Alyse R. Gonthier

1 Introduction The native biological response to implanted materials continues to limit the benefits of biomedical devices (Anderson et al., 2008; Ward, 2008; Mariani et al., 2019). While this reaction, called the foreign body response, is evolutionarily beneficial, modern medical advancements often seek to artificially manipulate it in order to maximize device efficacy (Veiseh et al., 2015; Chu et al., 2020; Kharbikar et al., 2021).