FIRST Fellow - Sarah Stabenfeldt, Ph.D.



	Sarah Stabenfeldt, Ph.D. Emory University School of Medicine-Georgia Institute of Technology The Wallace H.Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Mentor: Thomas H. Barker, Assistant Professor Teaching Mentor: Larry Blumer, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Morehouse College

Education B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2002 Ph.D., Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2007 3rd year FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007 - present

Research Statement I am working with Dr. Thomas Barker of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech and Emory University. The primary goal of my project is to investigate fibrin matrix formation and characterize protein-protein interactions. Ultimately, I will utilize this information to develop biomimetic matrices for studying morphogenesis in vitro.

Recent Publications Johnson, P. J., Skornia, S. L., Stabenfeldt, S.E., Willits, R.K. (2008) Maintaining bioactivity of NGF for controlled release from PLGA using PEG. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 86A(2): 420-427. Cullen, D. K., Stabenfeldt, S. E., Simon, C.M., Tate, C.C., LaPlaca, M.C. (2007) In vitro neural injury model for optimization of tissue-engineered constructs. J Neurosci Res, 85(16): 3642-3651. Stabenfeldt, S.E., Garcia, A.J., LaPlaca, M.C. (2006) Thermoreversible laminin-functionalized hydrogel for neural tissue engineering. J Biomed Mater Res A., 77(4):718-25.

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