Research
Regenerative Medicine
Develop scaffold-based grafts that can induce organ regeneration. Study stem cell culture and differentiation inside scaffolds.
Understand wound healing regulation via grafts.
Focus on Central Nervous System injuries (e.g. Spinal Cord Injury)
Implantable Devices
Develop scaffold-based implants for targeted delivery of therapeutics or devices.
Tissue Models
Develop physiologically relevant in vitro models of tissues based on scaffold-based tissue constructs.
Porous Collagen-Based Scaffolds
Develop novel methods for precise scaffold microfabrication.
Optimize and characterize scaffold physicochemical properties.
Model and simulate the (mechanics, biological) response of scaffolds and scaffold-based tissue constructs.
Biomechanics & mechanobiology
Model and quantify cell-matrix interactions and matrix biomechanics that drive physiology, pathology and wound healing.
Robotics
Design of medical and biological robots.
Robot microfabrication.
Modelling and control of robot-biomaterial and robot-tissue Interactions.
Imaging & Modeling
Analytic and in silico modeling of cell-matrix systems.
Quantification of 3D tissue constructs via fluorescence microscopy / spectroscopy and image processing.