Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Navarro Lab
Led by Sam Navarro · Materials Science and Engineering
What we study
The Navarro Lab studies materials for medicine, like synthetic polymers and hydrogels, focusing on drug delivery, bioprinting, and tissue engineering. They create new materials to improve treatments and regenerative medicine.
- Papers
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Recent papers, explained
- Lipid network crosslinked hydrogels control material dynamics across multiple length scales through lipid movement
2026 · Nature Communications
Creates hydrogels with mobile lipids to control stress relaxation across different scales.
- Engineered Hydrogels for Organoid Models of Human Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
2025 · Advanced Science
Builds flexible hydrogels to study how stiffness affects liver disease in organoids.
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- Viscoelastic N‑cadherin-like interactions maintain neural progenitor cell stemness within 3D matrices
2025 · Nature Communications
Tests materials to keep neural progenitor cells in a stem-like state in 3D matrices.
- Submucosal Hydrogel for Spring‐Mediated Intestinal Lengthening
2025 · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
Uses submucosal hydrogels to temporarily hold springs in place for intestinal lengthening.
- Expanding the Versatility of Dynamic Covalent Hydrogels with Static Covalent Spot-Welding
2025 · Chemistry of Materials
Makes dynamic hydrogels more stable by adding static bonds to prevent erosion.
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