We share the VISION of EDUCATING ambitious young scientists and engineers to make impacts beyond individual efforts through team projects and collaborative learning in academia and industry.
RESEARCH MISSION: Understand and control liver regeneration and chronic disease progression. We TRANSLATE technologies and knowledges into solutions for drug development, diagnostics and therapeutics.
Research Goals:
Quantitative analysis of the dynamic process of liver regeneration and chronic liver diseases.
Investigating the formation and dynamic maintenance of inter-cellular tissue space such as bile canaliculi and sinusoids that define liver functions.
Developing novel and useful biomaterials, cell sources, and analytics for long-term maintenance of highly functional liver cells in culture.
Developing robust, scalable, low cost and predictive in vitro drug and pathogen testing platforms.
Shared Values:
Respect : every LCTE member is important and yet 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). |
News & Events:
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Professor Hanry Yu now serves as an Associate Editor of Biomaterials, the leading journal in biomaterials and in biomedical engineering.
New Book Releasing:
Imaging in Cellular and Tissue Engineering. [about this book]
Latest Awards:
Congratulations to Hanry Yu has been awarded Scientist-Entrepreneur Award, InvitroCue Pte Ltd.
Congratulations to the graduation of Drs. Wenhao Tong, Qiushi Li, Shuoyu Xu, Lu Yin, Junjie Wang, Huipeng Li, Abhishek Ananthanarayanan and others who were awarded PhD degree recently.
Congratulations to Jiangwa Xing has been awarded YSTA 2015 – Young Scientists Travel Award 2015
Latest Publications:
Farah Tasnim, Yi-Chin Toh, Yinghua Qu, Huan Li, Derek Phan, Narmada BC, Abhishek Anantharayanan and Nikhil Mittal published a paper to report the use of 3-Dimensional (3D) cellulosic scaffold system for the culture of hPSC-HLCs and showed that culturing hPSCHLCs in 3D cellulosic scaffolds increases functionality, as demonstrated by improved urea production and hepatic marker expression. In addition, hPSC-HLCs in the scaffolds exhibit a more mature phenotype, as shown by enhanced cytochrome P450 activity and induction. Functionally enhanced human stem cell derived hepatocytes in galactosylated cellulosic sponges for hepatotoxicity testing. Molecular Pharmaceutics, in press. Epub 8 May 2016.
Ming Ni and Shuangmu Zhuo published a review paper to review the currently available four categories of probes and existing methods to improve the performance of probes. Fluorescent Probes for Nanoscopy: Four Categories and Multiple Possibilities. Journal of Biophotonics, in press. Epub 24 May 2016.
Inn Chuan Ng, Pornteera Pawijit, Lee Ying Teo, Huipeng Li, and Shuying Lee published a paper to demostrate that kinectin-dependent endoplasmic reticulum (ER) distribution can be localized by chemoattractants and provided a mechanism for biased protrusion choices during chemotaxis in shallow gradients. Kinectin-dependent endoplasmic reticulum transport supports focal complex maturation for chemotaxis in shallow gradients. Journal of Cell Science, in press. Epub 25 May 2016.
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