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BIOMATERIALS FORUM • Third Quarter 2010 1 SFB-BF1001covers.qxd 6/15/10 1:08 PM Page 3 Biomaterials Forum, the official news magazine of the Society For Biomaterials, is published quarterly to serve the biomaterials community. Society members receive Biomaterials Forum as a benefit of membership. Non-members may subscribe to the magazine at the annual rate of $48. For subscription information or member- ship inquiries, contact the Membership Department at the Society office (e-mail: [email protected]) or visit the Society’s web site, www.biomaterials.org. The official news magazine of the SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS • Volume 32, Issue 3 It is the policy of the Society For Biomaterials that all articles reflect only the views of the Executive Editor Karen Burg, Clemson University, Department of Bioengineering authors. 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Stegemann, [email protected] Departments Third Quarter 2010 • Volume 32, Issue 3 The Torch 2 From the Editor 3 From the President 4 Staff Update Chapter News 14 Members in the News Education News 19 Inspiring the Next Generation of Biomaterials Scientists Special Interest Group News 8 Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells Uptake Nanoparticles On the cover: Scanning electron micrograph of a channel in an alginate scaffold used for bone tissue engineering. The scaffold includes macroscopic University and Research Institution News channels as well as microporosity throughout (scale bar = 400 microns). 12 The Good and Peril of the Internet Photograph courtesy of Darilis Suarez-Gonzalez, M.S., and Dr. William L. Murphy, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin. Government News 15 Imaging Cells in Polymer Scaffolds 10 AIMBE Update Industry News 18 BioInk Biomaterials Community 21 Community Calendar BIOMATERIALS FORUM • Third Quarter 2010 1 The Torch From the Editor By Karen J.L. Burg My plans for this editorial changed with He doggedly continued in the face of verbal missiles, using the the death of Shalaby Shalaby in August. criticism as topics fueling his next series of patents. Today pH Dr. Shalaby was a recognized pioneer and temperature responsive absorbable materials research is in the field of absorbable biomaterials. commonplace and the questions do not focus on whether or not What may not be so widely known is that these types of systems are realistic, but rather on how to fine tune he was an advisor and mentor to many, them, what groups with which to integrate them and so forth. including me. More than 20 years ago, he Don’t take no for an answer if you believe in your cause. collected me from aimless wandering of the halls at Clemson University, a new, The third point is that everything is an opportunity and one lost and advisorless graduate student. I discovered over time that should seize opportunities. Obviously, one should establish Dr. Shalaby consistently “flew under the radar.” Unlike many, bounds for this point so as not to pursue endless opportunities he did not seek recognition or awards; rather, he sought out a in all directions while partaking in none to a quality level. I network of collaborators, business partners, friends and, most can think of many times in my career when it would have been importantly to me, students in need of guidance. Since he was so easier to keep my head down and not seize an opportunity, and it humble, he would never have described his “success,” let alone frightens me to think of the opportunities I would have missed. “keys to success.” Hence, I am going to describe three points that By way of only one example, when I first began life as a new were core to his philosophy. faculty member, Dr. Shalaby asked me if I would co-teach an absorbable materials short course with him in Atlanta, Georgia. The first point is that everyone is important; a title and/or The course would be limited specifically to a very small group ability to pontificate in a large group does not equal importance. of industry participants. I agreed, but as the dates of the course I think those in the biomaterials industry understand this approached and my schedule became overloaded, I questioned concept far better than those of us in the biomaterials academic my own sanity in having agreed to participate in this seemingly world. Perhaps it is the drivers or rewards systems that cause time consuming, seemingly small impact, off-site event. I even this difference in comprehension–a functional industrial mentioned my concerns to him, and he simply responded by team requires personalities and talents of all types, including assuring me this would be a great opportunity. We proceeded introverts and extroverts. A nonfunctional team can have major, as planned, and I had a wonderful time getting to know the devastating financial ramifications for a company. In the world of course enrollees, talking with them about absorbable materials academia, the major drivers are publications, grants and awards, research and potential and seeing Dr. Shalaby in networking and these drivers can easily lead to a “verbose equals important” action. I chalked up the event as simply a nice “break” from the type of mentality. The process of moving a biomaterial from higher priority tasks of an untenured professor, until a year or concept to clinical reality is so overwhelmingly complex that so later, when one of the participants mentioned to me that he it almost seems obvious that one would need input from a vast worked as a consultant for a not-for-profit where I had applied array of individuals. I think the best example that showcases for research funding. He said he had been so excited to see my living the “everyone is important” mantra involves Dr. Shalaby’s proposal, and he had relayed to the powers-that-be how much purposeful corralling of those unnoticed, borderline-grade, he had enjoyed our Atlanta short course. Ironically, that initial advisorless students and extracting the very best out of each grant blossomed into one of the most amazing networking one with the belief that in each one was a nugget or glimmer and funding opportunities for which I could ever have wished of potential.