Category: Featured

Dr. Desmond Schatz, President of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Professor and Medical Director of the UF Diabetes Institute, gave an inspirational talk entitled “Confronting the Invisible Disease” at the National ADA meeting in New Orleans last week. This is what drives us every day to keep pushing to find a long-term solution to this […]

The Stabler team is heading to Vancouver, Canada for the 2016 World BIomaterials Congress on May 17-22nd! Be sure to attend the New Frontiers Symposium: Next-generation biomaterials for islet delivery and engraftment for diabetes, co-organized by Dr. Stabler, Dr. Garcia (GT), and Dr. deVos (University Medical Center Groningen).

Congratulations to Jaime Giraldo, a recent PhD graduate from Stabler’s lab, on his appointment to Scientist in the Discovery Research Division of the JDRF! He will be assisting in reviewing new research proposals, management of existing funded projects, and exploration of new funding opportunities. Best of luck Jaime!  

Congratulations to Maria Coronel for being elected to the position of Treasurer on the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) Student and Young Investigator AM Section (SYIS)! Dr. Stabler was also recently elected to the Membership Committee for TERMIS-AM, where she also serves on the Continental Council.  

The Stabler-Agarwal-Ricordi team hosted the 1st Annual Consortium of Human Islet Biomimetic (CHIB) Annual Meeting in Miami on Dec 3-4th. This meeting brought together the groups funded by this consortium, which is a part of the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN), to present progress and discuss common challenges and objectives. Dr. Stabler, Dr Chaimov and Dr. Gattás-Asfura were in […]

Congratulations to Maria Coronel and Anthony Frei who both won Scientific Awards from the Cell Transplantation Society at the IPITA-CTS-IXA World Congress in Melbourne Australia! Maria, Anthony (and Kaiyuan Jiang) all gave fantastic presentations and the rest of the attending lab members (Debbie Chaimov and Irayme Labrada) also enjoyed this strong conference (and the great location).       

The Stabler team is heading to Melbourne, Australia for the 2015 IPITA-CTS-IXA World Congress on October 7-10, 2015. Members of the Stabler lab will be given oral and poster presentations, with: Dr. Stabler will be giving an invited lecture entitled “Layer-by-layer Encapsulation of Bioactive Polymers for Islet Encapsulation” during the JDRF Lunch Symposium: Islet Encapsulation on Monday […]

The 2015 BMES Conference will be held in Tampa, FL on October 7-10, 2015. Members of the Stabler lab will be given oral and poster presentations, with: Kaiyuan Jiang will be giving a talk entitled “Localized Low-Dose Release of Corticosteroid from Macroporous Organosilicone Scaffolds” on Thursday at 9:15 am in the “Inflammation and Immunomodulation in Tissue Engineering […]

The 4th World TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine) conference will be held in Boston, MA on September 8-11, 2015.  Join the Stabler lab at the “Immunoprotection and tissue engineering strategies for type 1 Diabetes” session on Thursday, Sept 10th at 10:30pm, where we will present some of our findings, as well as some great […]

Our recent publication on engineering an “infectious” Treg biomimetic was featured as an Editor’s Choice in Science Translational Medicine. The article, entitled “Contagious Biomaterials” highlights the potential impact of our studies in generating tolerance microenvironments for foreign cell grafts. Congrats to senior author Ethan Yang and the rest of the Stabler team, as well as our […]