Forum Abstract

The importance of materials has been increasingly recognized in a wide range of biomedical applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering and stem cell engineering. Due to the complexity of biological systems, it can be challenging to rapidly identify materials with desirable biological properties using conventional low throughput, iterative design approach.  On the other hand, high throughput approaches could offer several advantages, including decreased cost and the increased possibility of discovering new materials with desirable properties. Dr. Mei will describe recent work in developing high throughput approaches for rapid nanoliter scale synthesis of thousands of biomaterials. The high throughput testing of their chemical, material, and biological properties will also be described. This technology has been shown to accelerate the discovery of materials that can direct a variety of stem cell behaviors.

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