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Guoming Sun and Sharon Gerecht, Johns Hopkins University

Caption: Guoming Sun, left, a postdoctoral fellow, and Sharon Gerecht, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, helped develop a hydrogel that improved burn healing in early experiments.

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