CBB
CREATE
Series:
Interdisciplinary
collaboration
research
in
regenerative
medicine
Speaker:
Dr.
Evelyn
Yim
Description:
Collaborative research among engineers, clinicians, basic scientists, commercial partners is an essential component of regenerative medicine research and development of tissue-engineering applications. In the talk, I will be discussing examples on interdisciplinary research in vascular and corneal tissue engineering. Student researchers and trainees are instrumental for the interdisciplinary research. I will also talk about the potential (and important) roles of student researchers in interdisciplinary projects.
Speaker Biography:
Evelyn Yim received her Ph.D. in the Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University before performing undergoing her post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Between 2007 and 2015 Evelyn worked in Singapore, where she held a joint appointment from the National University of Singapore, as faculty in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, and the Mechanobiology Institute Singapore, a Research Center of Excellence supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore, as a principle investigator studying how chemical and biomechanical cues influence stem cell behavior.
Evelyn joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in 2016. Experienced with nanofabrication technologies and stem cell culture, Evelyn and her group are interested to apply the knowledge biomaterial-stem cell interaction to direct stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration for vascular and corneal tissue engineering.