Dr. Hindin receives 1st place award at Robert H. Ivy Society annual meeting

David Hindin, M.D., post doctoral fellow in the Integrated Cellular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (i-CTERM) Laboratory and resident in the Department of General Surgery, received the George Manstein MD, 1st Place Overall Award at the 61st annual Robert H. Ivy Society Meeting held in Hershey, Penn. His talk was titled "Electrospun Soy Protein Scaffolds Enhance Skin Regeneration in a Rat Wound Model." Dr. Hindin's talk focused on the development of a type of bioactive wound dressing that can be used to help regenerate areas of wounded skin. The lab team has been producing a scaffold made out of soy protein that has been turned into fibers through a process called electrospinning. The scaffolds made from this process are then applied to wounds created in a delayed-healing animal model. Early results suggest an improvement in the process of skin regeneration for wounds treated with these soy scaffolds. This research was conducted in the i-CTERM Laboratory, directed by Peter Lelkes, Ph.D., chair and professor in the Department of Bioengineering.