Center for Personalized Cellular Technologies
Physical and engineering sciences offer new strategies for tackling longstanding challenges in biomedicine. The Center for Personalized Cellular Technologies supports  the targeted development of molecular, cell, and tissue-scale technologies that leverage unique capabilities from researchers at UT Austin.  ​
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Our Approach
Biological systems share characteristics with engineered systems: hierarchical organization, modular structures, redundancy, feedback controls, and tolerance to noise, among others.  But cells and tissues also differ from the traditional subjects of engineering applications in important ways. They are heterogeneous and complex at all levels, with dynamic elements that change and undergo transitions due to nonlinear interactions among the component parts. Biological systems, such as cancers, also evolve and adapt in response to intrinsic and extrinsic conditions. New technologies are needed to analyze complex biological systems in preclinical and translational studies, so that these key design principles can improve clinical interventions. 

Our Focus Areas

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Personalized Cell & Tissue Models 

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Cell Barcoding & Clonally-Resolved Genomics

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AI-assisted Live Cell Phenotyping

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