Yolanda Garcia

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Yolanda Garcia is a lecturer in the Discipline of Anatomy in the National University of Ireland, Galway's (NUIG) since 2007. She has recently completed her postdoctoral degree in the discipline of Biomedical Engineering and collaborates closely with the Network of excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) as a principal investigator. Her work is focused on the development of enzymatically cross-linked functionalized scaffolds for wound healing applications. She received her Bachelor Degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Santiago de Compostela University, Spain and has completed various courses as part of the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements of the Veterinary Council of Ireland and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the UK. Her areas of expertise include dermal wound healing, functionalized tissue engineered scaffolds and dermal regeneration. In addition she is a co-applicant on several Research Grants in the NFB Research group and a co-supervisor of several post graduate students within the same group.

Research Interests:

1. Dermal Wound Healing
2. Extracellular matrix
3. Soft Tissue Repair
4. Collagen Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
5. Elastin-like Polypeptides
6. Controlled Drug/ Therapeutic Agent Release
7. Dermal Regeneration

Education:

• Oct 2003-2009:           Doctor in Philosophy on Biomedical Engineering.
• Jun 1993:                   Doctor in Veterinary Medicine (DVM)

Employment:

• Oct 2007 to date:        Lecturer in Anatomy Discipline.
• 2003-2009:                 PhD student.
• 2000-2003:                 Veterinary surgeon in Charles River/Biological Laboratories Europe Ltd.
• 1995-2000:                  Veterinary Surgeon, PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals) Birmingham, UK.

Publications:

1. Rooney, G. E., McMahon, S. S., Ritter, T., Garcia, Y., Moran, C., Flügel, A., Dockery, P., O’ Brien, T., Howard, L., Windebank, A.J. and Barry, F.P. Neurotrophic Factor-Expressing Mesenchymal Stem Cell Survive Transplantation into the Contused Spinal Cord without Differentiating into Neural Cells.  Tissue Engineering part A, volume 15, No:00, 2009 (Epub).
2. McMahon, S. S., Albermann, S., Hynes, J., Rooney, G.E., Moran, C., O’Brien, T., Garcia, Y., Dockery, P., Windebank, A. J. and Barry, F.P. Effect of cyclosporin A on functional recovery in the spinal cord following contusion injury. Journal of Anatomy 215(3):267-79, 2009 September
3. Garcia, Y., Hemantkumar, N. Collighan, R., Griffin, M. Rodriguez-Cabello J.C. and Pandit, A. “In-vitro Characterization of a Collagen Scaffold Enzymatically Cross-linked with a Tailored Elastin-Like-Polymer” Tissue Engineering Tissue Engineering Part A, volume 14, number 00, 2008.
4. McMahon, S. S., Albermann, S., Garcia, Y., Hynes, J., Dockery, P., Rooney, G.E., Shaw, G., O’Brien, T., Windebank, A. J., Allsopp, T.E. and Barry, F. P..  Engraftment, Migration and Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells in Contused Rat Spinal Cord. Submitted to Cytotherapy.
5. Garcia, Y., Wilkins, B., Collighan, R., Griffin, M. and Pandit, A. ’Towards Development of a Dermal Rudiment for Enhanced Wound Healing Response.’ Biomaterials. 2007.29(7):857-868.
6. Garcia, Y., Breen, A., Burugapalli, K., Dockery, P., and Pandit, A. ’Stereological Methods to Assess Tissue Response for Tissue-Engineered Scaffolds.’ Biomaterials. 2007. 28(2): 175-186.

7. Garcia, Y., Collighan, R., Griffin, M., and Pandit, A. ’Assessment of Cell Viability in a Novel Cross-linked Scaffold for Tissue Engineering Applications.’ J. Mater Sci Mater Med. 2007: 18(10): 1991-2001.

Journal Reviewer:

Biomaterials

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B. Applied Biomaterials (3 manuscripts)

Journal of Biological Physics

Trends in Biotechnology

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine

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