Professor Kristopher Kilian

Professor Kristopher Kilian

Professor
Science
School of Chemistry

Prof Kris Kilian is Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials & Matrix Engineering (LAB&ME) with a joint position across the School of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science & Engineering in the Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney. He is co-Director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) and a member of the Adult Cancer Program in the Prince of Wales Clinical School. He worked for Merck Research Labs in the Methods Development group from 2000-2004 before travelling to...

Phone
+61-2-9385 6998
E-mail
k.kilian@unsw.edu.au
Location
740 Hilmer Building (E10)

  1. We are an interdisciplinary research group at UNSW Sydney with a broad goal to design materials that unravel ‘matrix structure-cell function’ relationships. Inspired by biological materials, we integrate nano- and micro- fabrication techniques with synthetic chemistry to mimic the physical and chemical properties of the cell and tissue microenvironment. Our overarching strategy is to:
  1. Develop synthetic model systems to address fundamental questions in cell biology.
  2. Use the output from 1 to design biomaterials that direct a functional outcome for commercial and clinical translation (e.g., cell differentiation and de-differentiation)

All our efforts are centred on the idea that cell state and fate is ruled by inherent cell plasticity and the context in which multivariate signals are presented.

Current projects include:

  • Designer matrices for stem cell manufacture
  • iPSC derived organoid bioengineering
  • Tumor microenvironments and models for drug development
  • Tissue engineering for lab-grown meat
  • 4D Biofabrication
  • Dynamic hydrogels and mechanochemistry