The members of the REdesign Lab are delighted to inform you of a new study, led by PhD candidate Emily W. Ozpinar and former undergraduate research assistant Ariana L. Frey, accepted at Tissue Engineering, Part A! Through a collaboration with the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine, our study explores the use of porcine-derived dermis extracellular matrix hydrogels as a substrate for mast cell viability and maturation. The project has been generously funded by the Comparative Medicine Institute’s Young Scholar Program (YSP) and Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (SIRI), the UNC-CH/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Abrams Scholar Program and the NCSU Office of Undergraduate Research. We thank these funders for their support.
The citation is below:
Ozpinar EW*, Frey AL*, Arthur GK, Mora-Navarro C, Biehl A, Snider DB, Cruse G and Freytes DO. Dermal Extracellular Matrix-Derived Hydrogels as an In Vitro Substrate to Study Mast Cell Maturation. Tissue Engineering Part A. Published Online (October 2020).
*= Co-first authors
Congratulations to all the authors!
