Welcome

Welcome to the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab at UTA. Our research interests are to investigate the methodology of functional biomaterial development and use the biomaterials as tools to solve unmet clinical problems.

Currently, our research projects include: 1) Development of novel biodegradable elastomers; 2) Tissue engineering small diameter blood vessels; 3) Tissue engineering cardiac tissues; 4) Biodegradable aliphatic photoluminescent polymers for tissue engineering and bioimaging; 5) Developing capillary blood vessel network in tissue engineering scaffolds; 6) regulating stem cell fate via functional polymers; 7) Orthopedic devices and bone tissue engineering; 8) bioadhesion and anti-tissue adhesion.

News

02/02/2012		UTA Maverick College Park grand opening. (Video on Youtube). Yang group research is featured on the video.
12/04/2011		Congratulation to Richard Tran, Michael Palmer, and collaborator Drs. Shou-Jiang Tang and Thomas Abell.. The EMR solution paper was accepted by a leading medical journal in endoscopy, "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy".
11/21/2011		Congratulation to a former high school summer intern, Diane Manry for her paper accepted by "Journal of High School Research". Also congratulation to high school student mentor, Dipen Gyawali.
11/11/2011		Congratulation to Richard Tran for successfully defending his PhD dissertation.
11/03/2011		Rheology study on injectable PEGMC/HA composites was accepted by "Soft Matter".
07/13/2011		The new NaCl porogen paper was accepted by Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. Congratulations to Richard Tran.
07/06/2011		Dr. Yang received a R01 grant from NIH/NIBIB. News on 01/04/12
05/06/2011		Congratulation to Jagannath and Richard. The work on CUPE synthesis and in vivo evaluation was accepted by "Macromolecular Materials & Engineering".
05/01/2011		Michael Palmer recevied an award for his oral presentation in 27th Southern Biomedical Engineerong Conference (SBEC).
04/22/2011		Upcoming seminars: Dr. Yang will give talks at UT Dallas (05/06/11) and Biomaterials Day of Society for Biomaterials at Texas A&M (05/16/11).
04/4/2011		Interview on research in Yang lab. (Interview video included)
03/31/2011		Dr. Yang received formal approval for his tenure and promotion to Associate Professor to be effective on 09/01/2011.
02/26/2011		Dr. Yang received "2011 Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award" from College of Engineering, UTA.
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Highlights

Positions Available

Postdoctoal fellow position (Biomaterials, Cancer Drug Delivery/Bioimaging and Tissue Engineering): Applications are welcome to fill in a postdoctoral fellow position. Candidates should have previous experience in biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Candidates with strong background in biodegradable polymer synthesis and characterization, cell culture, histology, bioimaging, and animal studies are especially welcome. Candidates with strong background in chemistry and physics of fluorescent materials but without bio-background will be given a special consideration. This is potentially a two-year position and can be renewed if mutually agreed. Applications will be reviewed untill the position is filled. Please send your CV to Dr Jian Yang via email: jianyang@uta.edu. (Position filled)

PhD candidates: We always seek highly self-motivated and intelligent PhD students to work on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering projects. Students who have a strong background in any of the following disciplines: bioengineering, chemical engineering, material science engineering, chemistry, biology are all welcome to apply our joint bioengineering program between UT Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.