2014 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant
Home Department: Bioengineering
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Paul Bollyky, Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Jason Yang's research in Dr. Paul Bollyky's lab focuses on a wound healing model done in mice induced with diabetes. This summer, Jason is bioengineering special hydrogels that can sustainably release cytokines, such as IL-2, on the wound bed.
Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:
Bioengineered Hydrogels for Sustained Release of Interleukin 2 in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds
Jason Yang1, Maria Birukova1, Vivekananda Sunkari1, Paul Bollyky1
[Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine1, Stanford University]