Stem cell mechanobiology for cardiac regeneration [ 2018 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Yu Suk Choi (Principal investigator)

Brief description The emerging interdisciplinary field, mechanobiology, is focused on understanding how cells sense their surroundings and transfer biomechanical signals to initiate cellular changes. I aim to develop hydrogel platforms with differential stiffness patterns to study cellular mechanotransduction and to generate heart muscle cells. The findings have the potential to greatly improve the clinical outcomes where more than 10 clinical trials failed to show successful regeneration after heart attack.  

Funding Amount $431,000.00

Funding Scheme Career Development Fellowships

Notes RD Wright Biomedical CDF