Ester J. Kwon

@esterjkwon

Associate Professor of Bioengineering at UCSD engineering nanoscale materials for the brain.

San Diego, CA kwon.ucsd.edu Joined March 2015

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Ester J. Kwon @esterjkwon Jul 17, 2023

Excited to join in on this fun panel on the Science of Superpowers at San Diego Comic-Con. #SDCC23

Melissa Truth Miller @melissatruth Jul 13, 2023

Join us at @Comic_Con as real-life scientists chat about our favorite superpowers, origin stories, and super cool tech. Bring your questions!
#IFTHENComicCon #SDCC #SDCC23 #STEAM

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Ester J. Kwon @esterjkwon Jul 3, 2023

Our collaboration with @ChristmanLab on promoting vascular integrity in brain injury with an infusible extracellular matrix biomaterial is out in Advanced Healthcare Materials! doi.org/10.1002/adhm.2… Work led by talented PhD students @mdanae13 and @kandell_rebecca

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Infusible Extracellular Matrix Biomaterial Promotes Vascular Integrity and Modulates the Inflamma... An infusible extracellular matrix-derived biomaterial (iECM) is used for the treatment of acute traumatic brain injury. Intravenous delivery of the iECM 30 min post-injury shows the accumulation of...

Ester J. Kwon @esterjkwon May 2, 2023

Excited to share a few papers from our group this past month:
Lipid nanoparticle delivery in TBI
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…
Sensing TBI-associated protease activity from urine
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
A review on nanomaterial delivery across dysfunctional BBB
doi.org/10.1016/j.addr…

Ester J. Kwon @esterjkwon Apr 20, 2023

Check out our lab's presentations at #SFB2023 by Rebecca Kandell (Th 2:45 PM), Jason Wu (Th 3 PM), Marianne Madias (Th 5 PM), and Katelyn Miyasaki (Sat 10:30 AM)! @SFBiomaterials @kandell_rebecca @KatelynMiyasaki @mariannemadias

Ester J. Kwon @esterjkwon Aug 26, 2022

Our collaborative work with Prof. Michael J. Sailor freely available as an ACS Editors' Choice Article. Porous Silicon Nanoparticles Targeted to the Extracellular Matrix for Therapeutic Protein Delivery in Traumatic Brain Injury pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

pubs.acs.org Porous Silicon Nanoparticles Targeted to the Extracellular Matrix for Therapeutic Protein Delivery... Abstract. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability and death among children and young adults in the United States, yet there are current