Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

Professor Yupeng Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his bachelor degree from Fudan University and pursued his Masters degree in biomedical engineering and Ph.D. in nanomaterials and nanomedicine at Brown University. Prof. Chen has a long-term interest in translating advances from nanotechnology into clinical applications. In particular, he focuses on engineering self-assembled Janus-base nanotubes into various non-covalent architectures for musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Prof. Chen also serves as the Principal Investigator of several competitive research grants from NIH and NSF. Prof. Chen has won several prestige awards, including the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from NSF in 2017 and the New Investigator Recognition Award from Orthopaedic Research Society in 2013 (he was the top-one awardee selected from 545 applicants all over the world). Prof. Chen also served as a reviewer for NIH musculoskeletal tissue engineering (MTE) study section multiple times and served as the chair of the musculoskeletal tissue engineering session in 2019 BMES annual meeting.

• Section 1: Tissues1. Bone tissue engineering2. Cartilage tissue engineering3. Dental tissue engineering4. Skeletal muscle tissue engineering5. Ligament and tendon tissue engineering6. Meniscus tissue engineering7. Musculoskeletal tissue interfaces8. Hard Tissue and material interfacesSection 2: Technologies9. 3D printing and soft musculoskeletal tissue engineering10. 3D printing and hard musculoskeletal tissue engineering11. Nanomaterials for musculoskeletal tissue engineering12. Biomaterials for musculoskeletal tissue engineering13. Musculoskeletal tissue chips14. Drug delivery and regenerative medicine for joint tissues15. Stem cells for musculoskeletal tissues