Multiscale biofabrication for sustainability and engineering biology
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Multiscale biofabrication for sustainability and engineering biology
Wed, 23/04/2025 - 15:00 to 16:00
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Speaker:
Shery Huang
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Synopsis:
The impact of technology on the life science and biomedical field has been truly remarkable. Whilst these innovations have direct health and economic benefits in the near and intermediate terms, current life science discovery and medical research development could be resource and carbon intensive, which might not be sustainable in the long term. This presentation will illustrate my group’s research work on three themes (i) organ-on-a-chip, organoid, tumoroid bioassembly; (ii) 3D printing of soft and biological materials; and (iii) fibre biofabrication for wearable sensors and bioelectronics. I will also discuss an outlook on how multiscale biofabrication can be harnessed to broaden the impacts of system ‘engineering biology’ - through creating more complex in vitro models, and to make sustainable e-textile or imperceptible bioelectronic interfaces for living systems.
Biography:
Prof. Huang completed her MEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London in 2007. With a Cambridge Gates Scholarship, she then pursued a PhD in Physics at Cambridge, focusing on carbon nanotechnology and experimental soft & biological matters. She was a visiting researcher at University of Texas at Austin (2008). After graduating from the PhD in 2011, she was awarded an Oppenheimer Fellowship and a Homerton College Junior Research Fellowship. she started as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Bioengineering at Cambridge in Aug 2013. As Oct 2022, she is the Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge.