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Richard and Loan Hill Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Pharm. and Reg. Med., and Orthopaedics at the University of Illinois

Chicago, Illinois
Joined February 2012
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Ding A, Tang F, Alsberg E. 4D printing: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, stimuli, design, and emerging applications. Chemical Reviews, 2025. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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Honored to be interviewed as part of this 'Inspiring Academic Female Founder' interview series!
We're back with another interview in our inspiring academic female founder series! 🔬🧬👩‍🔬 This time we talked with Melissa Krebs, Ph.D., (@KrebsLab) CEO & Founder of GelSana and Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Read Melissa's story 👇oup.vc/founders-blog/intervi…
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A single-component jammed micro-flake hydrogel is developed as a cell laden ink for 4D bioprinting The 🦈fin was printed as is part of experiments that show easy 3D-3D shape morphing @tissue_engineer @BIOENGatIL Read the article: ow.ly/gJRy50HYOJB
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Eben Alsberg retweeted
4D biofabrication via instantly generated graded hydrogel scaffolds sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @tissue_engineer
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'Is This Patriot Enough?': Asian American Official Shows Military Scars,... youtu.be/zTJa_SwHcTE via @YouTube
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Excited to have just received a copy of my close friend Christina Consolino's book "Rewrite the Stars"! Get your copy now! christinaconsolino.com/books… amzn.to/3rYbiXW #womensfiction #2021debuts #PTSD #marriage #booklovers #WritingCommunity @cmconsolino
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Our latest paper led by @JessieNulty is out in @ActaBio 3D Bioprinting of Prevascularised Implants for the Repair of Critically-Sized Bone Defects sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Its the latest paper from our @ERC_Research project JointPrinting & another collaboration w @tissue_engineer
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Pleased to share a new paper on 4D materials that undergo multiple and reversible shape changes to produce structures that resemble those during morphogenesis. (only possible through strong efforts of Aixiang Ding, @jeon9301, Yu Bin Lee and Sang Jin Lee) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Shape-shifting 4D materials provide new opportunity for tissue engineering @UICEngineering @tissue_engineer @UICPharmacology Find out more in the news highlight 👉 ow.ly/4n3u50DMNhf
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Thrilled to share our recent work on cytocompatible, biodegradable 4D hydrogels with high cell density for spatiotemporally tunable shape-changing. Kudos to Yu Bin Lee, Oju Jeon, Sang Jin Lee, Aixiang Dang & Derrick Wells! doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2020101… @jeon9301
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This paper was a real collaboration with @tissue_engineer and the entire @dannykelly1978 team! Funded by @ERC_Research and my @IrishResearch postdoctoral fellowship!
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Super excited about @UFBME recruiting 2 new assistant profs!!
*Please Retweet* @UFBME is looking to hire 2 tenure-track Assistant Professors - one in data science and one in cell/molecular engineering. Come join us! Priority application date Oct 1. See ad below. I am chairing the search committee. Feel free to direct any questions to me.
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Thank you, Matt Levy and team, for making this work on tethering RNA within hydrogels possible! Great job, Khanh, Truc and Alex! today.uic.edu/high-tech-gel-… advances.sciencemag.org/cont…
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Please check out our new work out today in Materials Horizons on bioprinting with an cell only bioink (no carrier material), and a strategy that permits the formation and maintenance of 3D constructs with complex geometries. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Thrilled to share our recent collaborative work with Joel Boerckel's group, Danny Kelly and Mark Grinstaff! This is the culmination of huge efforts by all of the members of our teams, with Anna McDermott and Samuel Herberg leading the charge! stm.sciencemag.org/content/1… #boerckellab
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