Paint Our Research

Tree of Life

We engineer 3D hydrogels to modulate cell-niche interactions, regenerate lost tissues, and create disease models for drug discovery.
Artist: Fan Yang

Conversations

Cells are constantly communicating with each other. We can eavesdrop on them and interpret these conversations with tissue engineering tools!
Artist: Abena Peasah.

The Crabs Cycle

Like crabs, constantly scuttling from place to place, metabolites are constantly moving through the Krebs cycle, dictating a cell's phenotype.
Artist: Callie Weber.

Life is a Highway

Cells adhere and migrate in microribbon hydrogels like cars driving on a multilane highway.
Artist: Callan Monette.

Microribbon Pollock

An abstraction of the process of printing microribbons with sacrificial microgelatin particles, cells growing, and bone formation.
Artist: Bryan Wong.

Good vs. Evil

Microribbon hydrogels modulate the war between "good" and "evil" macrophages, to support bone regeneration through immunomodulation.
Artist: Cassandra Villicana.

Swimming in Honey

Glioblastoma cells migrate in 3D brain-mimicking hydrogels by pushing and slashing through viscoelastic polymer networks, guided by nutrient gradients.
Artist: Mark Fleck.

Breathing Life

Particles on the micro-ribbon hydrogel release oxygen, breathing life into cells and promoting bone regeneration.
Artist: Michelle Jansman.

Interfaces

Modeling the invasion of breast cancer invasion into bone at the tissue interface, like where the land meets the sea.
Artist: Michelle Tai.

Dancing on a String

Just as a puppeteer controls a marionette’s movements by adjusting the tension of its strings, tuning matrix compliance directs stem cell differentiation like dancers on a string.
Artist: Patrick Lee.

Ribbon Warriors

CAR T cells delivered from a microribbon hydrogel, migrating towards cancer cells displaying target antigens.
Artist: Regina Sanchez Flores.

Cells secreting E(Sea)M

Chondrocytes reside in hydrogels and produce seaweed as extracellular matrix, E(Sea)M.
Artist: Sarah Jones.

Cells in Line

Bioprinted microribbon hydrogels guide endothelial cells into aligned tubular structures.
Artist: Sungwon Kim.

Home Sweet Home

Osteosarcoma cancer cells thrive in the 3D microribbon culture, retaining their unique traits and diversity, unlike in conventional 2D culture.
Artist: Jeehee Lee