Bioengineering graduate students receive travel grants from the Graduate School!

Bioengineering graduate students, Melissa Laughter, David Lee, and Anna Laura Nelson have each been awarded a $500 Travel Grant from the Graduate School to present at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC on April 15-18, 2015.

• David be presenting on functional recovery following peripheral nerve injury using a biomimetic polymer conduit.
• Melissa will be presenting on a Heparin-mimicking reverse thermal gel for the treatment of myocardial ischemia.
• Anna Laura will be presenting on an Optimization of the morphology of multifunctional mesoporous silica nanoparticles to increase therapeutic and diagnostic effects in breast cancer.