Tracking Cancerous Cell Scatter
Asthagiri group :: Design Principles for Engineering Cell Systems
Our lab elucidates design principles for engineering living cells and tissues. These design principles provide a foundation for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The implications extend beyond engineering artificial organ replacements. Synthetic multicellular structures that mimic their natural counterparts provide better platforms for drug discovery and screening. In addition, elucidating how multicellular structures assemble provides deeper insights into how these structures fall apart in diseases, such as cancer. Understanding the disassembly of multicellular structures sheds new insights into cancer development and helps to identify therapeutic strategies to re-shape diseased tissue.
Research areas:
- cell and tissue engineering
- cell-biomaterial interactions
- cancer biology
- engineering morphodynamics