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Contact Information

Primary Address: 7123 Rennebohm Hall 777 Highland Ave Madison, WI 53705 Tel: 608/263-2998 Fax: 608/262-3397 E-mail: wjkao@wisc.edu

Secondary Address: 3140 ECB 1550 Engineering Dr Madison, WI 53706 Tel: 608/890-2295 Fax: 608/265-9293

Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Engineering
• Surgery

• Biomaterials/Tissue Engineering Laboratory
• Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
• Biotechnology Training Program
• Materials Science Program
• Rheology Research Center
• School of Medicine and Public Health
• School of Pharmacy
• University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center

Courses

• BME 430: Biological Interactions with Materials

Education

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Biomedical Engineering, postdoctoral associate
• California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, postdoctoral associate
• Case Western Reserve University, Macromolecular Sciences, PhD
• Case Western Reserve University, Biomedical Engineering, MsE
• The Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering, BsE

Fields of Interest

• mechanisms of cell adhesion and activation on biomaterials: to elucidate the material-modulated molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion and signal transductions leading to phenotypic expressions and cellular activation.
• biomaterial biocompatibility and biodegradation: to analyze material/tissue interfacial phenomena as mediated by material chemicophysical properties, cytokines, and ligand-receptor interactions.
• novel materials for tissue engineering: to develop novel biomaterial constructs of specific biofunctions in manipulating biological responses for therapeutic applications.

Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Search&db=pubmed&term=kao%20wj

Some of our current projects:

• First-in-human clinical study of in situ photopolymerized sIPN for dermal wounds.
• Better understand the underlying biology and the mechanisms of the wound healing event from inflammation to granulation and end stage healing.
• Study the role mesenchymal stem cells in wound healing.
• Elucidate specific material-mediated function of monocytes, keratinocytes, fibroblasts and the paracrine relationship thereof.
• Develop in situ polymerized multifunctional materials via click-chemistry for wound healing, drug delivery, and cell transplantation.
• Study stroma-cancer cell axis using microfluidic ECM-mimics for drug screening and underlying pathology.

Files and Links of Interest

• Follow us on FB
• Publications on PubMed
• Research Summary
• Technology Summary (WARF)

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