Cell and Tissue Engineering

Focus areas

  • 3D cell culture systems
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Cryopreservation
  • Cell mechanics
  • Cancer

Faculty

A profile picture of Adam Z Higgins.

Adam Higgins

Professor

adam.higgins@oregonstate.edu

Technologies for long-term stabilization of cells, tissues and organs; microfluidic devices for chemical processing of blood.

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Bo Sun

Associate Professor

sunb@oregonstate.edu

Collective distributed sensing by multiple cells, mechanics of tumor and extracellualr matrix, force generation and invasion of cancer cells.

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Kaitlin Fogg

Assistant Professor

kaitlin.fogg@oregonstate.edu

The Fogg Lab aims to develop and exploit high throughput in vitro 3D models of cancer in order to identify novel druggable targets, improve treatment selection of current therapeutics, and reprogram the immune system in the metastatic niche.

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Morgan Giers

Assistant Professor

morgan.giers@oregonstate.edu

Predicting treatment outcomes for intervertebral disc (IVD) regenerative and surgical therapies. Utilizing MRI, image processing, mathematical modeling, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and surgery to study transport phenomena in vivo.