Abstract:  We are witnessing the dawn of an era of personalized medicine, driven by technological advances in cell therapy, immunotherapy, and regenerative medicine. In this era, bioengineering capabilities that enable precise control and biofunction design, both at the cellular and tissue levels are increasingly becoming important, especially with regards to supporting patient-specific therapeutics and drug development. This talk will highlight our past and ongoing research efforts to develop enabling microengineering technologies for biofunction design at the cellular and tissue levels, and will showcase potential biomedical applications in cancer immunotherapy, regenerative medicine, and drug development.

Biography: Dr. Okeyo is currently a technical information scientist (TIS) and a project manager at Jackson Laboratory Japan. He obtained his PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2010 and thereafter worked for two years as a researcher at the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd, Japan. He then became an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the university of Tokyo in Japan before moving to Kyoto University as a senior lecturer in charge of teaching and research supervision. Most recently he was a visiting scholar at Prof. Paul Robinson’s lab affiliated with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University.

~ BME Host: Young Kim ~

NOTE: Students registered for the seminar are expected to attend in-person.

Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/97556297644?pwd=SEJQOWMySnkzQWhGRlF4SW1XYjViZz09