Huge congrats to Karen and Yuqi on their graduation! We are lucky to have both of them staying at Penn as Karen finishes her MD/PhD and Yuqi joins the PhD program in the fall!

We did it 🥳! Congratulations to Yuqi Zhang on getting her master's degree! Can't wait to keep doing science together over the next couple years Mauck Lab

Honored to receive this award and thanks Penn Bioengineering for the highlight!

The Department of #PennBioengineering and Robert Mauck are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Elisabeth A. Lemmon.
'Biologic Delivery to Preserve Joint Health and Promote Tissue Repair'
May 28, 2024
10:00 AM
Mauck Lab @PennVet Penn Medicine
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I am excited to share that my PhD defense is scheduled for May 28th! My thesis journey spans micro to macro, ranging from cell mechanobiology to large animal meniscus injury models, and concludes with a pilot clinical trial in companion canines. DM me for zoom details 👩‍🔬🔬🐕

Thank you to everyone who made the 3rd annual VA CARE-AP consortium workshop a great success! Lots of fun sharing ideas for the future of Osteoarthritis research! #VAresearch #osteoarthritis

How do cells find their way? @KarenLXu et al developed a hydrogel that guides rapid 3D migration, providing insights into cellular behavior and tissue repair processes. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Honored to be able to kick off the Penn Cartilage Repair Symposium with ScanzelloLab & Dr. Liane Miller ✨
- Providing our 3 different perspectives of the ‘Red Knee’

Super excited to see our recent opinion article now online in Trends in Biotechnology, 'Physical-property-based patterning: simply engineering complex tissues.'

Thank you to Robert Mauck & Molly Stevens for your insights and suggestions with this piece.

Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1i~FTc9XEnJ~i

Congratulations on an awesome talk, @SungYeon___Kim!

Does your back hurt? Curious to know why? You’re in luck! In the newest edition of the ORS Ask the Experts Interview Series, we explore the causes of back pain, current clinical approaches, and ongoing research aimed at improving patient care.
ors.org/ask-the-expert…

CReATE Motion is led by Robert Mauck (@MauckLab), Carla Scanzello (@ScanzelloLab), and Hicham Drissi (@DrissiLab), in a collaboration between the Philadelphia and Atlanta VA's.

The Secretary Denis McDonough Denis McDonough officially opens the CReATE Motion Center VA Philadelphia, offering hope for Veterans with osteoarthritis through advanced treatments designed to avoid joint replacements and improve quality of life.
Read more: news.va.gov/press-room/va-…

We are beyond excited to launch the CReATE Motion Center, to advance novel treatments for osteoarthritis in Veterans! Link and thread below:

Karen Xu from the BurdickLab in collaboration with the Mauck Lab and others develop bicontinuous hydrogels with microtracks to elicit rapid cell migration in 3D. #BiotechNatureComms

nature.com/articles/s4146…

VolkLabUPenn Congrats Tiffany Wu!!! the 1st co-mentored (@MauckLab - VolkLabUPenn) VMD-PhD won the 1st prize RO Davies award at the PennVet student research day. This kicks off our new MPI R01 with Lin Han Lin Han Han lab. #DreamTeam

🚨 New publication alert (and also my first one 🥳) out now in Nature Communications. We highlighted the phenomenon of extracellular microinterfaces (via bicontinuous hydrogels) supporting rapid 3D cell migration (1/X):

LINK: nature.com/articles/s4146…

#OpenAccess #Biopolymers

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Congratulations to Dr. Karen Xu on an outstanding PhD defense yesterday!! We are SO proud of everything you’ve accomplished in the Mauck lab and excited to see what’s ahead !🎉🥳🧫🥂

A novel insight from a new #JBMR article advances our knowledge of previously understudied joint tissues and provides new directions for drug discovery to treat joint disorders Robert Mauck Ling Qin

Read more here: ow.ly/pYVb50QJomL

Generating AF-like cells from iPSCs! Learn more about guiding human induced pluripotent stem cells toward an annulus fibrosus-like fate for cellular delivery strategies in the recent publication in JOR Spine! @maucklab Ana P. Peredo, PhD
#ORSSMC
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