Arafat Fasuyi

Arafat Fasuyi is a graduate student. Her ongoing research is focused on cell engineering technologies in tissue engineering and regeneration, especially in the liver. Arafat is working on improving extracellular matrix parameters like biomaterial composition, peptide combinations, basement membrane proteins, and so on to better understand and prevent hepatocyte transdifferentiation when encapsulated in hydrogels. This work will allow further in-vitro and in-vivo applications in liver tissue engineering for engineered liver tissues. Currently, she is exploring peptide-conjugated hydrogels and other biological hydrogels.