Matthew had Multilayer three-dimensional filter paper constructs for the culture and analysis of aortic valvular interstitial cells accepted in Acta Biomaterialia Xing had Integrating valve-inspired design features into poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel scaffolds for heart valve tissue engineering accepted in Acta

Congratulations to our lab members who will be graduating this May! Hubert Tseng defended his PhD in March (way to go Hubert!) and is now a Senior Scientist at Nano3D Biosciences. Bin Xu completed his MBE in December and will

Congratulations to Hubert, Aditya, and Dena for their manuscripts being accepted for publication! Hubert (and Eric Kim, Patrick, Salma, and Jay Shah) had The tensile and viscoelastic properties of aortic valve leaflets treated with a hyaluronidase gradient accepted for publication in

The lab welcomes 2 new members!  Varun Krishnamurthy is joining our lab as a postdoctoral  fellow. Varun recently defended his PhD from the University of Cincinnati.    Jeanine Buckens is a visiting scholar in the lab for the Fall of

The lab welcomes our new students, Fergus Wong, Yan Wu, Andy Geiszler, Dan Puperi!

The IBB Medical Innovations Award funds new research collaborations between Rice and the Texas Medical Center. Jane, along with Dr. Dan Harrington of Rice and Dr. Henri Justino from Texas Children’s Hospital won for their project, “Testing A Pediatric Stent-Mounted

Way to go Brandi Scully! Brandi was just named one of 6 winners of the Association of Academic Surgery student research award. Hooray! AAS

Congratulations to Dr. Grande-Allen for winning the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association to study the mechanical regulation of proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans and how they regulate other extracellular matrix components as well!

Congratulations and best wishes to lab alumna Zannatul Ferdous as she begins her Assistant Professor career at the University of Tennessee! Faculty Page

Please join or donate to the Grande-Allen Lab Team for the AHA Heart Walk on 11/5/11 at Sam Houston Park, in Houston, TX!