Pre-IGERT fellow Joshua Gershlak recently represented the WPI IGERT program at the annual International Conference on Biofabrication. This year’s meeting was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands where the world leaders in Biofabrication met to discuss the state-of-the-art of the field of Biofabrication as well as “out of the box” insights from related fields. The meeting was very multidisciplinary and brought together research leaders, scholars, clinicians, and company representatives from around the world.
Gershlak, a member of Professor Glenn Gaudette’s Myocardial Regeneration Lab, presented a poster at the conference. The poster was entitled “Native Decellularized Cardiac ECM Incorporated into Fibrin Microthreads to Provide In Vivo-like Microenvironment for Stem Cell Adhesion” and in which Gershlak described the incorporation of native extracellular matrix from decellularized hearts into the fibrin sutures that the Gaudette Lab is known for. The poster was met with high praise from those who attended the conference and were very excited by the work being accomplished in the Gaudette Lab.
