Research

The Dewey Lab engineers cellular signals for regenerative medicine. We combine biomaterials with extracellular vesicles, which are nano-sized lipid encapsulated cargo secreted by cells for cell-signaling purposes. Specifically, we focus much of our effort on the understanding and application of a new class of extracellular vesicle in regenerative medicine, a type of vesicle found residing in the extracellular matrix termed matrix-bound nanovesicles (MBV). Below, you can find links to the various projects ongoing in the laboratory.

We would also like to thank our funders for providing resources for our work: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (UC), University of California Office of the President, and University of California Santa Barbara