Kristi Anseth
Tisone Professor and HHMI Investigator
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
University of Colorado
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Research in the Anseth group focuses on the rational design of biomaterials for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing applications. In our approach, we exploit photopolymerization techniques to synthesize materials under physiological conditions with temporal and spatial control. Our research spans areas related to the synthesis of new multifunctional macromolecular monomers to studying and modeling properties of degradable biomaterials to understanding how cells receive information from biomaterial microenvironments to manipulating biomaterial niches to promote tissue regeneration to fabricating microfluidic devices for cell culture to functionalizing biomaterials for rapid biological detection schemes. The common thread in this research is controlling the chemical, biological, and physical properties of biomaterials from the molecular to macroscopic scale, thus enabling us to probe fundamental biological questions and use this information in targeted applications. Researchers in our laboratory come from various disciplines with backgrounds in polymer chemistry and physics, biochemistry, chemical engineering, bioengineering, molecular and cellular biology, and the clinical sciences.