BE SEMINAR – Philip Scumpia, MD, Ph.D.

Speaker: Philip Scumpia, M.D.
Affiliation: Department of Medicine

*Please note all spring 2020 seminars will be online and hosted on ZOOM.

Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3578398609

Using immunomodulatory biomaterial scaffolds to guide wound healing, tissue regeneration, and vaccine responses.

The immune system is the first responder to injury. While the immune system protects against foreign invaders, it can also contribute to tissue damage, scarring, and foreign body responses to implanted biomaterials. Still, the immune response in the correct context is required to properly orchestrate tissue repair. We created a tissue engineering technology that mimics the natural structure and porosity of the extracellular matrix of tissue for multiple clinical applications, including cutaneous wound healing. We discovered that while limiting immune responses can result in tissue scaffold properties that accelerate wound healing, eliciting the correct type of immune response from the biomaterial can trigger cutaneous regeneration. Our goals are to tune immune responses through this immunomodulatory biomaterial platform to design both regenerative immunotherapies and more potent vaccines.

Biography

Dr. Scumpia received a BS in Microbiology and Cell Sciences from the University of Florida. He received his M.D. and PhD. from the University of Florida where he studied the immunobiology of sepsis. He completed his residency and fellowship training in Dermatology and Dermatopathology at UCLA. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCLA where he studies how innate and adaptive immune responses and the nervous system are activated by bacterial pathogens, cutaneous injury, and biomaterials in the skin and how to develop this understanding into potential therapeutics. He is currently a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the Society of Investigative Dermatology where he is the Co-Director of the Innate Immunity, Microbiology, Microbiome symposium.

Seminar Flyer

Date/Time:
Date(s) - May 21, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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