Laboratory for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Computational Tissue Engineering Interdisciplinary
Graduate Education Program (CTE IGEP)
I serve as the Program Director for the Computational Tissue Engineering
IGEP. This IGEP's goal is to fruitfully exploit the natural synergy
between these two areas to define a new synthesis between tissue
engineering and systems biology. We propose to use the computational
sciences to drive this synthesis. In our vision, seamlessly intertwined
computational and experimental models will drive the next generation of
advances in tissue engineering and in systems biology. Systems biology
approaches will underlie predictive computational models of engineered
tissues and drive novel experimental analyses of engineered tissues,
while the demands of tissue engineering will inspire new experimental
methods in systems biology and novel analysis frameworks in
computational science.
We will train students at the confluence of tissue engineering,
molecular and cell biology, and computational science. Our vision is
that trainees will emerge as the leaders of the trans-disciplinary field
of "Computational Tissue Engineering". They will be equipped to lead and
develop this new field, have the training to span traditional
disciplinary boundaries, and to converse in the languages of tissue
engineering, molecular and cellular biology, and computational science
with ease.