Bioengineering PhD Candidates Get Expert Feedback on Research |
| Wednesday, 24 March 2010 |
MIT-Portugal Bioengineering Systems faculty leads from both Portugal and MIT were in Cambridge on March 4, 2010, and their presence provided the perfect opportunity for seven third-year candidates in that area’s PhD course to present updates on the leading-edge research they are doing at MIT – to the faculty, as well as to reviewers with expertise on the students’ research topics.
The result was a series of substantive, practical comments about the students’ work – which the students were glad to receive. According to one presenter, David Braga Malta, who is working in the laboratory of MIT Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia, the event was “a unique opportunity to be able to present and discuss our work with an audience full of experts in our area. This is one of the best ways of improving the quality of the work we are developing, given the excellent feedback such an audience provides.”
For MIT Prof. Bruce Tidor, Bioengineering Systems Co-Director, “The presentations provided a terrific opportunity for the students to place their work in the wider context of the MIT-Portugal Program Bioengineering Systems focus. The students rose to this challenge and exceeded our already high expectations.”
Following is a list of the students, faculty advisors and reviewers who participated, and links to several of the presentations:
Daniela Coutinho
MIT/HST advisor: Prof. Ali Khademhosseini
Reviewer: Dr. Shilpa Sant
"Micro-fabrication Strategies to Design Stemcell-Instructive Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications"Daniela Couto
MIT advisor/reviewer: Prof. Charles Cooney
"Opportunities Arising at the Intersection of Technologies in Healthcare" Sofia d'Orey
MIT advisor: Prof. Dava Newman
"Multibody Dynamics and Control of Hybrid Active Orthoses" João Guerreiro
MIT advisor: Prof. Robert Langer
Reviewer: Prof. Daniel S. Kohane
 “Skeletal Muscle Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) via Non-Viral Gene Delivery for Therapeutic Applications”
David Braga Malta
MIT advisor: Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia
Reviewer: Prof. Gregory Underhill
 "Depicting the Bone Marrow Microenvironment Towards the Ex-vivo Expansion of Human Stem Cells"
Isa Monteiro
MIT advisors: Prof. Paula Hammond; Prof. Robert Langer
Reviewer: Prof. Daniel S. Kohane
Topic: Using stemcell engineering and regenerative medicine approaches for looking at skin tissue-like constructs aimed at enhancing new tissue functionality, and new solutions for treating skin burns and ulcers.
Ana Lúcia do Rosário
MIT advisor: Prof. Li-Huei Tsai
Reviewer: Froylan Calderon, PhD
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