Special birthday present today: paper drop! 🎉 Excited to share our latest work, out in Advanced Healthcare Materials for eardrum repair. This work led by Paul Gehret is one of the closest from the lab to clinical translation to help patients. 🔗 lnkd.in/eqCSgU3f

Happy holidays from the Gottardi Lab!

Awesome job of the lab junior undergrad Yashna Gupta during her 2 talks at BMES annual meeting. Great work on understanding vocal fold scarring and developing new targets & drug delivery approaches to prevent fibrosis in the vocal folds! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

Great job Yixiao Zhao during your #BMES annual meeting talk on the response of macrophages to decellularized ECM in vitro and in vivo, all of your hard work is paying off! The lab that snatches you for your PhD will be so lucky to have you! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

Come see the Gottardi Lab talks at #bmes ! Amazing work from Yiaxiao at 8:30 on macrophage response to dECM and by Yashna at 9:30 and 4:45 on drug delivery to heal vocal folds. Yixiao is on the PhD market, come check out his talk! @pennengineering.bsky.social

Congratulations Dr. Ryan Friedman👨‍🎓 for an outstanding defense! I am so very proud of you & so excited how advanced our understanding of vocal fold disorders and developing drug delivery approaches for vocal fold treatment! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

Great job Rayna in passing your qualifying exam with flying colors, so proud of you! @chopresearch.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social #proudPI

Look who's graduating soon... @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

Great job Kyra, bringing this work through the finish line! This is a story that started a few years back when Gio' visited my lab to test how different micropore dimensions in a polymeric scaffold preferentially support chondrogenesis vs. osteogenesis pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congratulations to both Isabella and Eva for passing your Bioengineering Qualifying Exams, so proud of you both! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

Thanks for the highlight! Such an exciting project with the potential to impact patients!

Great experience speaking at the ATíO conference on our translational cartilage repair from knee to throat, to ear, and back to the knee. Thanks to Tobias Winkler for the invitation and to Arthur Charlet for his prodding questions! (Got an "Italian hand" going off on its own in the picture...)

conference #eors2025 in Davos with an invited presentation of our postdoc Carlos Peniche Silva on #miRNA in #tendon in conjunction with #mechanosensing. Thanks to Roberto di Gesu and @ricgottardi.bsky.social for the invite and organization. @merln-um.bsky.social

Go @amilangscience.bsky.social! Great talk at #eors2025 from in vitro models to in vivo and back in vitro to study fracture healing and the role of vasculature! @umich.edu @jboerckel.bsky.social

Fantastic job, Hagar - Your presentation today at the annual CiPD Symposium was so well received, and with very good reason! Great research on repairing the TMJ!

Just experienced one of the best parts of being a faculty, welcoming your trainee into the PhD club and setting them free to wreak havoc on the world. Thanks Matthew Aronson for these fantastic years in the lab, I am so honored by the privilege of having seen you grow so much!

Really cool talk by Hannah, on identifying the best progenitor cells for TMJ repair — super thoughtful and exciting work. Big things ahead! #RegenerativeMedicine #tmj2025 @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

Great job, Hagar, for your talk at #tmj2025 and confident handling of questions - excited by this project on developing a new translational approach for repairing the temporomandibular joint cartilage! #proudPI @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

Excited for the start of the #tmj2025 conference, looking forward to the talks of the amazing Hannah Bonelli & Hagar Kenawy and of so many friends! @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

Congratulations! This is such a beautiful story and so much work went into it, such a great result! Thank you all for having me as part of this amazing team!

Just five days left to submit your abstract for the annual, amazing TERMIS Americas meeting for the session on Respiratory, Urologic & Gastrointestinal engineering and regeneration! #termis #termisam2025 @termisam.bsky.social am2025.termis.org

If you're around Palo Alto tomorrow, come hear how we gave menisci discarded from the food industry a second life to repair tracheas and eardrums @bioe-stanford.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social @upenn.edu #ENT

Great job Roberto for this beautiful paper in Biofabrication on an in situ hypoxya-delivery scaffold for cartilge regeneration, so proud of all that you continue to accomplish & of our continuing collaboration! @pennmedicine.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Congratulations to Irene Chiesa & co-authors for this beautiful paper on 4D bioprinting of trachea that got the cover of Advanced Materials Technologies #ProudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congrats to an exhausted Jeffrey for an absolutely outstanding performance during the very first talk of his PhD career at the Cartilage GRC #cartilageGRC2025 so incredibly proud of you! #proudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social

Great presentations by the lab at the annual #aadocr025! Hagar Kenawy and Hannah Bonelli discussing engineering bone for mandibular reconstruction and cell sources to regenerate the TMJ. Amazing job! #proudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @aadocr.bsky.social

Congrats Ryan @ryanmfriedman.bsky.social for leading this beautiful work on vocal folds fibrosis,from RNAseq of human vocal cords fibroblasts to in vivo treatment by signaling modulation. #proudPI @pennmedicine.bsky.social @upenn.edu @pennengineering.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1keRN,LVEy...

Excited for #ors2025 heading to #phoenix from #philly and the flight is already packed with academic #friends - it is going to be a few good days @orssociety.bsky.social

Great talk by Dr. Karen Christman for today's Penn Institute of Regenerative Medicine seminar, translating ECM materials to the clinical treatment of heart failures, leaky blood vessels, pelvic floor disorders! Bioengineering in action! @upenn.edu @upenn.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Aronson for an amazing defense and incredible work in the lab: 1 patent, 11 awards, 9 manuscripts, and 4.5 years of stellar science! #proudPI committe: @joeyzacks.bsky.social Will Bailis @vaughandy.bsky.social & Ian Jacobs

What better way to wrap up #cmbe2025 than with two outstanding talks by Dr.Longwei Liu on getting T cells to "hear" for ultrasound-mediated CAR-T, and by Dr.Jonathan Brunger on synthetic mechanoreceptors against neurodegenerarion (work by undergrad Dylan J.Conger!)

Do you know how much medium you need to make enough exosomes for clinical translation? Too much! But Rising Star Dr. Yichun Wang is fixing that, making those tiny vesicles really good for big deliveries! 📦🧬 #ExosomeScience #cmbe2025

Great flexing of scientific muscles by Rising Star Dr. @rituraman.bsky.social with her talk on motor control leveraging optogentic muscles, making a myokine factory, and controlling motor neurons. #cmbe2025

Rising Stars 2025! @brianaguado.bsky.social @marianhh.bsky.social @rituraman.bsky.social Drs. Cai, Chen, Yanxiang, Hind, Hong, Hwang, Joshi, Lee, Li, Loebel, Mistriotis, Nakayama, Nia, Raghavan, Wang, Weinstein

Who can fix a broken heart? Today's first keynote, Dr. Christman with injectable ECM, one of the most impressive examples of translation to the clinic! #cmbe2025 @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr. Chris Chen for the Shu Chien Achievement Award at #cmbe2025 introduced by none others than the incommensurable Dr. Shu Chien himself! @wyssinstitute.bsky.so @bostonu.bsky.so

Happy holidays from the Gottardi lab! @pennmedicine.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social

I wondered what my first post would be about, and as new beginnings go, this feels about right. Today, I became a US Citizen! #newUScitizen #uscis @uofpenn.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social