Cell & Tissue Engineering
Research in Cell & Tissue Engineering at Carnegie Mellon encompasses the mechanical events of single cells, multicellular systems, and subcellular structures.
Three main focus areas within Cell & Tissue Engineering include Cellular Mechano-Sensing & Actuation, Mechanics of Biomolecular Structures, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
Some projects apply engineering approaches to understand mechanical properties of the cell, while other projects reveal mechanical properties critical for applications like tissue engineering. Faculty members interact extensively with those in areas of computation, image processing, modeling, materials, microfabrication, and microfluidics to apply a rich set of research tools to cell and tissue level biomedical problems.
Rosalyn Abbott
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Cell & tissue engineering; biomaterials; adipose microenvironments; disease modeling; tissue regeneration
Christopher J. Bettinger
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests
BioMEMS for tissue regeneration; biodegradable electronic devices; biomimetic tissue-device interfaces; biomaterials synthesis; microfabrication of biomaterials
Phil G. Campbell
Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Research Accelerator, Biological Sciences, and Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests
Bioavailability and proteolytic processing of growth factors; musculoskeletal tissue repair and regeneration; biomimetic tissue engineering materials
Michael M. Domach
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
High throughput systems for cell growth analysis; optimization of bioreactor performance
Adam W. Feinberg
Arthur Hamerschlag Career Development Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests
Tissue regeneration in neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems; self-assembly and multi-scale coupling in biological systems; cell-material interactions; protein-based materials; bioprosthetics; stem cell differentiation and engineered morphogenesis
Noelia Grande Gutierrez
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Bioengineering, computer-aided design (CAD), biomechanics, fluid mechanics, medical laboratory technology
Carmel Majidi
Clarence H. Adamson Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Robotics Institute, and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
Elastically soft sensors and circuits; soft multifunctional materials; soft lithography fabrication
Tagbo Niepa
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Biomaterials, biotechnology and pharmaceutical engineering, colloids, machine learning, microfluidic systems, nanomaterials, polymer engineering, pulmonary diseases, soft materials and complex fluids, transport phenomena, infection control, microbiome engineering
Xi (Charlie) Ren
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Vascular engineering; extracellular matrix engineering; cardiopulmonary engineering; whole organ decellularization and regeneration
Stefanie A. Sydlik
Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Materials chemistry; graphene; stem cells; tissue regeneration; cell-instructive material
Robert D. Tilton
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
Research Interests
Nanoparticle probes; nanoparticle-cell interactions; environmental effects of nanoparticles; surfactant-based carriers for pulmonary drug delivery; protein adsorption and protein drug delivery; cell sorting technologies
Yu-li Wang
Mehrabian Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Mechanical interactions between cells and the environment; mechanisms of cell migration and division; cellular mechanical activities; synthetic polymeric materials for cell, tissue, and organ engineering
Newell R. Washburn
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests
Computational biomedical engineering; machine learning
Victoria Webster-Wood
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Bioinspired robotics; biohybrid robotics; cell & tissue engineering; biomaterials; organic actuators; organic control
Kathryn A. Whitehead
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
Drug delivery; personalized medicine; bionanotechnology
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences
Research Interests
Bioengineering, cell and tissue engineering, diagnostic and therapeutic, expansion microscopy, nanoscale
Siyang Zheng
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Microfluidics/BioMEMS, nano-biotechnology, cancer diagnosis and treatment, infectious diseases, implantable devices
