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Mollie Smoak

Mollie Smoak

Mollie completed her BS in Biological Engineering in 2016 from Louisiana State University. She then began her PhD in the lab of Dr. Antonios Mikos studying biomaterials for musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Her thesis work focuses on the development of tunable biomaterials derived from extracellular matrix. By leveraging native biochemical cues from decellularized tissue with tunable physicochemical properties afforded through scaffold fabrication techniques, we can develop highly tunable scaffolds with applications in several tissue types. 

Images of the scaffold composed of fluorescent fibers: Left: raw widefield image. Right: THUNDER image with LVVC. Both images are maximal projections of a z stack of 55 images (total height of 130 µm). Images courtesy of Mollie Smoak, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Finding new Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

Tissue engineers use biomaterials for a variety of applications from drug delivery to supporting the regeneration of damaged or lost tissues to creating in vitro disease models. Scaffold architecture…
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