Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Supported by: Anonymous Donor
Mentor: Sarah Heilshorn, Materials Science & Engineering

Kaz Lewis’s research will explore the effects of novel biomaterials for use in treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). Specifically, he is testing the hypothesis that a particular set of hydrogels developed by the Heilshorn lab have the ability to increase tissue sparing, ingrowth of endogenous cells, and also improve behavioral outcomes in an SCI rodent model.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2015:

Injectable, Long-Term Two Component Hydrogels for Spinal Cord Regeneration

Kaz Lewis¹, Karen Dubbin¹,  Lei Cai¹, Laura Marquardt¹, Vanessa Doulames², Giles Plant², Sarah Heilshorn¹
[Departments of Materials Science & Engineering¹ and Neurosurgery², Stanford University]