The TTEC faculty is committed to training tomorrow’s leaders in regenerative medicine. Our pedagogical efforts benefit the Hopkins community at large by bridging multiple educational programs, departments, schools and campuses, thus acting as a conduit for the cross-pollination of ideas. In particular, our faculty teach in the Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Material Science & Engineering programs as well as in the Institute for NanoBioTechnogy.
TTEC faculty members also lead the Translational Cell & Tissue Engineering and Immunoengineering focus areas for Undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD. students that are part of our #1 ranked Biomedical Engineering Program. Below is a list of the programs in which we teach. If you are a current or prospective student and are interested in the classes we teach, please scroll down or click here.
At any one time, TTEC Core Faculty directly provides world class training to 80 to 100 young investigators ranging from the undergraduate to post-doctoral levels and our Affiliated Faculty actively many more of tomorrow’s leaders in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. For more information on training opportunities and accomplishments of our current trainees, please scroll down or click here.
Classroom Teaching
Discovery encompasses all elements of regenerative medicine: cells, materials, biological and developmental signals, and clinical practice.
Big data: Future breakthroughs will depend on rapid advances of technology for high-throughput generation—and interpretation—of experimental data at all scales.
Multiscale discovery, control, and systems modeling: Computational modeling is needed to integrate experimental data from one or more scales (e.g. the nanomolar scale) to predict biological behavior at larger scales (cell to tissue to whole organism scales).
Educational Mission and Opportunities
The education mission of TTEC is centered in the BME where we have a presence at the Undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. levels. Specifically, we lead the Translational Cell & Tissue Engineering (TCTE) and Immunoengineering (IE) focus areas in BME’s Undergraduate Program; we similarly lead TCTE & IE at the Master’s level as well as in the Ph.D. program (here are links to TCTE and IE). As provided in these links, there are rich classroom-based educational opportunities for our students with classes taught by the Whiting School of Engineering departments that include Applied Mathematics, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
“Hallmark” courses taught by TTEC faculty
Advanced Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering (EN.580.643) – Warren Grayson
Learn how the current state of Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering applies to bone, cartilage, and skeletal muscle tissue engineering
Advanced Topics in Regenerative and Immune Engineering (EN.580.7520 – Kevin Yarema
Learn current methods, basic research, and clinical translation of regenerative medicine and immunoengineering technologies
Biomaterials I (EN.510.316) – Hai-Quan Mao
Learn principles and properties of polymeric and soft materials for biomedical applications
Cellular Engineering (EN.580.441/641) – Jordan Green & Kevin Yarema
Learn principles and applications of cell engineering, focusing on learning how to manipulate cells at a molecular level to investigate fundamental biology and treat disease
Cell & Tissue Engineering Laboratory (EN.580.452 & EN.580.754) – Jess Dunleavey & Kevin Yarema
Learn “hands on” mammalian cell culture s well as applications ranging from gene transfection, metabolic engineering, basics of cell-substrate interactions, and how to encapsulate cells
Biomedical Applications of Glycoengineering (EN.580.444/644) – Kevin Yarema
Learn about how sugars are involved in almost all aspects of biology and how they can be manipulated to treat disease
Immunoengineering Principles and Applications (EN.580.453) – Josh Doloff
Learn how to design cell/tissue-based systems for modulating immune response to treat disease
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials: Design, Synthesis, and Applications (EN.580.420/720) – Scott Wilson
Learn the chemistry, immunology, materials, and engineering fundamentals needed to modulate immune response to prevent and treat disease
Microfabrication Laboratory (EN.520.495) – Andreas Andreou & Jeff Wang
Learn principles of microfabrication for microelectronics, sensors, MEMS, and other synthetic microsystems used in medicine and biology
Molecular Immunoengineering (EN.580.646) – Jamie Spangler
Learn how to use biomolecular engineering tools to manipulate immune function for clinical translation
Tissue engineering (EN.580.442/742) – Warren Grayson & Annie Kathuria
Learn how to apply engineering fundamentals to design biological tissue substitutes used in regenerative medicine
To find out more about these courses, please use the JHU Public Course Search tool (e.g., to find out the next time they will be taught)
Research Training
Overview of TTEC’s Research Training Mission
Considering that TTEC is a research institute at its core, its strongest educational component is the research training it provides to junior investigators at levels ranging from high school students to post-docs.
Research opportunities for Ph.D. students and post-docs in a wide range of tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and immunoengineering projects are available in our Core and Affiliate faculty’s labs. If you are interesting in joining one of our labs, please contact the PI directly to discuss current opportunities.
If you are a Johns Hopkins Undergraduate or Master’s student, you can gain academic credit by conducting research in our labs.