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Paint Our Research
Tree of Life
We engineer 3D hydrogels to modulate cell-niche interactions, regenerate lost tissues, and create disease models for drug discovery.
Artist: Fan Yang
Artist: Fan Yang
Conversations
Cells are constantly communicating with each other. We can eavesdrop on them and interpret these conversations with tissue engineering tools!
Artist: Abena Peasah.
Artist: Abena Peasah.
The Crabs Cycle
Like crabs, constantly scuttling from place to place, metabolites are constantly moving through the Krebs cycle, dictating a cell's phenotype.
Artist: Callie Weber.
Artist: Callie Weber.
Life is a Highway
Cells adhere and migrate in microribbon hydrogels like cars driving on a multilane highway.
Artist: Callan Monette.
Artist: Callan Monette.
Microribbon Pollock
An abstraction of the process of printing microribbons with sacrificial microgelatin particles, cells growing, and bone formation.
Artist: Bryan Wong.
Artist: Bryan Wong.
Good vs. Evil
Microribbon hydrogels modulate the war between "good" and "evil" macrophages, to support bone regeneration through immunomodulation.
Artist: Cassandra Villicana.
Artist: Cassandra Villicana.
Swimming in Honey
Glioblastoma cells migrate in 3D brain-mimicking hydrogels by pushing and slashing through viscoelastic polymer networks, guided by nutrient gradients.
Artist: Mark Fleck.
Artist: Mark Fleck.
Breathing Life
Particles on the micro-ribbon hydrogel release oxygen, breathing life into cells and promoting bone regeneration.
Artist: Michelle Jansman.
Artist: Michelle Jansman.
Interfaces
Modeling the invasion of breast cancer invasion into bone at the tissue interface, like where the land meets the sea.
Artist: Michelle Tai.
Artist: Michelle Tai.
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