Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Zhengpeng Wan is a research scientist in Prof. Roger D. Kamm’s lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, where he studied B lymphocyte activation by mechanical forces in Prof. Wanli Liu’s lab. His current research focuses on using microphysiological systems to engineer vascularized tissues for disease modeling. This includes generating stable cell sources for microvascular network formation, developing new devices and strategies to improve the perfusability of engineered vessels, establishing vascularized tumor-on-a-chip models for evaluating chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, investigating the role of vasculature in tumor microenvironments, and creating vascularized organoid models to study liver and neurological diseases.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EST