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Novel Approaches For Enhancing Cell Survival And Function In Vivo, Ou Wang
Novel Approaches For Enhancing Cell Survival And Function In Vivo, Ou Wang
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: Theses and Student Research
FDA has approved several cell-based therapeutics and hundreds of cell therapy clinical trials are ongoing. Cells will be a significant type of medicine after small molecule and protein drugs. However, several obstacles need to be addressed to achieve the widespread use of cellular therapeutics. The first challenge is the low efficacy of cell transplantation due to low retention, survival, integration, and function of cells in vivo. The second challenge is producing a massive number of cells for clinical treatment with cost-effectively and reproducibly technologies.
In this thesis, we proposed and investigated two approaches to address these challenges. To begin …