Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.
Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.
I am a bioengineer focusing on micro and nanofabrication techniques to create new devices for drug and cell delivery as well as biomaterials for cell and tissue regeneration. I am the immediate past chair (7 years) of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, a joint department in...