CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY CASE SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING

• COLLABORATIONS
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU
• Institute of Pathology, CWRU
• Department of Orthopædics, CWRU
• Department of Bioengineering, Georgia Tech
• RESEARCH SPONSORS
• Case Chemical Engineering Alumni Association
• State of Ohio
• Whitaker Foundation
• National Institutes of Health

Harihara Baskaran ECHE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 111A A.W. SMITH
BUILDING baskaran_at_cwru.edu 216-368-1029
216-368-3016 (fax) http//baskaran.echem.cwru.edu

• RESEARCH AREAS AND APPLICATIONS
• Cell and Tissue Engineering
• BioMEMS
• Tissue-Engineered Skin
• Tissue-Engineered Cartilage
• Cancer Metastasis

• APPROACH
• Microfabrication and microfluidic methods
• Biomaterial characterization
• Transport modeling and optimization
• Optical microscopy
• RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Dermal analogs for tissue-engineered skin
• Scaffolds for tissue-engineered cartilage
• Optimal flow networks for vascular channels in
  tissue-
• engineered products
• In vitro model for breast tumor growth

Granulosum
Spinosum
Collagen-GAG
Capillary Flow Channels in Biomaterial
Tissue Engineered Skin