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SBME Seminar with Dr. Erika Wang – Engineering Modular Platforms Across Scales for Precision Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Delivery
Meeting ID: 93751 402493
Password: 402493
Location: DMCBH 101 Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Building, 2215 Wesbrook Mall
Advances in engineered micro- and nano-scale systems have opened new opportunities in precision medicine, where disease modeling and therapeutic development remain foundational challenges. In this seminar, I will share my research on modular, cross-scale engineering platforms for disease modeling and therapeutic delivery. I will begin by discussing my PhD work on engineered cardiac models developed to understand disease mechanisms and support preclinical drug screening. I will then present my postdoctoral research on programmed delivery platforms for biologics and mRNA therapeutics, which enable controlled delivery in applications ranging from myocardial infarction repair to vaccine delivery. Together, these studies illustrate how modular design principles can be extended across diseases and therapeutic modalities.
Dr. Erika Wang’s Biography:
Dr. Erika Wang is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in the Radisic Lab at the University of Toronto, where she developed engineered cardiac tissue platforms for disease modeling. During her postdoctoral training in the Langer Lab and Jaklenec Group at MIT, Erika integrated micro- and nano-engineering approaches to design programmable drug-delivery systems for tissue regeneration and mRNA therapeutics. Over the course of her training, she has contributed to more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and received over 20 awards, including the CGS-D Doctoral Award and the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikaywang/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=27sTAaoAAAAJ&hl=en