{"id":4511,"date":"2023-03-28T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=4511"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:57:37","slug":"christopher-chen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/christopher-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026 REU Project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/03\/18\/chen-reu\/\">Comparing Pericyte and Fibroblast Growth in Engineered Vascular Models<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>2026 RET Project:<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/03\/05\/chen-ret\/\"> Engineering 3D Cardiac Muscle Rings<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><strong>Dr. Christopher Chen\u00a0<\/strong>is the principal\u00a0investigator at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrischenlab.com\/lab-members-1\">Tissue Microfabrication Lab<\/a><\/span><span>. The\u00a0lab&#8217;s projects include vascular,\u00a0cardiac, and\u00a0stem cell biology and engineering. Goals of the lab include building biomimetic tissues as\u00a0experimental models and to\u00a0direct tissue\u00a0remodeling and\u00a0regeneration through understanding how adhesive, mechanical\u00a0<\/span><span>and\u00a0biochemical interactions drive cell and tissue function.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous REU\/RET Projects include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2025\/09\/18\/chen-1\/\">Developing Anchoring Methods to Generate and Mature 3D-Engineered Tissues<\/a> (REU, 2025)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cardiac Cell Engraftment in a Cardiac Slice Culture System (REU, 2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/05\/01\/an-in-vitro-model-of-the-infarct-border-zone\/\">An In Vitro Model of the Infarct Border Zone<\/a> (REU, 2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6579&amp;preview=true\">Engineering Vascular Beds that Connect to Ex Vivo Tissue<\/a> (REU, 2023)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Characterizing SynNotch Receptors to Drive Vascularization for Improved Cardiac Regeneration (REU, 2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Optimizing a 2D Culture Device for Characterization of iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes (REU, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Exploratory Study of Contractile Force in Cardiomyocytes (REU, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Biomimetic in Vitro Model to Reveal Endothelial-Fibroblast Interaction (REU\/RET, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?sortby=pubdate&#038;hl=en&#038;user=-6maX04AAAAJ&#038;view_op=list_works' class='button button'>Publications<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4511\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}