{"id":5143,"date":"2017-02-02T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:36:56","slug":"spring-seminar-karen-l-christman-phd-faha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/spring-seminar-karen-l-christman-phd-faha\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Seminar: Karen L. Christman, PhD, FAHA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker:\u00a0Karen L. Christman, PhD, FAHA,
\nProfessor of Bioengineering,
\nJacobs School of Engineering,
\nUniversity of California<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Date:<\/b><\/span> Thursday, February 9, 2017
\n<\/span>Time:<\/b><\/span> 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch
\n<\/b><\/span>Place:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0 Stevenson Center 5326<\/span><\/p>\n

Title:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0 Biomaterials for Treating the Heart<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/b><\/span> Biomaterials have significant potential to treat various cardiac conditions, including both adult and pediatric.\u00a0 In particular, new therapies for myocardial infarction are needed given that heart failure post-myocardial infarction continues to be the leading cause of death in the western world. Biomaterial and tissue engineering approaches to myocardial repair are providing exciting new possibilities. Injectable hydrogels are particularly attractive since they have the potential to be delivered via a minimally invasive, catheter-based approach, thereby reducing risk to the patient.\u00a0 In addition to these minimally invasive materials, hydrogels can also play a role in improving outcomes for cardiac surgery patients.\u00a0 Recent developments and translational progress with hydrogels designed specifically for treating the heart will be discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaker Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dr. Christman<\/a> received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2000 and her Ph.D. from the University of California San\u00a0Francisco and Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Graduate Group in 2003, where she examined in situ approaches to myocardial tissue engineering.\u00a0 She was also a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in the fields of polymer chemistry and nanotechnology.\u00a0 Dr. Christman joined the Department of Bioengineering in 2007 and is a member of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.\u00a0 Her lab, which is housed in the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, focuses on developing novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications, and has a strong translational focus with the main goal of developing minimally invasive therapies for cardiovascular disease.\u00a0 Dr. Christman is a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and has received several awards including the NIH Director\u2019s New Innovator and Transformative Research Awards, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Award, the American Heart Association Western States Innovative Sciences Award, and the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society\u2019s Young Investigator Award.\u00a0 Dr. Christman is also co-founder of Ventrix, Inc., which is in clinical trials with the cardiac extracellular matrix hydrogel technology developed in her lab at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaker:\u00a0Karen L. Christman, PhD, FAHA, Professor of Bioengineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place:\u00a0 Stevenson Center 5326 Title:\u00a0 Biomaterials for Treating the Heart Abstract: Biomaterials have significant potential to treat various cardiac conditions, including both adult and pediatric.\u00a0 In particular, new therapies for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[62,163,165,164,231,157,116],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/03\/19170928\/Christman-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-1kX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}