Current Lab Members

Beili Zhu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate

Email: b.zhu@neu.edu

Education 

B.S. Biomedical Engineering
Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
UT at San Antonio/UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Research

My project will be creating new methods and developing microfluidic devices to separate different types of cells from native cardiac and skin tissue for applications in tissue engineering and cell-based tissue repair.

Publications

Journal Articles

Zhu B, Bailey S R, Agrawal C M. Engineering Calcium Deposits on Polycaprolactone Scaffolds for Intravascular Applications using Primary Human Osteoblasts; Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine In Press

Lin J, Lindsey ML, Zhu B, Agrawal C M, Bailey S R. Effects of Surface Modified Scaffolds on the Growth and Differentiation of Mouse Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells; Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2007; Vol. 1/ Issue 3/ p211-217

Conference Proceedings

B Zhu, S R Bailey, C M Agrawal “Human Osteoblast Culture on TGF-ß Coated Polycaprolactone Scaffolds in Dexamethasone Conditioned Media” Transactions of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society For Biomaterials, Volume 31, Abstract # 265, San Antonio TX, April 2009

B Zhu, S R Bailey, C M Agrawal “Calcification of Human Osteoblast Culture with TGF-ß and Dexamethasone Treatments on Polycaprolactone Films” Transactions of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society For Biomaterials, Volume 31, Abstract # 221, San Antonio TX, April 2009

B Zhu, S R Bailey, C M Agrawal “Calcification of Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cell Cultures on Gas Plasma Treated Polylactic Acid Films” Transactions of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society For Biomaterials, Volume 31, Abstract # 699, San Antonio TX, April 2009

B Zhu, S R Bailey, C M Agrawal “Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Calcification on Poly-lactic Acid 2D Films” Transactions of the 2008 Society For Biomaterials Symposium, Abstract # 192; Atlanta GA, Sept. 2008