Department of Bioengineering
The Hettiaratchi Lab
Biomaterials for protein delivery and tissue engineering
OUR mission
Our mission is to create new biomaterials that can precisely deliver therapeutic proteins that can support regeneration across injuries and tissues.
Our lab combines expertise in chemical and biomedical engineering to design new biomaterials and harness natural affinity interactions to precisely deliver proteins to injured tissues to support regeneration.
Research
Our lab uses a variety of approaches, including directed evolution for protein delivery, cell-instructive biomaterials for bone repair and predictive bio-transport modeling.
People
We welcome new lab members from all backgrounds and recruit through a variety of science and engineering graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Oregon.
Resources
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The Hettiaratchi Lab
Founded in 2020, the Hettiaratchi Lab is a biomaterial and protein engineering research group within the University of Oregon's Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. Based in the Department of Bioengineering in Eugene, Oregon, the Hettiaratchi Lab design biomaterials to control protein delivery to injured tissues.