Graduate Student Wins Biomaterials Award

Graduate student Heungsoo Shin has won the 2002 Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research from the Society for Biomaterials for a research paper about bone-tissue engineering. Shin received the award at the 28th annual meeting of the Society for Biomaterials.

Shin’s research area concerns degradable synthetic biomaterials that can be used to treat defects in bone caused by disease or injury. Such biomaterials will be able to support damaged bone while fresh bone is being regenerated, then the biomaterials will degrade without damage to the body.