Dr. Rebecca E. Oberley-Deegan is a Professor at the UNMC Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Omaha, NE, USA. She holds a B.A.
from Grinnell College (1999) and a PhD from the University of Iowa
(2004). She did postdoctoral training at National Jewish Health (Denver,
CO, USA). Dr. Oberley-Deegan’s laboratory focuses on reducing side
effects associated with cancer therapy. The main goal is to reduce
radiation and chemotherapy-induced toxicity to normal tissues while not
protecting the tumor cells from being killed by these therapies.
Dr. Bin Duan is an Associate Professor at the UNMC Division of
Cardiovascular Medicine, Mary & Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program.
He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong and his post-doc training
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. He joined
the University of Nebraska Medical Center in November 2015 and also holds
courtesy appointments in the Department of Surgery-Transplant at UNMC and the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His
lab focuses on the development of novel biomaterials and advanced
biofabrication techniques. The research goal of his lab is to create
multi-scale complexity within engineered tissues to understand the fundamentals
of cell-material interactions and mimic the native tissues for tissue
regeneration.
