Zhang, Ning
Guest PhD student, August 2015 to July 2017
State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Research Interests
heart on a chip, stretchable micro-electrode arrays (sMEA), 3D cell culture, biointerfaces, biomaterials, tissue engineering
Poster Presentations
Application of soft hydrogel surface gradients for 3D cell culture
N. Zhang, V. Milleret, B.R. Simona, N.P. Huang, J. Vörös, and M. Ehrbar
Materials Day 2015 – Soft Materials, 25 November 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.
Soft hydrogel to mimic native microenvironment for 3D cell culture
N. Zhang, V. Milleret, B.R. Simona, N.P. Huang, J. Vörös, and M. Ehrbar
CCMX Annual Meeting 2016, 11 May 2016, Bern, Switzerland.
Development of engineered myocardium based on biomimetic hydrogels for drug testing
N. Zhang, F. Stauffer, B. Simona, J. Vörös and N.P. Huang
Latsis Symposium 2016, 27-29 June, Zurich, Switzerland.
Fibroblasts followed by cancer cells invading into hydrogels with surface density gradients
N. Zhang, V. Milleret, B.R. Simona, N.P. Huang, J. Vörös, and M. Ehrbar
ETH-Chalmers 4th Bilateral Workshop, 19-21 September 2016, Zurich, Switzerland.
3DProSeedTM: Density gradients at hydrogel interfaces for enhanced cell infiltration
N. Zhang, V. Milleret, B.R. Simona, Thompson-Steckel, N.P. Huang, J. Vörös, M. Ehrbar
Biointerfaces International 2016, 23-25 August,2016, Zurich, Switzerland.
Integrated mechanical and electrical biosensors for multifunctional heart-on-a-chip platform
N. Zhang, F. Stauffer, A. Renz, H. Han, B. R. Simona, N.P. Huang and J. Vörös
FEBS Workshop Biological Surfaces and Interfaces: Interface Dynamics, 02-07 July, 2017, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain.
Publications
Soft Hydrogels Featuring In-Depth Surface Density Gradients for the Simple Establishment of 3D Tissue Models for Screening Applications
N. Zhang, V. Milleret, G. Thompson-Steckel, N.P. Huang, J. Vörös, B.R. Simona, M. Ehrbar
SLAS Discovery 2017, Vol. 22(5) 635 –644. DOI: 10.1177/2472555217693191, (special issue “3D cell culture”)