The Knight Campus Department of Bioengineering and the Dalton Lab are pleased to announce that Kelly O’Neill will defend her bioengineering PhD thesis, to be presented during the Department of Bioengineering Seminar Series.

Kelly's PhD defense presentation is titled: “Advanced Manufacturing of Microfiber Conduits for Tissue Engineering.”

This talk explores the use of advanced manufacturing technologies, including melt electrowriting (MEW) and solution electrospinning (SES), for tissue engineering with a focus on peripheral nerve repair. The presentation will highlight the hardware and software tools for tubular printing, advances in multi-material scaffolds, studies on Schwann cell guidance, and hydrogel-based coatings for cell attachment. It also addresses the economic perspective of translating a MEW-based nerve guide to clinical use.