BME Seminar: Shang Song
Monday, September 12th, 2022, 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Shang Song
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
“Bioengineering: Cells, Tissues and Organs for Advancing Human Health”
Keating 103
Zoom link | Passcode: BearDown
(Permission required for enrolled students to attend via Zoom)
Hosts: Dr. Beth Hutchinson and Dr. Shang Song
Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting the Disability Resource Center at 621-3268 (V/TTY).
ABSTRACT
Millions of people are in dire need of functional constructs that restore, maintain, or improve damaged tissues or whole organs. Dramatic advances in science and technologies have been made to mimic critical physiological features of a healthy body. Particularly, using engineered biomaterials to manipulate cell behavior offers us the ability to develop artificial organs and improve therapeutic treatments in the field of regenerative medicine. This presentation centers on using bioengineering approaches and biomaterials in combination with cell therapy to achieve desired functionalities in the areas of diabetic, neural, and orthopedic research. I will also talk about exciting research projects in my newly founded Integrated BioDesign laboratory (songlabs.arizona.edu) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Arizona.
BIO
Dr. Shang Song is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Arizona. Her laboratory focuses on using engineering approaches and biomaterials to manipulate cellular microenvironment for developing organ-on-chip systems and new regenerative approaches. Dr. Song completed her postdoctoral fellowship training in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. She graduated with Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco (UC Berkeley & UCSF). She received her B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering with Honors from Brown University. Dr. Song was awarded scholarships and fellowships from organizations such as the National Institute of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service Award (NRSA) (NIH F32), Stanford University Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), 30 under 30 by Forbes Magazine, and the Gates Millennium Scholar amongst others.