Our vision at The Lab for Cancer Drug Delivery & Cell Based Technologies is to harness biological and engineering knowledge and expertise to design novel medical solutions by means of drug and gene delivery, cell-based and cell-free therapies, as well as biomedical and tissue engineering. We believe that nature, in most cases, has already found ways and mechanisms to combat most diseases, albeit not always as effectively as we would hope. As biotechnology and biomedical engineers, we, therefore, envisage our role as identifying such mechanisms and implementing them in safe and effective technological solutions to better the human condition.
STEM CELL-DERIVED NANO-GHOSTS: A NEW APPROACH FOR FIGHTING CANCER
RESEARCH FOCUS
- Nano-Ghosts: A naturally targeted drug and gene delivery system.
- Regenerative medicine: Developing platforms for tissue engineering based on tailoring natural materials.
- Cultivated meat: Harnessing tissue engineering and food science technologies for the scalable production of meat alternatives.
- Cell encapsulation: Microencapsulation of living cells in a biocompatible and semi-permeable polymeric and natural materials for cancer and diabetes therapy.
- Drug delivery: Micro and nano drug delivery systems for cancer and diabetes therapy.
- Gene therapy: Delivery of nucleic acids to cells and tissues using non viral technologies.
