Sarah Mayes

Graduate Student

BME 4.416

Phone: 512-471-1986
Email: smayes78@gmail.com

Year Joined Lab: 2008

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2000The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. Material Science and Engineering, 2006The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research

Attenuating the inflammatory wound-healing response through bilayer, bifunctional HA materials

The objective of my research is to develop an anti cell-adhesive, biocompatible barrier material to isolate injury from fibrillar network formation. This base material can be layered with other anti-inflammatory materials or cell-adhesive materials to provide a bilayer, bifunctional material. Central to this research is the application of these biocompatible materials for injury isolation and the bioconjugation opportunities for further bifunctionalization. These bifunctional materials are useful for a number of biological applications including nerve injury, but may also be applied to many areas of tissue engineering as a patch.