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Dr. Christopher Moraes

Academic title(s): 

Assistant Professor, Department聽of Chemical Engineering
Associate Member, Department of Medicine

Dr. Christopher Moraes
Contact Information
Address: 

Cellular Microenvironment Design Lab
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3610 University Street, Room 4330聽
Montreal, QC, H3A 0C5

Phone: 
(514) 398-4278
Email address: 
chris.moraes [at] mcgill.ca
Current research: 

Microscale tissue engineering presents us with unique opportunities to take a constructivist approach to biological systems. The Moraes lab develops microfabricated cell culture tools to simultaneously understand fundamental cell-microenvironment interactions, and construct highly realistic models of biological tissues 鈥渙n-a-chip鈥. Recent research activities have used this approach to study the brain, placenta, lung, gut, and breast cancer.

Projects: 

1. Mechanobiological disease progression at the micro-scale: we have developed sensors to 鈥榤ap鈥 evolving tissue mechanical properties at the cellular length-scale, and are using these sensors to understand the mechanical basis for disease progression in multiple conditions.

2. Robust and increased-throughput tissue engineering: how do we translate tissue engineering from an artisanal enterprise towards the rigour, throughput, and robustness needed for drug screening applications?

3. Leveraging developmental mechanobiology for stem cell differentiation: by recreating the mechanical patterns of morphogenesis that accompany development, can we improve our capacity to bioengineer models of developmental tissues?

Selected publications: 

Research areas: 
Biomedical Engineering
Cancer
Neuroscience
Reproduction
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