The REdesign Lab is very excited to announce that our most recent publication was accepted in the journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering!

In this work, our lab members developed a new industry scalable tool to derive ECM scaffolds for hydrogel production from porcine heart and vocal fold tissues. The paper is in press and will soon be available online!

The main authors, Dr. Camilo Mora-Navarro and Andreea Badileanu have also worked with the Office of Research Commercialization at NC State to file a Provisional Patent Application (No. 63/024,870) for their invention titled: “Fast Automated Approach for the Derivation of Acellular Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds from Tissues.”

The process just started, but we are very excited about the newly developed system, which will propel  the automated production of ECM hydrogels forward.

Special thanks goes to Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A., the REdesign lab members, and our funding sources: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC017139, R01DC017743).

A paper as a result of a collaboration between the REdesign Lab and the Biotherapeutics Lab (PI: Dr. Ke Cheng) was published as the cover story in this week’s issue of Science Translational Medicine. Acellular cardiac patches were made from porcine heart extracellular matrix and synthetic cardiac stromal cells. These off-the-shelf patches were able to improve repair after myocardial infarction in rats and pigs.

NC State University featured this study in a recent news article.

Additionally, the study was featured in Nature Reviews Cardiology as a Research Highlight!

Citation is below:

Huang K, Ozpinar EW, Tang J, Shen D, Su T, Qiao L, Liang H, Mathews K, Scharf V, Freytes DO and Cheng K. An Off-the-Shelf Artificial Cardiac Patch Improves Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction in Rats and Pigs. Sci. Transl. Med. 12, eaat9683 (2020).

The REdesign Lab is proud to start the year with a new paper acceptance at ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering! Led by Dr. Camilo Mora-Navarro, the study debuts vocal fold lamina propria as a hydrogel and demonstrates its ability to modulate fibroblast activation via TGF-b1.  Our collaborators are from the New York University School of Medicine and the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine.

The citation is below:

Mora Navarro CA, Badileanu A, Gracioso Martins AM, Ozpinar EW, Gaffney L, Huntress I, Harrell E, Enders JR, Peng X, Branski RC, and Freytes DO. Porcine Vocal Fold Lamina Propria-Derived Biomaterials Modulates TGF-b1 Mediated Fibroblast Activation In Vitro. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. Accepted (January 2020).

Congratulations!