Group Members

- Newell R. Washburn
- Assistant Professor
- washburn@andrew.cmu.edu
- Sidi A. Bencherif
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry
- sabenche@andrew.cmu.edu
Synthesis of Polymers for Tissue Engineering by ATRP, Synthesis and Characterization of functional Macromers, Synthesis and Structure-properties relationships of photo-crosslinked hydrogels, Degradable Polymers, Peptide Synthesis.
- Joseph Prata
- Ph.D. student, Chemistry
- jprata@andrew.cmu.edu
Currently, my research focuses on the incorporation of glycosaminoglycans, such as heparin and hyaluronic acid, into robust crosslinked networks.

- Steve Sun
- Ph.D. student, Biomedical Engineering
- stevesun@andrew.cmu.edu
Development of cytokine-binding hybrid polymers.

- Amino
- Mascot
