Shalu Suri

Shalu Suri, M.S., M.Sc.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Biomedical Engineering

    University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

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  • Advisor:

    Christine E Schmidt

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
     
    M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Bombay, India)
     
    M.Sc., Biochemistry, Kanpur University (Kanpur, India)
     
    B.Sc., Biology, Kanpur University (Kanpur, India)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Rinti Banerjee (as Graduate Student - Masters)
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  • Research:
    Photopolymerizable Scaffolds of Native ECM components for Neural Tissue Engineering

    The main goal of the project is to design tissue engineering scaffolds that can aid regeneration of tissue after trauma and disease and in our lab we are mainly focusing on finding solutions for nerve regeneration. Following a nerve injury, current treatment in the case of small gap is to suture the two ends without creating tension; and placing an autologous graft from other site of the body if a long gap is created. These treatment strategies do not result in 100% functional recovery, require multiple surgeries, loss of function at the donor site and size mismatch. Current research is focused on the development of nerve guidance therapies, which can act as a physical support and can simultaneously provide chemical and biological cues for cell infiltration and growth. Ideally, a scaffold should have porous three-dimensional (3D) structure that presents an in vivo-like microenvironment to cells by facilitating cell-cell and cell-material interactions and promoting cell adhesion, migration and proliferation.

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  • Other Experience:

    2003-2005 Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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  • Honors:

    2009 Nominated to the graduate school from BME department for Outstanding Graduate Student Award, The University of Texas

    2007 STAR Award, Society for Biomaterials 2007 Annual Conference held at Chicago

    2005 Bajpai Saha Award for Best Paper Presentation at 15th Annual Conference on Biomaterials and Artificial Organs held at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum, India

    2003 Scored 96.19 percentile all over India in Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE)

    2003-2005 Awarded MHRD-GATE Scholarship for outstanding achievements in academics 2003-2005, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India

    2001-2003 Awarded medal and recognized for getting Top Position in M.S. (2 consecutive years) in Biochemistry Department

    1998-2001 Awarded Merit certificate and gold medal for getting Top Position in B.S. (3 consecutive years) in the Department

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Shalu Suri's Publications (7)



Shalu Suri's Posters and Presentations (9)

  • Engineered Extracellular Matrix-Mimicking Hydrogels with Embedded Schwann Cells for Neural Tissue Engineering (poster)

    Shalu Suri, Christine Schmidt

    Society for Biomaterials; 04/2009
  • Enhanced Cell Migration and Efficient In-vivo Immune-modulation by Combinatorial, Single Formulation Delivery of siRNA, DNA vaccine and Chemokines (presentation)

    Ankur Singh, Shalu Suri, Krishnendu Roy

    Society for Biomaterials; 04/2009
  • Superswelling and Dual Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels with Micro- and Macro-patterned Zonal Distribution of Hydrogel Properties (presentation)

    Shalu Suri

    Biomedical Engineering Society; 10/2008
  • Superswelling and Patterned Dual-Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels : Zonal Distribution of Hydrogel Properties for Tissue Engineering Applications (presentation)

    Shalu Suri, Scott Zawko, Quan Trong, Christine E. Schmidt

    Society for Biomaterials Fall meeting; 09/2008
  • Collagen-Hyaluronic Acid Photocrosslinkable Interpenetrating Networks (poster)

    Sylvia Hyunth, Shalu Suri, Christine E Schmidt

    Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology; 02/2008
  • Encapsulation of Schwann cells in Collagen-Hyaluronic acid Interpenetrating Network: An ECM Mimic (presentation)

    Shalu Suri, Jenny Tang, Christine E. Schmidt

    Biomedical Engineering Society; 10/2007
  • Synthesis and Characterization of a Photocrosslinkable Collagen-Hyaluronan Interpenetrating Network for Tissue Engineering : An ECM Mimic (presentation)

    Shalu Suri, Christine E Schmidt

    Society for Biomaterials Annual meeting; 04/2007
  • Photocrosslinkable interpenetrating networks of collagen and hyaluronic acid for neural tissue engineering (poster)

    Shalu Suri, Christine E Schmidt

    Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology; 02/2007
  • Biophysical evaluation of vitreous humor, its constituents and substitutes (poster)

    Shalu Suri, Rinti Banerjee

    Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India); 01/2005

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The happiest Schwann cell encapsulated in neural ECM mimicking hydrogel


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