The Bakar Fellows program selects Professor Phillip Messersmith’s project, “Gel Protection During Tumor Ablation” for Spark Awards. You can find the full story here: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/31/Bakar-Fellows-program-selects-seven-projects-for-Spark-Awards?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=877452a58e-berkeleyan_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-877452a58e-388726349

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Fetal Surgery Stands to Advance From New Glues Inspired by Mussels by Catalina Estrada June 30, 2016 UC Berkeley engineer Professor Phillip Messersmith is happy to be learning lessons from a lowly mollusk, with the expectation that the knowledge gained will enable him and fellow physicians to prevent deaths among their youngest patients — those…

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Professor Phillip Messersmith Co-Authors Paper on Drug-Induced Tissue Regeneration by Materials Science and Engineering June 8, 2015 Professor Phillip Messersmith has co-authored groundbreaking research showing that a primitive form of tissue regeneration can be harnessed to achieve spontaneous tissue regeneration in adult mice, without the need for stem cells. The study findings were reported in Science…

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