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Principle Investigator

Tugba Ozdemir, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

  • Ege University, Bioengineering, BSc

  • The Pennsylvania State University, Bioengineering, MSc, PhD

  • University of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering, Postdoc

  • University of Pennsylvania, Clinical Studies and Advanced Medicine, Postdoc

 

​Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=81-hru4AAAAJ&hl=en

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Current Members

Graduate Level Researchers:

  • Amelia Huffer (PhD Student, NANO/BME, Graduate Research Assistant)

  • Mingyang Mao (PhD Student, NANO/BME, Graduate Research Assistant)

  • Vanessa Smith (MS Student, NANO/BME, Graduate Research Assistant)

Undergraduate Level Researchers:

  • Cruz Franich (Junior, BME, UG Research Fellow)​

  • Grace Neven (Sophomore, BME, UG Research Fellow)

  • Katherine Ballard (Senior, BME, UG Research Fellow)

  • Whitney Ponwith (Junior, BME, UG Research Fellow)

Alumni

Beth Blake, Ozdemir Lab position: Accelerated MSc Student, Current position: Quality Engineer I, Cardiac Devices, Medtronic USA

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Lab Products: 

  • MSc Thesis: Hyaluronic Acid Binding Peptide Directed Extracellular Matrix Assembly to Prevent Fibrotic Capsule Formation, Completed August 2022

  • Publications: 

  1. ​Developing Fibrous Biomaterials to Modulate Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition, (under revision)

  2. Hyaluronic Acid Binding Peptide Regulates Extracellular Matrix Deposition and Diminish Fibroblast Activation, (under preparation)

  • Conference presentations:​

  1. "Hyaluronic Acid Binding Peptide Directed Extracellular Matrix Assembly to Prevent Fibrotic Capsule Formation", Annual Society for Biomaterials Meeting, poster presentation, April 2022, Baltimore, MD

  2. "Hyaluronic Acid Binding Peptide Regulates Extracellular Matrix Deposition and Diminish Fibroblast Activation", Wound Healing Society BPS Meeting, Oral presentation, October 2022, Davis, CA​

  • Awards:

  1. Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Award

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