Kinetics of plant-derived heteropolysaccharide bioabsorption characterized by a fluorescence-based microfluidics system" at Experimental Biology in Philadelphia on April 5, 2022.

EB presentations

Dr. Betty Liu presents at the American College of Surgeons meeting in San Diego in 2022.

EB presentations

Dr. Willi Wagner addresses the 10th IWPFI International Workshop in Hannover,
Germany: "Multiscale imaging of the human lung."

EB presentations

Max receiving the prestigious Rudolph Virchow Prize
from the German Academy of Pathology.

MIT Grand Prize

Sarah and Steven with their Grand Prize at the Medical Devices Conference on April 25, 2019.

Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner presents 3D imaging of in vivo biomaterials at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress.

Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Silverman present Dr. Valenzuela with his award

Dr. Shapiro and Dr. Silverman present Dr. Valenzuela with his award at the Annual BRI Lung Research day on May 6, 2016.

Cris Mannick Award

Dr. Valenzuela receives the Mannick Research Award from Dr. John Mannick after his presentation on October 14, 2015.

Cris and Dave at ACS

Dr. Bennett and Dr. Valenzuela prior to their talks at the McCromick Center in Chicago, October 7, 2015.

Mannick Research Award

Dr. Bennett receives the Mannick Research Award from Dr. John Mannick after his presentation on October 22, 2014.

The Team in San Diego

The Team celebrated after successful presentations at the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego (April 27, 2014).

Dr. Mentzer

Dr. Mentzer presenting a review of intussuceptive angiogenesis at the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair.

Mannick Research Award

Dr. John Mannick and Dr. Janeil Belle after Janeil's Mannick Research Award presentation on October 23, 2013.

Gordon Research Conference

Dr. Mentzer presented the lab's work on lung growth to the Elastin, Elastic Fibers, and Microfibrils Gordon Research Conference (Biddeford, ME) on July 24, 2013.

The Team at SLS

Mortiz and The Team on September 23, 2012 after setting the SLS TOMCAT beamline record with 288 scans in six shifts.

Max and Chuck Norris

Max and Chuck Norris recently sharing views on adult tissue morphogenesis.

Dr. Gibney

Dr. Gibney presenting at the ACS Meeting.

Dr. Grace Lee and Dr. John Mannick

Dr. Grace Lee and Dr. John Mannick after Grace’s Mannick Research Award presentation on October 14, 2011.