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Faculty Experts
Albert Soffa Chair Professor; Director of the Drexel-SARI Center
College of Engineering
Expertise:
mechanical engineering
biomedical engineering
biological engineering
engineering
Contact:
sunwei@drexel.edu
215.895.5810
Sun is a chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of both the Biofabrication Laboratory and Drexel's research center at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on computer-aided tissue engineering, solid free-form fabrication and design and modeling of nanodevices.
His group has developed multi-nozzle printers for biofabrication of tissue and bone scaffolds. He has also developed a process for 3D printing living cancer tumors from cervical cancer cells and hydrogel. Sun has commented on this subject for stories in Fast Company, LiveScience, Philadelphia magazine, and on Al Dia, and BBC.
More information about Sun
For news media inquiries, contact Britt Faulstick at bef29@drexel.edu, 215.895.2617 (office) or 215.796.5161 (cell).
3D cell printing enables investigations into cervical tumour metastasis
Research by Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa professor in the College of Engineering, that is using 3-D printed tumors to study the growth cervical cancer, was featured in an Oct. 24 Physics World story.
Drexel Research Team Spearheads 3-D Printing of Embryonic Stem Cell 'Blocks'
Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa Chair professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned in a Jan. 13 Philly Voice story about his development of a method for 3-D printing embryonic stem cells.
Doctors Could 3D-Print Micro-Organs with New Technique
Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned in a Dec. 1 Live Science post about his work to create a method for 3D printing to grow embryoid bodies in a controlled manner to produce highly uniform blocks of embryonic stem cells.
Drexel Is 3D Printing Live Cancer Tumors
Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in a May 5 Philadelphia magazine blog post about his work to create a method for 3D printing living cancer tumors.
Scientists use 3D printed tumors to help cure cancer
Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in an April 29 post on Al Dia about his research to develop a method for 3D printing cancer tumors.
How 3-D Printing Can Help To Cure Cancer
Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned in April 28 posts on Fast Company’s FastCo Design blog, Gizmag.com and Geek.com posts about his research to develop a method for 3D printing cancer tumors.
Bioprinting Stem Cell 'Building Blocks'
Using a special designed extrusion printer he created to squeeze out a mixture of hydrogel and stem cells, Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in Drexel’s College of Engineering, is making strides toward rapid prototyping the building blocks of life. His process, which was recently published in Biofabrication gives scientists a head start at growing living three-dimensional tissues and could one day be used to create micro-organs for research purposes.