ABSTRACT: Regenerative medicine offers great hope in curing many currently untreatable diseases. Tissue engineering and stem cell therapy are the two main components of regenerative medicine. In this talk, I will discuss how engineering can make contributions to this highly interdisciplinary field, including biomaterials as 3D scaffolds, bioreactor design, and stem cell bioprocessing.
Bio-Sketch: Professor Hua (Cathy) Ye, University of Oxford
Dr. Ye is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Deputy Director of the CRMI Technology Centre for Regenerative Medicine in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at University of Oxford. Dr. Ye holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China and a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in stem cell bioprocessing (expansion and differentiation) and biomaterials and bioractors for tissue engineering. Projects include engineering 3D human neural networks, smart bioreactors for cell expansion and 3D cancer model.