2023
Dec 19 - Nice job Adi, on your presentation at the MSK seminar series!
Dec 8 - Congrats Nick on successfully defending your Master’s thesis!
Nov 9 - Congrats to the lab on 4 accepted ORS abstracts!
Sep - Welcome Tristan Pepper, a Georgia Tech/Emory BME PhD student, and Lauren Foster, an Emory undergrad!
Sep 19 - Fantastic presentation by Hanna at the Emory MSK seminar series, on guiding cartilage repair microenvironments!
Sep 14 - Congrats to Jay on being recognized for Emory SOM Research Appreciation Day! (Link)
Aug 28 - Congrats to Maddie, Hanna, and Adi on their ORS abstract submissions!
Aug 26 - Congrats to Riley, Gail, and the rest of the team on their publication in Bioengineering! (Link)
Summer - Congrats to former lab members on their next positions! Riley - Mass General; Mike - NEOMED (med student); Gail - Intuitive Surgical
May 9 - Jay presents collaborative work with Dr. John Peroni at the REM Retreat at Georgia Tech!
May 7 - Congrats Riley on graduating with Highest Honors in Chemistry!
Apr 19 - Adi and Bereket present their work at the undergraduate research symposium.
Apr 18 - Congrats to Maddie on being awarded the Trevor E Stokol Scholarship! (Link)
Apr 4 - Nice presentation Nick at the Emory MSKRC Trainee Seminar Series!
Mar 31 - Congrats to Maddie on being selected for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship! (Link)
Mar 24 - Congrats to Riley on defending her Senior Thesis with highest honors!
Feb 14 - Congrats to Adi Pucha and Nick Huffman on great poster presentations at the ORS Annual Meeting in Dallas!
Feb 12 - Congrats to Jay on being selected as Chair-Elect of the ORS Meniscus Section!
2022
Nov 15 - Congrats to Adi Pucha on being selected to the 2023 Class of Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars!
Oct-Nov - Congrats to the Emory Women’s Soccer Team for a successful season and a trip to the Sweet Sixteen. Special shoutout to our very own Riley!
Oct 18 - Jay presents the lab’s work on cartilage preservation at the Society of Engineering Sciences Meeting in College Station TX.
Oct 13 - Posters led by Mike and Lorenzo are presented at the BMES meeting in San Antonio!
Oct 1 - Congratulations to Bereket on obtaining an Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the Fall 2022 semester!
Sep 30 - Congratulations to Mike, Lorenzo, and team on their recent manuscript in Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine!
Sep 23 - The lab attends the 4th Annual Emory Musculoskeletal Research Symposium!
Sep 16 - Adi and Jay present their work at the Southeast Biomaterials Day.
Sep 1 - The lab welcomes Riley and Bereket, two Emory undergraduates to the lab!
Aug 11 - The lab’s work on MFx augmentation is presented at the MSK Gordon conference in New Hampshire.
Aug 4 - Congrats Adi on completing your Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) at Emory and presenting your work!
July 21 - The lab has 2 BMES abstracts accepted to the Annual Meeting - see you in San Antonio!
May - June - Welcome Hanna (research specialist), Gail (research specialist), and Joe (undergrad) to the lab - we’re growing!
May 19 - The lab’s first preprint and research manuscript is published on bioRxiv! Congrats Mike and team!
May 18-19 - The lab’s work is presented at the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM) Retreat and at Atlanta VA Research Day.
May 9 - Welcome Nick Huffman to the lab - a Georgia Tech Master’s student!
April 20 - Adi presents his work on fiber-reinforced scaffolds at the Emory Biology/NBB Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Mar 23 - The lab’s work is presented at the VA Biofabrication Community of Science (BCoS) virtual meeting.
Mar 21 - Adi is accepted into the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program at Emory - congrats Adi!
Feb 25 - Jason Bariteau and Jay Patel receive a Research Grant from the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society! (Link)
Feb 24 - Lorenzo presents his work on Microfracture contraction, fibrinolysis, and fibrosis at the Emory University Postdoctoral Symposium!
Feb 7-8 - Mike and Maddie’s posters are presented at the ORS 2022 Annual Meeting!
Feb 4 - Opinion piece of meniscal repair impediments accepted to Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
2021
Nov 29 - Mike’s abstract on cartilage fortification and catabolism prevention was accepted to the ICRS 2022 World Congress!
Nov 10 - Two Patel Lab abstracts were accepted to the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting!
October 1 - The lab receives an Intent to Award for its first grant - a Career Development Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs!
September - Jay presents the lab’s work at Brown University’s COBRE Lecture Series, the CVNR Seminar Series, and the Atlanta VA Monthly Research Meeting. Valuable data and input from the lab included!
September 1 - Adi starts in the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Adi!
August 30 - Mike and Maddie submit the first 2 ORS abstracts for the Patel Lab!
August 27 - The lab attends the annual MSK Symposium at Emory!
August 5 - Lorenzo wins the ON Literature Grant for a systematic review on bone marrow stimulation techniques!
August 5 - Maddie presents her summer work on MFx clot contraction at the SURE symposium!
June 1 - Lorenzo starts as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab - Welcome Lorenzo!
May 4 - Sonia Bansal’s (Penn) manuscript on meniscus injury in a minipig model accepted into the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.
April 22 - Research images selected for the Inside Cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials! (Link)
March 4 - Anthony Martin (Penn), Jay, and colleagues have an article on nanofibrous scaffolds delivering growth factors for cartilage repair accepted into Acta Biomateriala.
March 2 - Mike and Jay’s review manuscript on the current state of meniscal repair is accepted into the Journal of Orthopaedic Research!
March 1 - Maddie is accepted into the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at Emory to continue her work over the summer. Jay’s manuscript on cartilage stabilization via reinforcement and sealing is accepted into Advanced Healthcare Materials!
February 12-16 - The Patel Lab attends ORS! Jay also begins his term as Education Chair of the ORS Meniscus Section!
2020
December 16 - The Patel Lab started setting up equipment and supplies, and made our first gel!
October 9 - Cartilage tissue engineering work on resorbable pins to fix scaffolds published in Cartilage.
September 11 - Cartilage stabilization work presented at the Penn Cartilage Repair Symposium.
September 1 - Jay starts as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at Emory University.
August 25 - Work on tissue engineering at multiple length scales presented during a TERMIS-AM Webinar.
July 24 - Jay co-moderated a webinar on “The Future of Meniscal Repair”, organized by the ORS Meniscus Section.
February - The lab is awarded a Kickstarter Grant from the Orthopaedic Research Society and the Orthoregeneration Network. This award funds research on the mechanobiology behind composite scaffolds.
2019
October - Work on cartilage stabilization is awarded a Cum Laude Award at the International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation (ICRS) World Congress.
September - Jay started a Career Development Award (CDA-1) with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The award will be transferred to the Atlanta VAMC starting September 2020.