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Our collaborative work with Dr. Ashu Agarwal’s and Dr. Buchwald’s team at the University of Miami was recently published in the journal Lab on a Chip. This work, led by Dr. Agarwal’s postdoctoral fellow Dr. Lenguito, highlights the engineering of fluidic platforms for islet interrogation and is the first step in our research in engineering optimal culture devices for islets and beta […]

Even our islets are sharing in the love today. Kerim Gattas-Asfura (Research Assistant Scientist) and Nicholas Abuid (graduate student) took this photo of an islet encapsulated in a nanothin polymer (the red color comes from the labeled polymer) that serves to protect it from immune recognition and attack

Jaime Giraldo lead our recently published study, a collaborative effort between our lab and Dr. Antonello Pileggi’s team, examining the impact of polymeric surface engineering on masking immune recognition and the complementary effects of short-course immunotherapy. Jaime found a strong immunoprotective benefit using this simple PEGylation coating, as well as a synergistic impact when paired […]

Kaiyuan Jiang, along with Jessica Weaver (alumni of lab), Yangjunyi Li and Xiogjian Chen (MS students in lab), and Jiapu Liang (PhD student in lab), recently published their findings on the impact of local delivery of dexamethasone, a potent anti-inflammatory agent, on improving islet engraftment in the journal Biomaterials. Kaiyuan found that the local release of […]

Congratulations to Maria Coronel for the successful defense of her Doctoral dissertation “Engineering an In Situ Oxygen Generating Biomaterial for Extrahepatic Islet Transplantation”! We look forward to great things from Dr. Coronel!    

The Stabler Lab had a great meeting with their collaborative team on the NIH CHIB grant (Drs Agarwal and Stabler), as well as the other teams on the consortium, in Philadelphia on Oct 27th. The team presented their findings and demonstrated their devices to the rest of the NIH CHIB consortium members.  

We are happy to welcome two new PhD students to the Stabler lab team! Sydney Wiggins and Smit Patel have joined this lab this month after joining the UF BME PhD department in the Fall of 2016. Look for amazing work coming from these fantastic new additions!      

Stabler will be presenting her work at the 2016 Southeast Biomaterials Day on October 14th at Georgia Tech. As highlighted on the website, “This all-day research conference organized by Georgia Tech’s Student Chapter of the Society for Biomaterials is designed to build regional biomaterials  networking opportunities by inviting attendees from surrounding schools, industry, and government”.

The Stabler lab will be presented some of their research at the 2016 BMES National Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Plus, UF BME will have a great booth for relaxing and learning more about our department, so feel free to stop by! Stabler Presentations: Nicolas Abuid will be presenting a talk entitled “Engineering Antioxidant Nanoscale Layer-by-Layer Coatings […]

Our laboratory was recently awarded a new grant from the JDRF on engineering scaffolds for islet transplantation. This grant, in collaboration with the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, will focus on engineering highly translational platforms for housing islets for implantation. The Stabler lab will seek to improve on the PDMS scaffold base implant by incorporating drugs (for local […]