Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Supported by: Pitch and Catherine Johnson
Mentor: Emilie Cheung, Orthopaedic Surgery

Evelyna is testing a polyurethane-based polymer with mechanical properties that can be altered to mimic tendon and bone tissue by exposure to different amounts of UV light. She is evaluating the utility of a functionally graded biomaterial for reducing stress concentration at bone-tendon interfaces such as the rotator cuff, and also determining the biological response of cells to the polyurethane.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Novel Tendon Graft for Rotator Cuff Repair

Evelyna Wang¹, Elmer Ker², Angel Mercado², Peter Yang², Emilie Cheung²
[Departments of Materials Science & Engineering¹ and Orthopaedic Surgery², Stanford University]