Ipsita Banerjee

Ipsita Banerjee

Ipsita Banerjee
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Biography

Ipsita Banerjee is a faculty in Chemical Engineering department of University of Pittsburgh. Adjunct faculty of Bioengineering Department, University of Pittsburgh. Adjunct faculty of McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. She has completed three years of post-doctoral training in Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, (2005-2008). She received her PhD from Rutgers University, NJ (2000-2005). She received the NIH New Innovator Award and the Ralph Powe Faculty Enhancement Award. She currently has fourteen publications in reputed international journals. She is a reviewer for Tissue Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Journal of Biotechnology, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Journal of Integrative Biology, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. She serves on the review panel of National Science Foundation, Biomedical Engineering Division.

Research Interest

Embryonic stem cell differentiation
iPS cell differentiation
Diabetes
Systems Biology
Analysis of regulatory network of differentiating stem cells
Optimization based algorithm for network identification
Agent Based Modeling for differentiation patterning.