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Goal(s):

• Leverage additive manufacturing to design functional hydrogel systems to support 3D cell culture and study tissue-specific chemomechanical responses for applications in women’s health
• Apply adaptive tuning techniques of local and global properties of hydrogel systems to assist in vitro drug screening
• Develop and optimize in situ characterization techniques to investigate the structure-property relationships of biological materials in their native environments
• Integrate ML-guided image analysis software to streamline quantitative characterization of network-forming soft materials

Sponsors: JHU, March of Dimes (past), NSF (past), Nanomegas (in-kind)