Faculty | Gabor Forgacs

Gabor Forgacs

George H. Vineyard Professor
office: 420 Physics Building
phone: 573-882-3036
email: forgacsg@missouri.edu
education: Ph.D., Eotvos Roland University Budapest, 1978
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Research Interests

Biological Physics

My research is focussed on the physical mechanisms in cell and developmental biology. In particular we study (both expereimentally 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, spherical cell aggregates with composition appropriate for the particular organ (the bioink) are delivered (with a modified ink-jet printer) acccording to the organ's anatomical blueprint into biocompatible scaffolding gels (the paper).