Dena Shahriari is an Assistant professor at the department of Orthopaedics and the School of Biomedical Engineering at the university of British Columbia in Vancouver as well as a principal investigator at the International Collaborations on Repair Discoveries (ICORD). Dr. Shahriari has a BS from the University of California Berkeley and later received her PhD from the University of Michigan where she developed axon guidance scaffolds for bridging the sciatic nerve and the spinal cord. Part of her PhD work in currently in clinical trials for sciatic nerve repair. She then continued with postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dr. Polina Anikeeva’s bioelectronics laboratory before establishing the BioAugmentative Interfaces laboratory at UBC/ICORD in 2021. The laboratory is at the intersection of materials science, electrical engineering and medicine where the team develops smart biomaterials for tissue modulation, augmentation and/or repair. 

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