Wychowaniec Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2025

De-Coding Adhesion, Degradation and Immunomodulation Properties of Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels for Programmed Tendon Regeneration

Despite recent advances there is still a clear need for injectable and regenerative biomaterials that can spatiotemporally modulate the inflammation and, in parallel, induce the desired regenerative pathways. Usually, biopolymeric hydrogels need a narrow and somewhat opposite set of physical and biological properties which allow for their degradation, adhesion as well as immune cell invasion to allow complete tissue regeneration. To resolve this issue, following my unique interdisciplinary expertise, I plan to develop new injectable self-assembling peptides (SAPs) biomaterials that simultaneously: i) possess improved adhesion to local tissues in vivo, ii) exhibit controlled degradation…

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