Contact Name

Jenne Parker

Contact Email

parkerjenn@missouri.edu

Speaker(s) Information

Dr. Jianjun Guan is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the Washington University in St. Louis. He joined Washington University in August 2018. He was a professor, associate professor, and assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University since 2007. His research interests are biomaterials, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. Specifically, his research is focused on: development of biomimetic elastic polymers; generation and mathematical modeling of nano-structured scaffolds mimicking biomechanical and structural properties of cardiovascular tissues; injectable, fast gelation, and highly flexible hydrogels for cell and drug therapies; design of novel drugs and their delivery systems to control cardiac fibrosis and cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation, and to promote fast angiogenesis after myocardial infarction; engineering cardiac patches capable of fast angiogenesis; multifunctional stem cell and drug delivery systems for myocardial, ischemic limb, bone and skin regeneration; development of polymeric, degradable, and imageable electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) probes and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probes for real time oxygen detection in tissues; and mechanisms of stem cell fate determination by biomaterials. He has made more than 120 presentations at national and international meetings, published 98 peer-reviewed papers, and edited 1 book. His publications have been rigorously cited with an h-index of 48. In addition, he has been granted 6 patents. His research has been funded by National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association, and biomedical industries.