Congratulations Tyler on your exceptional PhD dissertation entitled ‘Development of a bioactive annulus fibrosus repair strategy’ and your successful defense on April 30, 2021. We will greatly miss you and wish you much continued success at your current position as Consulting Associate at Charles River Associates. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerdistefano/

Congratulations Keti Vaso on your excellent MEng thesis titled ‘Evaluation of the Regenerative Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-derived Exosomes for Annulus Fibrosus Repair and Controlled Delivery Using Hydrogel-embedded Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) Acid Microspheres’ and on your successful defense on April 29, 2021. You were an outstanding contributor with Tyler and our team advancing several ambitious projects. We wish you much continued success in your current position as R&D Scientist at Henkel. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketivaso/

Dr. Weiser from Cooper Union, Keti’s primary mentor, has been an outstanding collaborator with our lab in biomaterials and educational research.

Congratulations to Robert Hoy for being awarded the Young Investigator Award at the Arnold and Madeline Penner 7th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium!