Monthly Archive: August 2017

Lab research featured in Food & Wine, Engineering 360, FierceBiotech and other media outlets! Congrats, Dirk!

August 2017 – Dirk Balkenende’s presentation at the 2017 ACS meeting drew a lot of media attention to the lab’s work developing new materials for fetal membrane sealing. Our work was featured in articles from several publications including those listed below. Great work and excellent science communication, Dirk! American Chemical Society Food & Wine MedGadget …

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Dirk Balkenende presents fetal membrane sealing research in talk at American Chemical Society meeting

August 2017 – Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Diederik Balkenende presented his work developing novel materials for fetal membrane sealing at the ACS meeting in Washington, DC. Congrats to Dirk for his awesome talk!!

Sally Winkler wins Honorable Mention Best Poster at the Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference

July 2017 – Bioengineering PhD candidate Sally Winkler presented her research “Bioinspired materials for fetal membrane presealing” at the 2017 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference in Holderness, NH, and was awarded an Honorable Mention award. Congrats Sally!