Anseth Group
@AnsethGroup
Better living through PEG hydrogels
Well-deserved recognition for PhD student @B_R_Nelson1’s outstanding achievements! Ben is co-advised with @BowmanChri and studies dithiolane photopolymerizations for dynamic materials.
Thrilled to have been awarded this recognition, and honored to have been able to participate in such a wonderful symposium at #ACSSpring2025!
Congratulations to graduate student @B_R_Nelson1 for his new paper in @PolymChem! Exciting progress on additive manufacturing with lipoic acid.
Delighted to share our new work out in @PolymChem. In this work we create a recyclable dithiolane monomer, capable of printing in 2 or 3D across various length scales. Check out the cool artwork we printed on the micron scale! doi.org/10.1039/D5PY00…
New research on aortic valve stenosis (AVS) highlights PTEN's role in preventing myofibroblast activation and promoting quiescence in valvular interstitial cells. This could be a potential target for AVS treatment. #AVS @AnsethGroup Read more: doi.org/10.1002/adbi.2…
Congratulations to two all-star lab alumni, Brian Aguado (postdoc) and @coledeforest (PhD), for their well-deserved awards at last week’s @SFBiomaterials meeting! #SFB2025

Check out my talk tomorrow morning at #ACSSpring2025 at 10:40-11:05 in the Marriott Marquis Pacific Ballroom: Section 14. I'll be talking about an exciting multifunctional dithiolane monomer for recycling in additive manufacturing! @POLY_ACS @acspmse
Last month, the @BioFrontiers Institute threw a fantastic party to celebrate Kristi’s VinFuture Prize—good food, good company, and a well-earned toast to her impact in science!

Thrilled to share our latest work in @MacroJrnls_ACS, a very fun collab with my (social media-less) dear friend Josh Kamps in @BowmanChri’s lab. We use DCM as a methylene source to form acetal-linked recyclable polymers and networks, including hugely scalable hydrogels. Link ⬇️!
🥳👏 Congratulations to @Monica_Ohnsorg and @EllaHushka for their fantastic new article in @ACSPublications Accounts of Chemical Research, highlighting some of our group’s contributions to photoresponsive biomaterials! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…
Congratulations to group members @KaustavBera11, @bruceekirk, and @Monica_Ohnsorg for being finalists in this year’s CU Up Close microscopy competition. Monica’s image took 2nd place! We get to enjoy these images in the BioFrontiers calendar and on the walls of our building.

I'm excited to be part of the Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter symposium hosted by the UChicago and UCSD MRSECs. Register now to watch the talks tomorrow and Thursday! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'll be talking about photochemistry in hydrogels. mrsec.uchicago.edu/educational-ou…
🎊 Thrilled to share our latest work in Advanced Functional Materials @AdvPortfolio, led by fantastic PhD student Mark Young. Mark used allyl-sulfide mediated spatial softening of hydrogel substrates to control differentiation in intestinal monolayers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

