2nd Annual Engineering Functional 3-D Tissue Models 2013

3-D tissue models provide a means for repetitive, systematic and quantitative investigation of drugs, serving as platforms for screening of drugs as well as pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic analysis of drugs.

Key Topics

• Use of 3-D Porous Natural Polymer Scaffolds for in vitro Tumor Microenvironment Models
• Emerging Technologies for Assembly of Microscale Hydrogels
• 3-D Intestinal Tissue Models
• Carbon-Nanotube-Embedded Hydrogel Sheets for Engineering Cardiac Constructs and Bioactuators
• From iPSC to 3-D Skin Equivalents: Dynamic Platforms to Study Human Disease
• Tissue Models of Disease and their Potential for High-Throughput Screening
• AlgiMatrix™-Based 3-D Cell Culture System as an in vitro Tumor Model for Anticancer Studies
• Next-Generation Bioengineered 3-D Human Tissue-Equivalent Platform System to Validate High-Volume Vaccine Production
• Drug Uptake and Diffusion in 3-D Multicellular Microtissues
• Inhibition of KRAS-Driven Tumorigenicity by Interruption of an Autocrine Cytokine Circuit
• Customized 3-D Cell Cultures and Assays Showcase

Who should Attend

Engineers, biologists, pharmacologists.