New Center to Focus on Cell, Gene and Tissue Engineering

Stem cell expert and SUNY Distinguished Professor Stelios Andreadis named inaugural director

A team of researchers in chemical, biological and biomedical engineering have joined forces to develop innovative technologies for regenerative medicine and educate future leaders in the field.

Funded by the UB Provost, the new Center for Cell, Gene and Tissue Engineering (CGTE) will be led by SUNY Distinguished Professor Stelios Andreadis.

SUNY Distinguished Professor Stelios Andreadis.

Andreadis is an expert in stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and is the director of UB’s Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine (SCiRM) Training Program, a joint initiative between the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Division and funded by the New York State Stem Cell Science Board (NYSTEM).

The Center will initially focus on several areas of core faculty expertise, including stem cell engineering, tissue engineering and regeneration; biomaterials; cell and tissue biomechanics; gene, protein and drug delivery (including novel vectors, vaccines and CRISPR technologies), novel imaging technologies; high-throughput data acquisition technologies; BioMEMS; and omics (genomics, proteomics, glycomics) and associated systems, computational and big data engineering.

Core faculty are Sriram Neelamegham, Natesh Parashurama, Sheldon Park and Blaine Pfeifer, from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and B. Rita Alevriadou, Jonathan Lovell, Yun Wu and Ruogang Zhao, from the Department of Biomedical Engineering.