Karthikeyan Narayanan

My area of research interest and specialty is tissue engineering more precisely stem cell differentiation using compositional extracellular matrix proteins and biomechanics. Most of the current approach with ECM proteins is more homogenous (using single proteins), however in nature, cells respond to compositional ECM which is rather heterogeneous (multiple components of ECM). In order to simulate the natural biomaterial it is essential to understand the complexity of the ECM.