Lavik Lab

Yale University

Malone Engineering Center

55 Prospect Street

New Haven, CT 06511

 
 

Our lab focuses on developing new therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury, glaucoma, and retinal degeneration

 

We combine tissue engineering approaches, polymer synthesis and processing, stem cell biology, and drug delivery to develop new approaches to study and treat injuries to and diseases of the central nervous system. We build three dimensional tissue models that give us insight into the healthy and diseased nervous system, and then use these insights to develop new approaches to treatment.

Current Research projects include:

  1. •Engineering angiogenesis after spinal cord injury

  2. •Building three dimensional models of the neural stem cell niche

  3. •Fabricating synthetic platelets to stop bleeding after injury

  4. •Modifying the environment after optic nerve injury to promote repair

  5. •Engineering new retinal tissue

  6. •Sustained delivery of timolol maleate for glaucoma