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) Novel biodegradable coronary artery stent; 3) Tissue engineering small diameter blood vessels; 4) Tissue engineering cardiac tissues; 5) Biodegradable aliphatic photoluminescent polymers for tissue engineering and bioimaging; 6) Developing capillary blood vessel network in tissue engineering scaffolds; 7) regulating stem cell fate via functional polymers.

News

10/22/2009		Congratulation to Dipen Gyawali and Richard Tran Their paper titled "Citric acid derived photocrosslinked biodegradable elastomers" was accepted by "Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer edition".
9/15/2009		"Creating a healthy glow". Research news on "Biophotonics" Magazine.
8/17/2009		PNAS paper featured on American Chemical Society (ACS) "Noteworthy Chemistry".
7/29/2009		Dr Yang receives funding from NIH/NIBIB for his biomaterial research.
6/30/2009		Research on The Shorthorn News
6/27/2009		Research on Biodegradable fluorescent polymers was highlighted in "In this Issue" of PNAS
6/25/2009		News release: Breakthrough fluorescent biomaterials to aid disease treatment by UTA and by Metroplex Technology Business Council
6/9/2009 and 6/16/2009		Dr Yang gave a presentation and lab tours to Summer Bridge Camp and Access Camp high school students (9th -12th graders). See Pictures.
6/9/2009		Press Release on PNAS paper by UTA College of Engineering. News release by PNAS (English Version, Chinese Version at Eurek Alert)
4/30/2009		Congratulation! Our manuscript regarding the development of biodegradable photoluminescent polymers was just accepted by prestigious "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America (PNAS)". Congratulation to all contributors.
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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 NIH funded postdoctoral fellow position. Candidates should have previous experience in biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Strong background in biodegradable polymer synthesis and characterization is a must. Experience in cell culture, histology, bioimaging, and small animal studies would be a plus. This is potentially a two-year position. Applications will be reviewed untill the position is filled. Please send your CV to Dr Jian Yang via email: jianyang@uta.edu.

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.