January 2025
Congratulations, Dr. Aronson for an amazing defense and incredible work in the lab: 1 patent, 11 awards, 9 manuscripts, and 4.5 years of stellar science! Committee members: Joe Zackular, Will Bailis, Andy Vaughan, & Ian Jacobs
December 2024
Happy Holidays
Great job, Ryan, wrapping up the year with your first first-author publication on the age-related remodeling of the vocal fold extracellular matrix during tissue maturation and getting the journal cover!
Congrats Ryan for your travel award to attend the 2024 Keystone Symposium on fibrosis and for an outstanding talk and poster! Great conference with incredibly instructive science and a nice opportunity for a break on the snow
Congrats Huy for graduating in your Masters program, great way to end the year and move on to the next adventure! It was great having you in the lab, we’ll miss you!
February 2024
The torrential rain has not stopped the indomitable Kyra, Hannah, Hagar, Alex, Top, and Joseph from attending the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in Long Beach. Special congrats to Hannah Bonelli, Kyra Smith, and superstar undergraduate student Alexandra Dumas for giving their first ORS talks and to Kyra and Hagar for very well-attended posters! and Double congrats to Alex for winning the best oral presentation for the Meniscus Section!
January 2024
Back-to-school lab event - Karaoke night at Fuji mountain! Welcome to the new lab members, nice wrapping up of a great 2023, great start for an equally awesome 2024!
December 2023
Happy Holidays
September 2023
Congrats to Hannah for being admitted as a fellow to the T32 “Training in Musculoskeletal Research” program!
July 2023
Congratulations to now Dr. Paul Gehret for successfully defending his thesis on “Decellularized Cartilage for Pediatric Laryngotracheal Reconstruction”, first graduating PhD student of the lab!
June 2023
Congratulations to Hannah for passing her qualifying exams with flying colors and for being selected for a T32 fellowship, all in just two days!
December 2022
Happy Holidays!
December 2022
Hannah Bonelli joins the lab from Rowan University. Hannah was awarded the Fontaine Fellowship. Congrats, Hannah!
November 2022
We gave the first invited Departmental talk and have a new postdoc opening!
October 2022
Great job, Alex and Gautham, presenting your research at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting! Your work got so much attention, you made the lab proud!
Congrats to Paul and Irene! Paul won two (!) awards at the annual meeting of the International Society for Biofabrication: the ISBF New Investigator Award and the WFIRM Young Investigator Award. Irene was awarded the ISBF Best Oral Presentation for her research in collaboration between the Gottardi Lab and the Biofabrication Group at the Centro Piaggio of the University of Pisa !
September 2022
Celebrations in lab for securing an NIH R56 grant supporting with $600k the research on Decellularized cartilage and progenitor cells for laryngotracheal reconstruction!
August 2022
Congratulations to Joseph for passing his qualifying exams with flying colors - excellent performance, you made the lab proud!
July 2022
More celebrations in lab for securing a competitive Foerderer Award in collaboration with Dr. Michael Silverman on A Novel Preventative Treatment for Pediatric Subglottic Stenosis, Matthew’s project, and for collaborating with Dr. Karen Zur on her Foerderer Award on Myofibroblast-targeting microparticles to treat pediatric vocal fold scarring, Ryan’s project.
June 2022
Congratulations to Ryan for passing your qualifying exams with flying colors - excellent performance, you made the lab proud!
January 2021
Congrats to Alex for her admission into the prestigious University Scholars program, one of the only 5 sophomores admitted in the whole University!
December 2021
Happy Holidays!
December 2021
Congrats to Kyra for being admitted as a fellow to the T32 “Training in Musculoskeletal Research” program!
November 2021
Joseph is in the news on Winds of Change, University of Guam news, and Penn Blog. We are all very proud of him and excited to have him in the lab!
October 2021
It is great to be back in person for the annual Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting in Orlando - cool talk on our Nano-printed Platform to Study Topology-driven Stem Cell Chondrogenic Differentiation
September 2021
Ryan Friedman and Joseph Lance Casila join the lab from Virginia Tech and the University of Guam, respectively. Ryan was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship and Joseph was awarded the Fontaine Fellowship. Congrats, Ryan and Joseph!
August 2021
Congratulations to Kyra and Matthew for passing your qualifying exams with flying colors - excellent performance, you made the lab proud!
July 2021
And after the talks, here’s the paper on Drug-eluting Endotracheal Tubes for Preventing Bacterial Inflammation in Subglottic Stenosis, great job Matthew and the rest of the team!
June 2021
Best of luck to Soheila for starting her new adventure at Harvard-MGH as a postdoc in Dr. Lagares Lab. You’ve been the cornerstone of the lab and we all miss you so much already! Can’t wait to see all the amazing things you will keep doing!
May 2021
Congratulations to the whole team led by Soheila to push through the finish line our review on Drug delivery to the pediatric upper airway, a great collaborative effort between lab scientist and CHOP ENT physicians!
April 2021
Great job, Matthew! Super well received talk on Drug-eluting Endotracheal Tubes for Preventing Bacterial Inflammation in Subglottic Stenosis at American Broncho Esophageal Association during the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting, and at Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting!
december 2020
Happy Holidays!
November 2020
Matthew Aronson finishes his rotations and joins the lab, welcome Matthew!
October 2020
Dr. Gottardi is awarded the Young Investigator Award from the journal Cells. Tissues, Organs, way to go!
September 2020
New airway reconstruction in vivo study started
August 2020
Kyra Smith joins the lab from the Sgro Lab at Boston University BME and is awarded the Fontaine Fellowship.
Congrats, Kyra!
July 2020
Congratulations to Paul for passing his qualifying exams with flying colors - excellent performance, you made the lab proud!
June 2020
Lab ramp up starts…
…cell culture
…restocking
May 2020
Lily is selected as CHOP Pet of the Week!
April 2020
Paul is awarded the NSF GRFP fellowship. Congrats, Paul!
April 2020
Annamarie is accepted into the Combined Music & Engineering Program at Northwestern University, her top choice. Annamarie, you did amazing in lab, we are all so proud of you!
March 2020
The lab rapidly ramps down activities and shuts down, doing our part in slowing the spread of Covid-19 - WFH with co-workers
March 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Gottardi for election to TERMIS Americas Council!
February 2020
The special issue of Connective Tissue Research on Advances in bioprinting: a toolbox for tissue engineering, guest edited by Dr. Gottardi, has been published!
February 2020
ORS Scientific Communication Committee
Dr. Gottardi rotates off the Scientific Communication Committee of the Orthopaedic Research Society after an amazing annual conference.
“Honored to have served with such an amazing team, I have learnt so much and was humbled by serving the amazing ORS community”, Riccardo Gottardi
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