Student Projects at the Paez Lab (embedding: DBE)
We are: a group of polymer and pharmaceutical chemists, material scientists, and biomedical engineers interested in developing smart biomaterials to solve problems in healthcare.
We offer: a variety of student projects for chemical engineers, biomedical engineers, and material scientists, with an excellent supervision and team spirit. We employ tools from synthetic organic/polymer chemistry, biomaterials science, engineering and cell biology, to create smart biomaterials for biomedical applications. Depending on your background and particular interests, the project can be focused in one (or more) of these disciplines.
We look for: motivated, enthusiastic and pro-active students to complement and contribute to our team.
These projects are currently available in our group:
- Ion-conductive hydrogels for cardiac tissue modeling (collaboration with Andries van der Meer and Robert Passier from AST group)
- Nitric oxide (NO) releasing therapeutic hydrogels to assist in heart repair (collaboration with international partners and Robert Passier from AST group)
- Multi-sensing smart hydrogels for modelling of breast tumor microenvironments using on-chip platforms (collaboration with Séverine Le Gac from AMBER group)
- Lung adhesive hydrogels for treatment of lung diseases (collaboration with Jeroen Leijten, DBE group)
- 3D printable bioinks based on dynamic covalent adaptable hydrogels with stress-relaxing and self-healing properties.
- Hydrogel-based tissue phantoms for soft robotics (collaboration with Islam Khalil, RaM group)
- Bioadhesive hydrogels to stabilize and treat aneurysm (collaboration with Islam Khalil, RaM group)
- Hydrogel-based tissue phantoms for needle-free injections (collaboration with David Fernández Rivas, MST group)
- Lab automation tools