Kennedy Okeyo's Biography

Kennedy Okeyo, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University

Dr. Kennedy O. Okeyo is currently a senior lecturer at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University. He graduated with a PhD in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, and worked briefly in a company thereafter. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests includes tissue engineering, biomicrofluidics, and cellular biomechanics, with specific focus on stem cell function manipulation based on cell-material interactions.

Integrating Microfluidics and Tissue Engineering for Organ-on-a-Chip Applications

Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 14:00

Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-04 14:00:002017-10-04 15:00:00Europe/LondonIntegrating Microfluidics and Tissue Engineering for Organ-on-a-Chip ApplicationsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

Organ-on-a-chip continues to attract a great deal of attention owing to their potential application in drug development, disease modeling and basic biological studies. For these applications, it is important to develop realistic on-chip organ models which recapitulates tissue-specific, differentiated functions of many cell types for accurate prediction of in vivo tissue functions and drug activities. This talk will introduce our strategy of combining microfluidics and tissue engineering approaches toward fabrication of tissue/organ models in which several cell types are in direct interaction, hence enabling the realization of tissue-level cell-cell interaction, which is important for recapitulating in vivo tissue functions. We will also highlight recent progress in step-by-step fabrication of higher-order tissue models achieved by the mesh culture technique, and on-going integration with microfluidics to enable disease modeling and, potentially, drug activity monitoring.

Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-02 00:00:002017-10-04 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics: Emerging Themes, Technologies and ApplicationsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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