The Mooney lab focuses on making therapies more effective and practical. Our research involves exploiting our understanding of cell and molecular biology to design biomaterials that effect and potentiate specific cell functions. The lab members consist of post-doctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, research fellows, and visiting scholars from diverse academic backgrounds. For more information, please visit our publications page, and for any inquiries, please visit our contact page.
Congrats to Theresa and team on their recent publication which describes the effects of VEGF and IGF-1 on functional reinnervation and muscle regeneration in mice and rabbits. Check it out here: Combined delivery of VEGF and IGF-1 promotes functional innervation in mice and improves muscle transplantation in rabbits
Check out Ben's review on biomaterial-based strategies for mimicking and healing connective tissues!
Congrats to Nisarg and team on their recent publication which describes a bone marrow-like scaffold for reconstituting T cell immunity after stem cell transplantation. Check it out here: An injectable bone marrow-like scaffold enhances T cell immunity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Interested in learning more about his work? Check out the cool stuff his new lab is working on here: Nanoscale Materials and Cell Engineering Lab
Congrats to Theresa on her recent publication which shows that cytokines coupled to gold nanoparticles can be used to direct macrophage polarization following muscle injury in vivo. Check it out here: Functional muscle recovery with nanoparticle-directed M2 macrophage polarization in mice.
