Laura De Laporte

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Laura De Laporte is a Junior Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Her fields of expertise are biotechnology, biomaterials, and animal surgery. In 2009, De Laporte received her PhD from Northwestern University, working on the use of biomaterials in the field of tissue engineering. More specifically, De Laporte examined post-injury spinal chord regeneration. In her current research project, De Laporte continues to work on this topic, looking at how biomaterial scaffolds can be developed to aid the regenerative process.