Micro- and Nanoengineering of the Cell Surface

Chapter 12

Micro/Nano-Engineering of Cells for Delivery of Therapeutics

Oren Levy, Edward Han, Jessica Ngai, Priya Anandakumaran, Zhixiang Tong, Kelvin S. Ng and Jeffrey M. Karp,    Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Center for Regenerative Therapeutics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Cell-based therapies hold a great promise for treatment of a wide array of tragic diseases. Specifically, the use of cellular vehicle platforms emerges as a powerful strategy for targeted delivery of therapeutics to sites of disease. In this chapter, we ...