Srivatsan Kidambi
Associate Professor Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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OTHM 207
Lincoln NE 68588-0643 - Phone
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402-472-4443 On-campus 2-4443
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skidambi2@unl.edu
Research interests
Key challenges in regenerative medicine, effective cancer treatment, and systemic drug delivery still remain to be answered by reconstitution of tissue microenvironments in vitro that sustain phenotypic function of primary cells. Student projects in the Kidambi laboratory capitalize on multidisciplinary collaboration with biochemists and cell biologists to generate and systematically characterize specific three-dimensional coculture constructs. Students generate constructs to test different polymer materials, randomly or specifically patterned surfaces, and individual or combined stromal-epithelial cell cultures to optimize conditions for testing basic signaling mechanisms and/or effective drug delivery.