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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · 1d

You have left a mark in the lab and can't wait to see you rise to the top in your new job! Thanks to committee members @jboerckel.bsky.social, Jake Brenner, Rebecca Wells, & @vaughandy.bsky.social for supporting of Ryan & for many great scientific discussions that helped so much in this project!

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations Dr. Ryan Friedman👨‍🎓 for an outstanding defense! I am so very proud of you & so excited how advanced our understanding of vocal fold disorders and developing drug delivery approaches for vocal fold treatment! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · 19d

Great job Rayna in passing your qualifying exam with flying colors, so proud of you! @chopresearch.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social #proudPI

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · 20d

Look who's graduating soon... @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Aug 18

First we created a pore size gradient scaffold, then we tested in our biphasic bioreactor if it could be used for osteochondral repair, with each pore size promoting tissue specific differentiation which it did enough to move this to in vivo which we are working on now @chopresearch.bsky.social

Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Great job Kyra, bringing this work through the finish line! This is a story that started a few years back when Gio' visited my lab to test how different micropore dimensions in a polymeric scaffold preferentially support chondrogenesis vs. osteogenesis pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to both Isabella and Eva for passing your Bioengineering Qualifying Exams, so proud of you both! @pennengineering.bsky.social @chopresearch.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks for the highlight! Such an exciting project with the potential to impact patients!

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute @chopresearch.bsky.social · Jul 22

Researcher in CHOP's Bioengineering & Biomaterials Lab are evaluating different cartilage cell types to improve the current standard of care for #laryngotracheal reconstruction. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/63325sEDYl

Researchers are evaluating which types of cartilage cells could generate more robust airway spacers when combined with MEND technology.

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Great experience speaking at the ATíO conference on our translational cartilage repair from knee to throat, to ear, and back to the knee. Thanks to Tobias Winkler for the invitation and to Arthur Charlet for his prodding questions!
(Got an "Italian hand" going off on its own in the picture...)

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Martijn van Griensven @mvangriensven.bsky.social · Jun 18

conference #eors2025 in Davos with an invited presentation of our postdoc Carlos Peniche Silva on #miRNA in #tendon in conjunction with #mechanosensing. Thanks to Roberto di Gesu and @ricgottardi.bsky.social for the invite and organization. @merln-um.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Go @amilangscience.bsky.social! Great talk at #eors2025 from in vitro models to in vivo and back in vitro to study fracture healing and the role of vasculature! @umich.edu @jboerckel.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · May 29

Fantastic job, Hagar - Your presentation today at the annual CiPD Symposium was so well received, and with very good reason! Great research on repairing the TMJ!

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · May 15

Just experienced one of the best parts of being a faculty, welcoming your trainee into the PhD club and setting them free to wreak havoc on the world. Thanks Matthew Aronson for these fantastic years in the lab, I am so honored by the privilege of having seen you grow so much!

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 26

Really cool talk by Hannah, on identifying the best progenitor cells for TMJ repair — super thoughtful and exciting work. Big things ahead! #RegenerativeMedicine #tmj2025 @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 26

Great job, Hagar, for your talk at #tmj2025 and confident handling of questions - excited by this project on developing a new translational approach for repairing the temporomandibular joint cartilage! #proudPI @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 26

Excited for the start of the #tmj2025 conference, looking forward to the talks of the amazing Hannah Bonelli & Hagar Kenawy and of so many friends! @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social @upenn.edu

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congratulations! This is such a beautiful story and so much work went into it, such a great result! Thank you all for having me as part of this amazing team!

Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · Apr 24

Annemarie’s latest paper is out today!

CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@amilangscience.bsky.social @madhura0327.bsky.social @cpane94.bsky.social @eseidlscience.bsky.social @ricgottardi.bsky.social et al.

CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair - npj Regenerative Medicine

npj Regenerative Medicine - CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair

www.nature.com

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 23

Just five days left to submit your abstract for the annual, amazing TERMIS Americas meeting for the session on Respiratory, Urologic & Gastrointestinal engineering and regeneration! #termis #termisam2025 @termisam.bsky.social
am2025.termis.org

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you're around Palo Alto tomorrow, come hear how we gave menisci discarded from the food industry a second life to repair tracheas and eardrums @bioe-stanford.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social @upenn.edu #ENT

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 16

Great job Roberto for this beautiful paper in Biofabrication on an in situ hypoxya-delivery scaffold for cartilge regeneration, so proud of all that you continue to accomplish & of our continuing collaboration! @pennmedicine.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congratulations to Irene Chiesa & co-authors for this beautiful paper on 4D bioprinting of trachea that got the cover of Advanced Materials Technologies #ProudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Mar 27

Congrats to an exhausted Jeffrey for an absolutely outstanding performance during the very first talk of his PhD career at the Cartilage GRC #cartilageGRC2025 so incredibly proud of you! #proudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @childrensphila.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Mar 22

Great presentations by the lab at the annual #aadocr025! Hagar Kenawy and Hannah Bonelli discussing engineering bone for mandibular reconstruction and cell sources to regenerate the TMJ. Amazing job! #proudPI @pennengineering.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social @aadocr.bsky.social

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Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Mar 9

"Paganization" in action... 🍸🥃

Riccardo Gottardi @ricgottardi.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congrats Ryan @ryanmfriedman.bsky.social for leading this beautiful work on vocal folds fibrosis,from RNAseq of human vocal cords fibroblasts to in vivo treatment by signaling modulation. #proudPI @pennmedicine.bsky.social @upenn.edu @pennengineering.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/a/1keRN,LVEy...

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