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Dr. Kaplan has been conducting studies on biomaterials and tissue engineering over the past 13 years, and has studied structural proteins and polysaccharides over the past 18 years. He has focused on engineering fibrous proteins as scaffolds for tissue engineering, and on developing new approaches toward modification of biopolymer structures to modify function. He runs the recently awarded and constructed W. M. Keck Foundation Laboratory on Biomimetic Materials Characterization as well as the Biotechnology Center at Tufts University and is Principal Investigator of the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University. The preliminary data for Serica's technology was collected in Dr. Kaplan’s laboratory at Tufts University’s Biomedical Engineering Department. Dr. Kapla | 