POLYWednesday, August 22, 2007

8:30 AM-11:40 AM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Grand Ballroom B, Oral
Scaffolds and Matrices for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Applications
Organizers:Benjamin Harrison
James Yoo
Official:Mark E. Van Dyke
8:30 AMProtein biomaterial designs to direct cell and tissue outcomes
Xianyan Wang, Charu Vepari, Leah Abraham, Amanda Murphy, Xiaoqin Wang, David L. Kaplan
9:00 AMBiocompatible and tunable elastic hyaluronic acid hydrogel for adult stem cell differentiation
Florian Rehfeldt, Shenshen Cai, Dennis E. Discher
9:20 AMInorganic-organic hydrogels with tunable properties
Yaping Hou, Katherine R. Regan, Cody A. Schoener, Mariah S. Hahn, Melissa A. Grunlan
9:40 AMToward sequential growth factor delivery from scaffold surfaces
Mara L Macdonald, Nicole Brenner, Girma Endale, Natalia Rodriguez, Robert Langer, Paula T. Hammond
10:00 AMIntermission
10:20 AMOrganic sol-gel chemistry as a flexible synthetic route to tissue engineering scaffolds
Poonam Borgaonkar, Sachin Sharma, Ming Chen, Sankha Bhowmick, Daniel F. Schmidt
10:40 AMAn organocatalytic route to functional and biodegradable hydrogels
Fredrik Nederberg, Russell C. Pratt, Andrew F. Mason, Robert M. Waymouth, James L. Hedrick
11:00 AMSynthesis and characterization of highly crosslinked hyaluronan hydrogels
Newell R Washburn, Sidi A Bencherif, Abiraman Srinivasan, Jeffrey Hollinger, Ferenc Horkay, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
11:20 AMBiodegradable star-shaped PEG-PLLA block copolymer-cholesterol conjugate exhibiting sol-gel transition as an injectable scaffold for tissue engineering
Yuichi Ohya, Koji Nagahama, Tatsuro Ouchi

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007