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DESCRIPTION:Biomedical Engineering Seminar\n\nYi Hong\nAssistant Professor\
 , Bioengineering Department \nUniversity of Texas at Arlington\n\nAbstract:
  Cardiovascular disease is the top 1 killer in the worldwide. Biomaterial b
 ased tissue repair/regeneration approaches have been widely utilized to man
 age heart infarction and vascular diseases. Due to softness and elasticity 
 of heart muscle and blood vessels\, biodegradable elastic materials have ga
 ined interests as cardiac patches or vascular grafts. Biodegradable polyure
 thane\, a typical elastic polymer\, has been pro-cessed into porous scaffol
 ds as heart patches to treat heart infarction\, and also tubular scaffolds 
 as vascular grafts to replace blood vessels. Polyurethane based cardiac pat
 ches increased infarcted rat/pig heart thickness and reduced infarction are
 a with heart function improvement. The acellular or cellularized vascular g
 rafts were implanted to replace rat abdominal aorta\, and exhibited enhance
 d patency with good tissue remodeling. Based on those cardiovascular applic
 ations\, polyurethanes were further designed to be functional having con-tr
 olled degradation\, tunable mechanical properties\, and other biofunctions.
  These newly developed polyure-thanes also have opportunities to be applied
  for cardiovascular engineering. \n\nBio: Dr. Yi Hong is an Assistant Profe
 ssor in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlingt
 on. He achieved his PhD in Material Science and Engineering in 2005 at Zhej
 iang University\, Hangzhou\, China. And then Dr. Hong worked as a postdoc a
 nd later as a Research Assistant Professor in the McGowan Institute for Reg
 enerative Medicine in the University of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2012. After
  joined in UTA in 2012\, his research focuses on developing functional and 
 bioactive biodegradable soft materials and transla-tional research for tiss
 ue repair and regeneration\, drug delivery and bio-imaging applications wit
 h emphasis on cardiovascular disease treatment. He has published over 60 pe
 er-review papers in the field of biomaterials\, and 10 patents as well as o
 ver 100 conference abstracts. He received NSF CAREER award in 2016\, and wa
 s elected as a Fellow of American Heart Association in 2017. His research h
 as been funded from AHA\, NSF\, NIH\, ONR and CPRIT.
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DTSTART:20170922T190000Z
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LOCATION:Minerals and Materials Engineering Building (M&M)\, U113
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SUMMARY:Developing Biodegradable Elastic Materials for Cardiovascular Disea
 se Management
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URL:https://events.mtu.edu/event/developing_biodegradable_elastic_materials
 _for_cardiovascular_disease_management
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