Purdue Tissue and Cellular Engineering Initiative

Potential Scientific Thrusts
Scaffolds: xenogeneic, synthetic, cell/biomaterial interfaces and signaling, degradation,
biocompatibility, coatings, channels, etc.

Cells/Tissues/Organs: harvesting, culture,
growth, differentiation, morphogenesis,

angiogenesis, metabolism, attachment, orientation,
apoptosis, immunologic issues, stem cell biology

Tissue Biomechanics: cell-cell and cell-scaffold interactions, mechanical and structural
modifications, translation of model systems to
clinical practice.

Seminars

Chemistry | BIOL | MCMP | BMS

Nanotechnology | BME | ME | Bioinformatics

Research Cores

Cytomic & Imaging | Proteomics | Genomics

Computational Life Sciences & Informatics

	The research areas are initially organized into five themes.
		Instrumentation & Tools Biomaterials Molecular Cellular Tissue

Potential Scientific Thrusts (Cont.)
Bioactive Molecules: growth and regulatory factors, cytokines, structural and functional
proteins, immune modulators, antibacterial peptides, etc.
Genomics and Proteomics: gene expression and analysis, gene therapy

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