Materials Science and Engineering Seminar - Professor Cole DeForest of the University of Washington (Building 6, Room 104)

Engineering heterogeneous multicellular tissue with native complexity remains one of the holy grails of regenerative medicine and basic biological research. As success in this regard would yield powerful bioengineered constructs useful in functional transplantation, high-throughput drug screening, and fundamental biology investigation, research efforts in the University of Washington’s Cole A. DeForest’s lab have centered on developing and implementing tools to spatiotemporally customize living cell function both from the “outside-in” and from the “inside-out.” In this talk, DeForest will disc