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Stephanie Seidlits, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin, United States

Focused at the interface of engineering, neuroscience and medicine, my research seeks to develop clinical therapies for CNS injury and disorders, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and glioma formation. Using biomaterial microenvironments and advanced imaging tools, my research aims to identify differences between the extracellular environment of diseased and healthy or developing and adult CNS tissues and exploit these mechanistic discoveries to develop novel therapies that target the local environment. Engineered microenvironments enable ex vivo investigation of key physiological players within conditions that approximate those in vivo so that physiologically relevant data can be obtained in a simplified context. Ultimately, this approach enables the development of new therapeutic strategies based on controlled manipulation of these players. The long-term goal of my research is to translate biomaterial microenvironments to in vivo regenerative therapies using hydrogels, gene and protein delivery and cell replacement as building blocks.

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