We are very excited to announce that Dr. Szczesny has received an NSF CAREER award to study how fatigue damage leads to tendon degeneration! Furthermore, this work will help develop teaching methods to improve the recruitment and retention of women in engineering. We are very appreciative of having the opportunity to pursue both the research and educational objectives of this project.
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New Funding from Department of Defense
Very excited to receive funding starting August 2021 from the Department of Defense to identify the cause of poor allograft performance in young active patients!
First Lab Publication
Congrats to Ben Peterson on publishing the lab’s first paper in Acta Biomaterialia back in November 2020! https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1016/j.actbio.2020.09.046
Sabrina Carrozzi Awarded SEN Grant
We are happy to announce that Master’s student Sabrina Carrozzi was awarded a Penn State Student Engagement Network Grant, which will partially fund her thesis research over the summer. Congrats Sabrina!
Seed Funding for New Research Project
Happy to announce that we just received internal seed funding from the Center for Orthopaedic Research and Translational Science to kick-start a new research project investigating the mechanobiology of cells in ACL reconstructions. The findings from this work will provide novel insight into the cause of inferior allograft remodeling post-surgery and could lead to new methods for augmenting ACL reconstruction.
New Pilot Grant Funding
We have received our first extramural grant to support our research! Thank you to the Alliance for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research and Training (AR3T) for a $100k grant to investigate the role of tendon stem cell mechanotransduction plays in tendon degeneration resulting from overuse/fatigue loading.
Welcome to New PhD Student
We are thrilled to have Ben Peterson join our lab as a PhD candidate! Looking forward to seeing the results of his work investigating the role of mechanobiology during late tendon development and how this information can be translated to engineering tendon replacements.
Congrats to Senior Design Team
Congratulations to my senior design team for winning second place on their Capstone Design Project for successfully building a tensile bioreactor! It is well deserved and I am very proud of each of you.
Welcome New Trainees
A warm welcome to our first two trainees: Dr. Yi Lu as a postdoc and Krishna Pedaprolu as a graduate student. Glad to have you on board and can’t wait to get started!