CIMIT Forum: Towards the Next Generation of Biomaterials and Chemical Approaches to Control Cellular Response

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Towards the Next Generation of Biomaterials and Chemical Approaches to Control Cellular Response

7.6.2010

SPEAKER:
Jeffrey Karp, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Principal Faculty member, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

MODERATOR:
Frederick Schoen, MD, PHD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Harvard Medical School; CIMIT Site Miner, BWH

Forum Abstract

Jeffrey Karp will explore technologies that are currently being developed in the KarpLab to control cellular responses in in-vitro and vivo towards solving important medical problems: namely, enhancing engraftment of exogenously delivered stem cells, achieving long term local drug delivery for treatment of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and glioblastoma, and development of surfaces to separate cells for disposable point of care diagnostics and for cell therapy.