The standard of care for augmenting surgical bone repair or regeneration remains bone graft harvested from the patient despite a lack of sufficient quantity or quality of graft in many […]
Thesis Committee: Karen Winey, Advisor; Daeyeon Lee, Robert Riggleman and Chinedum Osuji
Committee: Karen Winey, Advisor; Daeyeon Lee, Robert Riggleman and Chinedum Osuji
The rheology of polar ice evolves in response to weather and climate changes, by modifying its microstructure. While the experimental evidence for the dependence of rheological properties on the microstructure […]
Committee: Daeyeon Lee and Robert A. Riggleman, Co-advisors; Ravi Radhakrishnan and Zahra Fakhraai
Small-scale robotic systems have emerged as promising tools to perform a wide-range of tasks in microbiology and medicine such as targeted delivery, cell manipulation, environmental monitoring, and microassembly. In order […]
Older adults are forming a much larger percentage of the population leading to a strain in the healthcare sector. It is expected that the population aged 65 and over in […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Dani Bassett are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Andrew Murphy. The public is welcome to attend.
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Eric Granquist and Beth Winkelstein are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Megan Sperry. The public is […]
We will discuss two complementary mechanical models for DNA that deal with, respectively two problems: one, phase transitions in a DNA molecule, and two, allosteric interactions between two ligands bound […]
