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Our recent work on creating "Genetically Encoded XTEN-based Hydrogels with Tunable Viscoelasticity and Biodegradability for Injectable Cell Therapies" found its way to the cover of Advanced Science (@AdvSciNews)! Coiled-coils FTW! Paper here: doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…

It has been wonderful hosting Oksana Dudaryeva as a Visiting Scholar in our lab (from rlevato's group) for the last 4+ months. Simply amazing that the 3 of us could meet in person alongside rlevato + Jos Malda's Summer School on "3D Printing & Biofabrication" in Utrecht! 🎉

Elizabeth Nance named in the 2024 Controlled Release Society College of Fellows (Controlled Release Society)! Professor Nance’s exciting engineering research aims to develop effective nanotherapeutics for the underserved neonatal and pediatric populations. cheme.washington.edu/news/article/2… UW Engineering

How fantastic it was to have had Mag Ho (currently wrapping up her PhD in Almquist Lab at Imperial College London) as a Visiting Scholar and @Royalcom1851 Fellow in our group over the last 4 months! She will be hugely missed here in UW Chemical Engineering/UW Bioengineering!

📢Enjoy Extended Early Bird Rates Until 8/23!📢You will not want to miss out on two days of incredible plenary talks, informative sessions and poster presentations, and invaluable networking opportunities! bit.ly/3Qk7HjK #biomaterials

Please join us for the Society for Biomaterials (SFBiomaterials)'s inaugural Northwest Symposia here in Seattle University of Washington on Sept. 19-20, 2024! Exciting speakers, posters, social, & networking. Early bird registration ends THIS FRIDAY (8/23). Register here: biomaterials.org/2024-regional-…

Belated congrats to DOCTOR Brizzia Munoz Robles on successfully defending her UW Bioengineering thesis work on controlling 4D cell fate using photoactivatable proteins! What an exciting set of stories that she has been involved with! Now on to bigger and better things! 🎉

Looking forward to having Dr. Aakanksha Jha (Aakanksha Jha, Erika Moore lab alum) as a new @InvestScholars postdoc in our group, working jointly with @Lawlorlab on using engineered biomaterials to study and treat Ewing Sarcoma. Here we go! 🎉

PUMPED that our paper "Stepwise Stiffening/Softening of and Cell Recovery from Reversibly Formulated Hydrogel Interpenetrating Networks" is live at Advanced Materials (@AdvSciNews). 📜: doi.org/10.1002/adma.2… Thanks to Irina for leading us! UW Bioengineering UW Chemical Engineering ISCRM at UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute

Want to photorelease proteins from biomaterials w/o exogenous light? Use BRET! "Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET)-Mediated Protein Release from Self-Illuminating Photoresponsive Biomaterials" is live J. Am. Chem. Soc.! 📜:doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4… Congrats Teresa Rapp!

We're just ONE WEEK AWAY from the Society for Biomaterials (SFBiomaterials)'s inaugural Northwest Symposia here in Seattle University of Washington on Sept. 19-20, 2024! Exciting speakers, posters, panel, social, & networking! Registration is still open! biomaterials.org/2024-regional-… Come join the fun!

Join us this Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 3pm EST for a #TissueTalk with University of Washington Prof. Cole DeForest on “User-programmable hydrogel biomaterials to probe and direct 4D stem cell fate.” See you there: bit.ly/tissuetalks

Huge congrats to Kun-Lin Wu whose UW Chemical Engineering Master's thesis work/manuscript in our lab received RSC Advances's "Outstanding Student Paper Award 2023" for the Materials Chemistry category! 🎉 Be sure to check out the paper, too: doi.org/10.1039/d3ra04…

Excited to see our latest manuscript, entitled "Light-based fabrication and 4D customization of hydrogel biomaterials" is now LIVE at Nature Reviews Bioengineering! Read for free here: rdcu.be/dVggd Congrats to Irina Kopyeva (UW Bioengineering) and Ryan Brady (UW Chemical Engineering)! This was a fun one!

Looking forward to working with and helping expand the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute community in this new role!

Absolutely thrilled that my recent sabbatical host, collaborator, backcountry ski partner, and friend - the one and only David Baker from the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design Institute - for winning the 2024 #NobelPrize for "computational protein design"! What an amazing ride!

Come be our new faculty colleague - we're hiring this year at UW Bioengineering! Great department, stupendous science, awesome location, and amazing people!

Happy Halloween! 👻 A patterned arrangement of photos, each of an analytical balance/scale that is colored gray? Or, perhaps... a "grayscale photopattern"? (costume inspired by our lab's recent work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…)

Professors often tell graduate students that “Your PhD is a #marathon, not a sprint”. Having now run the 2024 UW Medicine Seattle Marathon (many years after finishing a PhD), I now actually feel qualified to make such a statement. UW Medicine

Happy Holidays from the DeForest Lab! What fun to celebrate the group’s 2024 achievements, especially in the baking sector. Our annual dessert bake-off competition was a tasty success!