Tuba Fehr, Ph.D.
Program Director
This program supports the development and demonstration of broadly applicable cellular and multicellular technologies to enable new paradigms of human health.
Emphasis:
The emphasis is on the development of cellular and multicellular technologies and associated computational models for biomedical intervention.
Projects might focus on:
- elucidating important engineering design rules or key foundational principles underlying future engineering, including the use of computational methods
- prototyping or redesigning platform technologies
- characterizing (in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo) broadly applicable technologies and prototypes
NIBIB interests include but are not limited to:
- synthetic genetic circuits for cellular control and decision-making
- engineered bacteria for microbiome regulation
- engineered T-cells for immune regulation and cancer therapy
- organoids and scaffold-free tissue assemblies for replacing organ function