Hard work pays off and now Cullen Tielemans has completed all of the requirements for his MASc degree.
His thesis is titled "The Effects of Methacrylated Glucosamine on the Mechanical Properties of Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels and Gelatin-Methacryloyl/Nanohydroxyapatite Composite Materials."
Well done, Cullen!
Congratulations to Sanaz Hashemi for passing her Comprehensive Exam!
Sanaz is the WCBSL's second PhD student to reach this milesone since 2015 (when Prof. Willett joined the University of Waterloo).
Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Comeau (former postdoc and research associate) for the publication of her recent work on functionalization of GelMA in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering.
Comeau, P.*, Willett, T.L., (2020) A Carbodiimide Coupling Approach for PEGylating GelMA and Further Tuning GelMA and GelMA-nHA Composite Properties. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
Prof. Willett is the Chair of the 2021 meeting of the Canadian Biomaterials Society and is currently serving as President-Elect of the society. He will be the President from 2021 to 2022.
Congratulations to Daniel Dapaah for passing his Comprehensive Exam!
Daniel is the WCBSL's first PhD student to reach this milesone since 2015 (when Prof. Willett joined the University of Waterloo).
Congratulations to Dr. Dibakar Mondal and the team for the paper recently accepted to Materials Science and Engineering - Part C - Materials for Biological Applications. The paper is entitled "Acrylated Epoxidized Soybean Oil / Hydroxyapatite-Based Nanocomposite Scaffolds Prepared by Additive Manufacturing for Bone Tissue Engineering" and it represents the fruits of more than two years of hard work and an excellent collaboration with Prof. Yi-Chin Toh and Dr. Akshaya Srinivasan from the National University of Singapore.
A link to the paper will be added soon.
Congrats to Dr. Patricia Comeau, Dr. Dibakar Mondal and PhD candidate Zahra Haghpanah for having their abstracts accepted for presentation at the largest gathering of biomaterials researchers in the world.
Dr. Dibakar Mondal's first paper as a member of the WCBSL has been accepted to the Journal of the Mechanical Behaviour of Biomedial Materials (JMBBM). This is arguably the best journal for research on the mechanics of biomaterials and tissues (i.e. biomedical materials).
Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Dapaah (PhD candidate in the WCBSL) for his new paper published in Engineering Fracture Mechanics. The paper is entitled "Modelling the micro-damage process zone during cortical bone fracture" and you can find it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106811
Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Comeau for her latest publication entitled: "An Alternative Approach to the Surface Methacrylation of Non-stoichiometric Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles for Use in Bone-Inspired Composites". This paper appears in a special edition of Frontiers in Materials: Polymeric and Composite Materials on Functional Materials for Bio-Applications, and can be found at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2019.00263