CENTER FOR INTEGRATED TISSUE ENGINEERING (CITE)
AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE
CITE houses state-of-the-art facilities that enable tissue fabrication and processing on a broad scale and enhances the Tufts University research environment in the following ways:
- CITE provides experimental support to scientists by allowing fabrication of 3D, in vivo-like tissues and offers tissue analyses to assist investigators in the interpretation of their findings.
- CITE assists in the development of replacement tissues for application in Regenerative Medicine and Dentistry and serves as a hub for areas of parallel investigation throughout the Tufts campus.
- Experimentation in CITE provides the basis for more reliable correlations between in vitro studies and in vivo outcomes during human clinical studies. As such, tissues generated through CITE provide a “pre-clinical,” experimental setting that accelerates development of translational products for clinical application. Thus, CITE serves as a basic science link to clinical dentistry and medicine by making basic research accessible to eventual delivery of patient care.
- Bioengineered, human tissues fabricated in CITE serve as a platform technology for the pharmaceutical design and screening of drugs targeted for specific therapeutic applications to treat human disease.
CITE is housed in the laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Garlick, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director of the Division of Cancer Biology
and Tissue Engineering, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. It is located on the Boston Health Sciences Campus,
in the South Cove Building, Room 116. Associate Director for CITE, Dr. Christophe Egles, will be joining the faculty
of TUSDM as Assistant Professor in July 2005.
Contact information:
Dr. Jonathan Garlick, 617-636-2444 Email: Jonathan.Garlick@tufts.edu
Jennifer Landmann, Administrative Assistant, 617-636-2478, Email: Jennifer.Landmann@tufts.edu