Ashley Stein
Undergraduate Student in Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania
HOMETOWN
Irvine, California
EDUCATION
Candidate for BSE Bioengineering, 2009, University of Pennsylvania
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
Ashley has been working with Dr. Mauck in the McKay lab since 2007. She
is currently working on cartilage tissue engineering, specifically the use
of hydrogels in mesenchymal stem cell chondrogenesis.
PUBLICATIONS
- Cartilage Formed from Chondrocyte- and MSC-Laden Hydrogels," 2008, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
- Huang AH, Motlekar NA, Stein A, Diamond SL, Shore EM, Mauck RL. “High-throughput screening for modulators of mesencymal stem cell chondrogenesis” 2008, Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
- Yeger-McKeever M, Huang AH, Stein AF, Mauck RL. "Engineered MSC-Laden Cartilage Constructs are Sensitive to Infllammatory Cytokine-Mediated Degradation," Proceedings of ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Keystone, CO, June 20-24, podium presentation.
- Huang AH, Stein A, Diamond SL, Shore EM, Mauck RL. "High-Throughput Screening of MSC Chondrogenesis: Assay Development and Application," Transactions of the 54th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008 33:520.
- Huang AH, Yeger-McKeever M, Stein A, Mauck RL. "Identification of Molecular Antecedents Limiting Functional Maturation of MSC-Laden Hydrogels," Transactions of the 54th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008, 33:549.
- Huang AH, Stein A, Yeger-McKeever M, Tuan RS, Mauck RL. "Transient Exposure to TGF-B3 Improves Mechanical Properties of MSC-Laden Constructs," 2008, Proceedings of ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, June 25-29, paper 193130.
- Huang AH, Motlekar NA, Stein A, Shore EM, Diamond SL, Mauck RL. "High-Throughput Screening of Chemical Libraries for Moduluators of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Chondrogenesis," Proceedings of ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, June 25-29, paper 193118.