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Maud Gorbet (Chair, Biomedical Engineering Committee): In my lab we're interested in understanding
how cells and materials interact, and understanding the biology behind those interactions. The
first step is usually doing in-vitro experiments, which are basically experiments that are taken
place into tubes, and then usually moved to animal models and eventually human models.
When you try to do in-vitro models with the drug delivery systems, you usually just look
at having the material releasing the drug in a big glass of something, of saline solution.
But when you think about the human body, it's often not what happens, you're usually either
in the blood system, or you're in your tissue, not our cells. So what we try to do is that we're
developing in-vitro models that represent that environment. In the long run, what we
want to do is we're about to improve the life of those people that are going to be wearing
medical devices.