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Rong Fan's Biography



Rong Fan, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University

Dr. Rong Fan is the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University and Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and completed the postdoctoral training at California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Yale University in 2010. His current interest is focused on developing microtechnologies for single-cell and spatial omics profiling to interrogate functional cellular heterogeneity and inter-cellular signaling network in human health and disease (e.g., cancer and autoimmunity). He co-founded IsoPlexis, Singleron Biotechnologies, and AtlasXomics. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Bio-Techne. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the National Cancer Institute’s Howard Temin Career Transition Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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Microfluidic Microvasculature for Tissue Engineering

Monday, 9 February 2015 at 16:00

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A major challenge in tissue engineered organ transplantation is revascularization. How to fabricate a perfusable microvascular network in neotissue to support the tissue growth in vivo is crucial. We are working to address this problem by developing a two-step approach for synthesizing neotissues with perfusable microvasculature. First we use a microfluidic system to create a large-scale endothelialized microvessels that can be retrieved to form a free-standing microvascular network. Second, this microvascular network is used as a template to seed perivascular and tissue specific cells to grow neotissues. This modular approach is generic and versatile for the potential application to a range of functional tissues including liver, bone, and pancreatic tissues.


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