
Murat Cirit
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA, USA
Biography
Murat Cirit, PhD, is a Research Scientist at MIT & Director of the Translational Systems Pharmacology Team and System Integration Task in the DARPA-PhysioMimetics program (“Human Physiome on a Chipâ€) led by Prof. Linda Griffith. Murat completed his PhD at NCSU focusing on systems biology of growth factor-mediated signal transduction pathways. After completion of his PhD, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry focusing on preclinical drug discovery for oncology. His main research experience is systems pharmacology, systems biology, tissue engineering, cell biology and signal transduction networks. His current focus as the scientific lead is integrating various scientific fields to build interacting MPSs by interfacing platform engineering & tissue engineering for pharmacology studies.
Abstract
Abstract : Human Physiome on a Chip: Integration of Tissue Engineering and Systems Pharmacology