Gabor Forgacs, Ph.D.
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Research Interests
My research is focused on the physical mechanisms in cell and development biology.
Research Description
In particular we study (both experimentally and by computer modeling) the biomechanical (i.e. viscoelastic) properties of cells and tissues and their relevance to morphogenetic shape transformations. Current activity is concentrated on the application of these physical mechanisms to "organ printing" a fundamentally new approach to tissue engineering, whereby, sperical cell aggregates with composition appropriate for the particular organ (the bioink) are delivered (with a modified ink-jet printer) according to the organ's anatomical blueprint into biocompatible scaffolding gels (the paper).
Professional Background
- Ph.D. Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Hungary and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia
Selected Publications
- Toward engineering functional organ modules by additive manufacturingFrancoise Marga, Karoly Jakab, Chirag Khatiwala, Benjamin Shepherd, Scott Dorfman, Bradley Hubbard, Stephen Colbert and Gabor Forgacs
Biofabrication. 4 022001 (12pp) (2012). - Tissue engineering by self-assembly and bio-printing of living cells Karoly Jakab, Cyrille Norotte, Francoise Marga, Keith Murphy, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and Gabor Forgacs Biofabrication. 2, 1–14 (2010).
- Scaffold-free vascular tissue engineering using bioprintingCyrille Norotte, Francoise S. Marga, Laura E. Niklason, Gabor ForgacsBiomaterials. 30, 5910–5917 (2009).
- Tissue engineering by self-assembly of cells printed into topologically defined structuresKaroly Jakab, Cyrille Norotte, Brook Damon, Francoise Marga, Adrian Neagu, Cynthia L. Besch-Williford, Anatoly Kachurin, Kenneth H. Church, Hyoungshin Park, Vladimir Mironov, Roger Markwald, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and Gabor Forgacs
Tissue Engineering. 14, 413-421 (2008).
