Vision:
Incubating Solution Integrators: we incubate ambitious young scientists and engineers to learn and make great impacts beyond their own means through integrative cross-disciplinary learning and collaborations.
Mission:
Controlled regeneration of complex epithelial tissues (e.g. liver) for diseased or injured patients. We INTEGRATE (study, source, adapt, and assemble) technologies and knowledges into solutions for complex biomedical problems.
Research Goals:
Establish fundamental biomaterials and complex tissue-engineering principles:
Understand intra-cellular organelle and cytoskeleton dynamics in response to spatially- and temporally presented extra-cellular mechanical and chemical cues.
Precision engineering of micro- and nano-featured cellular niche (supporting cells, extra-cellular matrices, soluble factors, and shear/compression) for complex epithelial tissues.
Cross-scale (nm-mm) imaging and quantification of cellular niche for understanding and controlling tissue regeneration in living organisms.
Develop innovative solutions for biomedical applications:
Predictive in vitro drug testing platforms.
Biology-based imaging modalities for medical diagnostics.
Renewable hybrid liver-support system (rBLAD).
Shared Values:
Respect : every LCTE member is uniquely important and yet can only thrive when consciously sensitive to other members and the collective impacts. Decisions incorporate inputs from all the stakeholders for fairness and transparency.
Professionalism: every LCTE member strives to attain ever higher quality and standard of her/his own work through mutual empowerment, critique and support to each other.
No-walls culture: solutions to real-life problems can never be confined within artificially-created boundaries (organizational, disciplinary, cultural, inter-personal, or mental inertia).
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