Biomaterials Design for Regenerative Medicine
Sarah Heilshorn - Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM) and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and (by courtesy) of Bioengineering and of Chemical Engineering
Seed Grant Committee Member, Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Heilshorn's interests include biomaterials in regenerative medicine, engineered proteins with novel assembly properties, microfluidics and photolithography of proteins, and synthesis of materials to influence stem cell differentiation.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Engineering of Lipid Metabolite Pathways as a Spinal Cord Injury Therapy
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 12 - 2024
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Promoting blood-brain barrier integrity after stroke
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 11 - 2022
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: The Metastatic Tumor Microenvironment and Treatment Response in Ovarian Cancer
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 9 - 2018
Other Stanford Bio-X Supported Research
Ninna Rossen: Engineering a tissue-mimicking platform to assess cancer metastasis therapy in vivo
Fellow - Ninna Rossen - 2015
Live-cell confocal microscopy for integration of engineered devices and neuroscience
Equipment Grant - 2013
Research News
Stanford researchers develop new techniques to study a deadly form of ovarian cancer
November 29, 2018 - Stanford News
A particularly deadly form of ovarian cancer is so deadly in part because it is quick to develop resistance to the...
Where bioengineering and stem cell science meet, and thrive
May 21, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Mimicking a stem cells' natural environment in the laboratory is impossible without recent bioengineering...
Artificial muscle fibers help keep muscle stem cells potent in lab
May 30, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Artificial collagen-based muscle fibers and a specialized broth developed under Bio-X affiliated...