Bio-X Seminar - Forces, form and stem cell function: Mechanotransduction at the cellular and multicellular scale

Speaker: Christopher Chen, University of Pennsylvania. Christopher S. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., is the Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering, and a faculty member of the Cell Biology and Physiology Program and Cell Growth and Cancer Program.  As director of the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, Dr. Chen has published substantially on using semiconductor manufacturing tools to control interactions between mammalian cells and natural or artificial microenvironments.

The goal of Dr. Chen's research is to identify the underlying mechanisms by which cells interact with materials and coordinate with each other to build tissues, and to apply this knowledge in the biology of stem cells, endothelial cells and cancer.