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Sydney Kestle

Undergraduate Student in Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

HOMETOWN
Vienna, Virginia

EDUCATION
Candidate for BAS Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS

Sydney works with Isaac on cartilage tissue engineering, designing HA scaffolds for mesenchymal stem cell research. She also loves basketball and tennis, watching more movies than humanly possible, and trying to stay healthy long enough to graduate in one piece.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Erickson IE, Huang AH, Sengupta S, Kestle S, Burdick JA, Mauck RL. Macromer Density Influences Mesenchymal Stem Cell Chondrogenesis And Maturation In Photocrosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels. Osteoarthritis Cartilage (2009).

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

1. Erickson IE, Kestle SR, Farrell MJ, Burdick JA, Mauck RL. "Macromer Density Mediates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Response to Dynamic Compression in Photo-Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels," Transactions of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, March 6-9, 2010, submitted.