CONVERGENT RESEARCH VISION & GOALS

The overarching goal of ATP-Bio is to discover, scale up and translate the development of technologies that enable widespread preservation and distribution of cells, microphysiological systems, tissues and organs, and whole organisms, ultimately leading to profound impacts on society in areas spanning healthcare, food supply and sustainability and biodiversity. 

ATP-Bio envisions a world where a vast range of biological systems are preserved in a high throughput manner for a wide range of benefits to humankind and the natural environment.

All our preservation technologies aim to “stop biological time” by lowering the metabolism of the living systems during the preservation period. This is achieved by cooling the systems to temperatures below 0ºC and rewarming them to functional temperatures when needed. Both cooling and rewarming steps can be highly damaging to the products unless some precautions are taken to prepare the samples to undergo these wide temperature changes. Our convergent research team tackles all aspects of these challenges with a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing a wide spectrum of expertise spanning over all institutions.

Convergent Research Team

Convergent Research Faculty

Convergent Research Site Expertise