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Nilsson, Alex
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ETH Zürich
Phone: +41 61 387 32 61 |
Research Interests
- Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- Engineered Silk as a Biomaterial
- Cell/Matrix Interactions
Project Description
Genetic silk engineering for better angiogenic outcomes in tissue engineering constructs
Short CV
| Current position |
BioEngineering Cluster Doctoral Student. Joint project between the groups of Prof. Sven Panke (Bioprocess Laboratory), Prof. Viola Vogel (Biologically Oriented Materials) and Dr. Lorenz Meinel/Prof. emerit. Hans P. Merkle (Drug Formulation & Delivery), ETH Zürich |
| March 2007 | Visiting Scientist in the group of Prof. David Kaplan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, Massachusetts, USA |
| May 2005 | Japanese Technical Interpreter, Q-Sense, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2005 | Bachelor of Arts in Japanese, Göteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2004 | Master of Science in Bioengineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| September 2003-March 2004 |
Master Thesis Research Work in the group of Prof. Hideaki Kagami (now at Tokyo University), Department of Tissue Engineering, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan Thesis Title: "Generation of tissue engineered vascular constructs: Effect of mechanical stress on the differentiation of bone marrow derived stem cells" |
| April – July 2003 | Japanese Exchange Program, Hokkaido Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan |
Memberships
- Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society
- Swiss Society of Biomaterials
Conference Presentations
- TERMIS-EU (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, European Chapter) Meeting, Granada, Spain, June 2011. Poster
- SSB2010 (the 16th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials), Dübendorf, Switzerland, May 2010. Best Student Oral Presentation Award
- ESB2009 (the 22nd European Conference on Biomaterials), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2009. Poster
- BioNano2009 (the 2nd Swiss-Japanese Symposium on Bionanotechnology), Aigle, Switzerland, September 2009. Poster
- TERMIS-NA (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, North American Chapter) Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, December 2008. Poster
- TERMIS-AP (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Asia Pacific Chapter) Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, December 2007. Oral
Recent Non-Scientific Achievements
- Ultimate Frisbee: multiple Swiss Championship titles (2009, 2010 and 2011), and participation in Worlds (2008) and Europeans (2011)
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