Con-current Oral Abstract Presentations Session 3

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Minimally Invasive Cell and Drug Delivery Biomaterials for Posterior Segment Ocular Therapy

S. D. Fitzpatrick, J. M. A. Mazumder, B. Muirhead, H. Sheardown;

McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, CANADA.

Amphiphilic Dendrimer Hydrogels for Enhanced Antiglaucoma Drug Delivery

C. A. Holden¹, P. Tyagi², A. Thakur³, R. Kadam², G. Jadhav², U. Kompella², H. Yang¹;

¹Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, ²Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Denver, CO, ³Univ. of Nebraska Med. Ctr., Omaha, NE.

Coated Hydrogel Device for Controlled Release of Drugs for Cataract Surgery

F. B. Karp, S. Garty, T. T. Shen, B. D. Ratner;

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Investigating Lubricin to Prevent Post-operative Infection of Intraocular Lenses Following Cataract Surgery

G. E. Aninwene, II, E. N. Taylor, A. Mei, G. D. Jay, T. J. Webster;

Brown Univ., Providence, RI.

Tissue Engineered Human Corneal Stromal Tissue

J. Wu, Y. Du, J. L. Funderburgh, W. R. Wagner;

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Design of Silicone Materials for Ophthalmic Applications

C. B. Hu, D. Pham, M. Lowery, R. Jain;

Abbott Med. Optics, Santa Ana, CA.

Phospholipid Delivery from a Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens

W. G. Pitt¹, Y. Zhao¹, D. R. Jack¹, J. L. Nelson², J. L. Pruitt²;

¹Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, ²CIBA VISION Global Res., Duluth, GA.

Optical Transparency and In Vitro Biocompatibility of Recombinant Silk-Elastinlike Protein Polymer

W. Teng¹, J. Cappello², X. Wu¹;

¹Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA.

Biologically Derived Materials

Efficacy Of An Injectable Dual Release Delivery System For Halting Perthes Disease

Y. Zou¹, J. Horstmann¹, T. Milbrandt², V. Talwalkar², D. Puleo¹;

¹Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, ²Shriners Hosp. for Children, Lexington, KY.

A Biologic Scaffold Composed of Skeletal Muscle Extracellular Matrix

M. T. Wolf, K. A. Daly, J. E. Reing, S. F. Badylak;

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Preparation of an Artificial Skin by Replication of Its Structure and Function Using Fibrillogenesis

K. Nam, Y. Sakai, T. Kimura, A. Kishida;

Div. of Biofunctional Molecules, Inst. of Biomaterials and Bioengineering,, Tokyo, JAPAN.

Incorporation of bFGF in an Injectable Pericardial Matrix Gel for Myocardial Tissue Engineering

S. B. Seif-Naraghi, D. Horn, P. Schup-Magoffin, K. L. Christman;

UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Effect of Chemical and Enzymatic Crosslinking of Novel Porous Soy Protein Scaffolds on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Morphology and Growth

K. B. Chien¹, R. N. Shah²;

¹Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, ²Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL.

Towards Molecular Farming of a Human Elastin-like Polymer in Plants

M. Martinuzzi¹, S. Marchetti¹, A. Bandiera², S. Fare³, M. Tanzi³;

¹Università degli Studi di Udine, UDINE, ITALY, ²Università degli studi di Trieste, TRIESTE, ITALY, ³Politecnico di Milano, MILANO, ITALY.

Dynamic Culturing of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Chitosan-Glycosaminoglycan Scaffolds for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering

M. Z. Albanna¹, T. H. Bou-Akl¹, H. L. Walters, III², H. W. T. Matthew¹;

¹Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, ²Children's Hosp. of Michigan, Detroit, MI.

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Comparison of Three Methods of Derivation of a Biologic Scaffold Composed of Adipose Tissue Extracellular Matrix

B. N. Brown¹, J. M. Freund², L. Han², J. P. Rubin², J. E. Reing², E. M. Jeffries², M. T. Wolf², S. Tottey², C. A. Barnes³, B. D. Ratner³, S. F. Badylak²;