Christopher Chen**
Professor (BME, MSE)
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon!
2026 RET Project: Engineering 3D Cardiac Muscle Rings
Dr. Christopher Chen is the principal investigator at the Tissue Microfabrication Lab. The lab’s projects include vascular, cardiac, and stem cell biology and engineering. Goals of the lab include building biomimetic tissues as experimental models and to direct tissue remodeling and regeneration through understanding how adhesive, mechanical and biochemical interactions drive cell and tissue function.
Previous REU/RET Projects include:
- Developing Anchoring Methods to Generate and Mature 3D-Engineered Tissues (REU, 2025)
- Cardiac Cell Engraftment in a Cardiac Slice Culture System (REU, 2024)
- An In Vitro Model of the Infarct Border Zone (REU, 2024)
- Engineering Vascular Beds that Connect to Ex Vivo Tissue (REU, 2023)
- Characterizing SynNotch Receptors to Drive Vascularization for Improved Cardiac Regeneration (REU, 2023)
- Optimizing a 2D Culture Device for Characterization of iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes (REU, 2022)
- Exploratory Study of Contractile Force in Cardiomyocytes (REU, 2018)
- Biomimetic in Vitro Model to Reveal Endothelial-Fibroblast Interaction (REU/RET, 2018)
- Departments
- Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science Engineering
- Affiliation
- Faculty
- Program Year
- 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023