The Center for Surgery, Innovation & Bioengineering engages in the basic sciences, clinical medicine and engineering to solve everyday biomedical challenges for patients. Our team of clinically-inspired engineers, physicians and biologists, among others, use creative scientific approaches to improve health care delivery and further the use of personalized medicine, minimally invasive therapies and new technologies for today’s and tomorrow’s diagnostics and treatments.
The center arises from Massachusetts General Hospital’s clinical research and is the vehicle to support the expansion of the overlapping expertise of three longstanding and successful research and innovation centers:
- The Center for Engineering in Medicine
The center focuses on artificial organ development, biopreservation, metabolic engineering, stem cell bioengineering, microfabrication and nanotechnology, drug delivery and tissue repair
- The BioMEMS Resource Center
The center focuses on bridging technological advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biomaterials and biochemical analysis with biological research and clinical diagnostics and treatments
- The Mass General Burn Research Center
The center focuses on how to understand the human body’s responses to injury, including the critical role of nutrition in burn care, methods for immediate wound excision and closure in severely injured patients, and the development of artificial skin