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Winner of the IUPAC Prize
for Young Chemists - 2009

 

Christopher J. Bettinger wins one of the five IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists, for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled "Synthesis and Microfabrication of Elastomeric Biomaterials for Advanced Tissue Engineering Scaffolds".

current address(at time of application)

Email: cjbetti@stanford.edu

Academic degrees

  • Ph.D Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008, Materials Science and Engineering
  • M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004, Biomedical Engineering
  • S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003, Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. Thesis

Title Synthesis and Microfabrication of Elastomeric Biomaterials for Advanced Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Adviser Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Essay

The subject of this thesis lies at the interface of microfabrication technology and advanced biomaterials synthesis and processing for use in designing and fabricating novel tissue engineered constructs. The unifying theme is to use polymer synthesis, characterization, and fabrication of strategies to form advanced tissue engineering scaffolds which are able to precisely control the microenvironment of cells. These effects are organized into two thrusts; (1) biodegradable materials and systems for microfludic tissue engineering scaffolds and......[full text; pdf file - 4.39MB]

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