Welcome to the Ma Lab for Translational Biointerface Design!
As a group of interdisciplinary scientists, engineers, and clinicians, we aim to design translational biointerfaces to manage, understand and prevent pathological progression in diverse diseases, including various types of wounds and cancers.
Featured Publications
Controlled tough bioadhesion mediated by ultrasound, Science (2022).
Bioinspired tough gel sheath for robust and versatile surface functionalization. Science Advances (2021).
Multifaceted design and emerging applications of tissue adhesives. Advanced Materials (2021)
Bioinspired printable tough adhesives with in situ benignly triggered mechanical enhancements. Advanced Functional Materials (2024)
Integrating hydrogels and biomedical plastics via in situ physical entanglements and covalent bonding. Advanced Healthcare Materials (2025)
Biomimetic micropatterned adhesive surfaces to mechanobiologically regulate placental trophoblast fusion. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2019)
News
Dr. Ma will be joining the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor.
Our work on engineering hydrogel-plastic hybrid medical devices is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials.
Our work on printable tough adhesives is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Land Acknowledgement
With gratitude, we acknowledge that our place of work is located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of Indigenous Coast Salish people, including the Squamish, Musqueam, Stó:lō, Tsleil-Waututh, and Stz’uminus Nations.
