Debanjan Sarkar

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Suny Buffalo Schools of Medicine and Engineering
United States of America

Biography

Development of regenerative therapeutics involves understanding and application of molecular, cellular and tissue engineering principles. Integrated strategies include biomaterials, therapeutic molecules and stem cells to create bioengineered systems for regenerative medicine. Therefore, understanding fundamental interactions between different components and utilizing these concepts will provide tools to engineer tissue regeneration and develop treatment options for diseases. The translational aspect of regenerative medicine depends on proper integration of engineering and medicine. This hierarchical roadmap is tissue or disease specific and thus requires step-wise approaches. Our current goals are to develop strategies for therapeutic angiogenesis, soft and elastic tissue regeneration and delivery of drugs. We are interested to integrate the different components for effective therapeutic strategies

Research Intrest

Cell growth, differentiation and development; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Stem Cells

List of Publications
Sarkar D, Ankrum JA, Teo GS, Carman CV, Karp JM (2011) Cellular and extracellular programming of cell fate through engineered intracrine-, paracrine-, and endocrine-like mechanisms. Biomaterials 32: 3053-3061.
Zhao W, Schafer S, Choi J, Yamanaka YJ, Lombardi ML, et al. (2011) Cell-surface sensors for real-time probing of cellular environments. Nat Nanotechnol 6: 524-531.
Zhao W, Loh W, Droujinine IA, Teo W, Kumar N, et al.(2011) Mimicking the inflammatory cell adhesion cascade by nucleic acid aptamer programmed cell-cell interactions. FASEB J 25:3045-3056.