Biomaterials & biomechanics

UC San Diego – Chen Lab for BioNanomaterials, Bioprinting & Tissue Engineering ([email protected])
3D printing, bioprinting, biomaterials (hydrogels), biofabrication, mechanical property measurements

UC Davis – Kent Leach ([email protected])
Mineralized scaffolds, composite scaffolds, electrospun scaffolds, hydrogels derived from natural materials, mechanical testing, biocompatibility testing using mammalian cells

UC Berkeley Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Laboratory – Kevin Healy ([email protected])

USC – Yong Chen ([email protected])
Scaffolds, 3D printing, bioprinting

Stanford Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence – David M. Barnett ([email protected])
Pursues the use of in vitro protein nanosensors and in vivo nanoparticles for next generation molecular imaging.

Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory – Tom Carver ([email protected])
Materials characterization – high-resolution microscopes, x-ray diffractometers, surface science analytical instruments

Stanford Nanofabrication Facility – Roger Howe ([email protected])
Supports researchers in applications ranging from medicine and biology to fundamental physics and astronomy. It’s equipped with a full suite of tools supporting device fabrication.

Stanford NeuroMuscular Biomechanics Lab – Scott Delp ([email protected])
Provides experimental and computational approaches to study movement.

Stanford Soft Tissue Biomechanics Lab – Marc E. Levenston ([email protected])
Focuses on the function, degeneration and regeneration of articular cartilage and fibrocartilage, with an emphasis on understanding the complex interactions between biophysical and biochemical cues in controlling cell behavior.

Stanford Microsystems Lab – Beth Pruitt ([email protected])
Micromachined sensors for system monitoring and modeling, development of novel processes and devices for measuring nanoscale mechanical behavior, and the analysis, design and control of integrated electro-mechanical systems. In the group there is a large focus on biomedical applications of nanofabricated devices with the goal of developing diagnostic tools, measurement and analysis systems, and reliable manufacture methods.

Stanford Biomimetics & Dextrous Manipulation Lab – Mark Cutkosky ([email protected])

Stanford Micro Structures & Sensors Lab – Thomas Kenny ([email protected])

Stanford Computational Biomechanics/Living Matter Lab – Ellen Kuhl ([email protected])

Stanford Nanoscale Prototyping Lab – Fritz Prinz ([email protected])

Stanford Otobiomechanics Lab – Sunil Puria ([email protected])

Stanford Microfluidics Lab – Juan G. Santiago ([email protected])

Stanford Dauskardt Group – Reinhold Dauskardt ([email protected])
Materials synthesis, testing & characterization, computational modeling

Stanford Chaudhuri Lab – Ovijit Chaudhuri ([email protected])
Mechanical properties of cells and ECM

UCSF – Jeffrey Lotz ([email protected])
Biomechanics of bone – compression, tension, 3-pt bending, and other custom testing – both small and large animal

UCLA – Song Li ([email protected])
Biocompatibility testing

UCLA Dental Research Service Center – Chase Linsley ([email protected])
Instron, Fatigue, DMA wet/dry, anti-microbial product testing, anti-sensitivity and remineralization product testing, toxicity and safety testing, clinical validation of product efficacy

UCLA Biopolymer Laboratory – David Teplow ([email protected])
Peptide and protein chemistry services

UCLA Materials Characterization Laboratory – Ignacio Martini ([email protected])
Thermal, optical, microscopic, electrical and magnetic characterization of materials and elemental analysis of surfaces via a wide range of instruments including light scattering spectrometers, several spectrophotometers; scanning probe microscopes, a SQUID magnetometer, a Scanning Electron Microscope, and an X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer

UCLA Inductive Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectometry – Shane Que Hee ([email protected])

UCLA Integrated NanoMaterial Laboratory – Baolai Liang ([email protected])
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) reactors to provide semiconductor wafer growth foundry services. MBE-I is designed for providing (In, Ga, Al – As, Sb) epitaxial wafers, while MBE-II is designed to provide (In, Ga, Al – N) epitaxial wafers. Our strengths in nanomaterial synthesis include growth of nanowires, quantum dots, and semiconductor films in the thickness of a single atom level.

UCLA Integrated Systems Nanofabrication Cleanroom – [email protected]
Integrates classic semiconductor tools and processes with biological, chemical, and medical substrates to extend beyond more traditional nano-device fabrication such as integrated circuits, quantum dots, single electron transistors, nanotips etc. toward DNA, single molecules, proteins and a host of other biologically relevant nanosystems.

UCLA Nanoelectronics Research Facility – Tom Lee ([email protected])
Micro and nano-technology fabrication equipment, as well as professionally managed use of cleanroom facilities

UCLA Magnetic Resonance Facility – Robert Taylor ([email protected])
Six NMR spectrometers and one EPR spectrometer