Our group develops new platform technologies for cell and gene therapy. To this end, we converge knowledge and techniques of cell/gene/tissue engineering, drug delivery, biomaterials, micro/macro-fluidic bioreactors, transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, computational biology, and bioprocess engineering. Our lab collaborates extensively with biology and clinical experts in hematology, oncology, rheumatology, surgery, and infectious disease to design and execute IND-enabling studies in support of human trials. Animal models of these disease areas are created in-house and pre-clinical studies of experimental therapeutics are performed using advanced principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. The research is conducted with a mindfulness of regulatory science and intellectual property for potential opportunities to translate the work with industrial partners or as a new venture.
Program Faculty
- Biju Parekkadan
- Professor
- Department: Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Graduate Program(s): Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Immunology, Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Tissue Injury
- Research Techniques: Biophysics, Cell culture, Genetic engineering
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, Humans, in silico, in vitro, Mice
- Phone: 1.8484456563
- Email:
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- Biomedical Engineering Building, Room 303
- 599 Taylor Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854-5610
- Key Words: Cell and Genetic Engineering
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