Description: 

SMSD SEMINAR SERIES

Soft Materials Structures and Devices

** (Please note the different day and room of this seminar) **

Tuesday, September 26th, 2017, 12:00 pm, Room 3-133

Rapid 3D Printing of Soft Materials for Precision Tissue Models

Shaochen Chen, Ph.D., Professor of NanoEngineering, Bioengineering, and Radiology Departments, University of California, San Diego  

Soft materials such as hydrogels are finding extensive uses in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, it has been challenging to fabricate these soft materials into a scaffold with proper physical, mechanical, chemical, and biological properties, especially at micro and nanometer scale, to support cell/tissue growth. In this talk, I will present my laboratory’s recent research efforts in rapid 3D printing to create 3D scaffolds and tissue models using a variety of biomaterials1. Design, fabrication, and experimental results will be discussed. Such functional biomaterials and micro-physiological systems allow us to investigate cell-microenvironment interactions in response to integrated physical and chemical stimuli. From these fundamental studies we are creating both in vitro and in vivo biomimetic tissue models for regenerative medicine and early drug screening2.

Date: 
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 12:00
Event Location: 
3-133