Yah-el Har-el

Faculty members Peter Lelkes, Yah-el Har-el and Jonathan Gerstenhaber from Temple University’s College of Engineering have been working for over a decade to bring us closer to the future of wound care. The research team has discovered a way to engineer soy proteins into a nanofibrous wound dressing, called OmegaSkin, which could change the lives of patients suffering with major ailments such as severe burns, diabetic wounds, bed sores and other large lesions.

1. Introduction Organoids have become increasingly useful in recent years by providing researchers with both complex models for studying organ development and robust disease models [1]. After decades of experience using “simple” 2D monolayer cell cultures for in vitro studies, it has become increasingly apparent that more complex tissue culture systems are needed to accurately recapitulate the structure and function of nascent and mature human tissues.