THE PEOPLE OF CITE
Director : Jonathan Garlick, D.D.S., Ph.D. - Dr. Garlick is Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology as well as Director of the Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering. He also has secondary appointments as Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology at Tufts Medical School and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University Medford Campus.
Dr. Garlick’s expertise in the bioengineering of human 3D tissues led him to establish the Center for Integrated Tissue Engineering (CITE) at Tufts as a resource for experimentation in 3D human tissues. He originally developed these models to study the pathogenesis of a variety of oral and skin diseases using 3D human tissue models including early cancer development. He has authored over 60 articles and book chapters on these subjects.
On the national level, Dr. Garlick has served as Chair and as a member of several NIH grant review panels, is on the editorial board of several scientific journals and has chaired numerous national symposia. In 2000, he was awarded Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in recognition of his local and national contributions to the dental profession. In 2001, he was awarded the President and Chancellor’s Award, the State University of New York’s highest teaching honor for his educational contributions in Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine to the students of Stony Brook University’s Dental School.
Dr. Garlick is a graduate of Stony Brook University’s School of Dental Medicine where he received his dental degree. He completed his residency training in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Tel Aviv University. He then received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University through a Physician-Scientist Award from the NIH. Dr. Garlick remained at Stony Brook for 10 years, where he was Head of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine.
If you have any further questions or would like to contact CITE or Dr. Garlick about possible work, please contact him at (617) 636-2444 or jonathan.garlick@tufts.edu.
Associate Director : Christophe Egles, Ph.D. - Dr. Christophe Egles joined Tufts University in the Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering as an Assistant Professor in July 2005 and serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Integrated Tissue Engineering (CITE). Dr. Egles earned his B.S. in Biochemistry and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. From 1998 to 2001, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT and, later, at Tufts University School of Medicine studied the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying synapse formation during early steps of neural development. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Associate Professor at the University Louis Pasteur, School of Dentistry where he studied the biomedical applications of biomaterials modifying cell/support interface, particularly for regenerative neurobiology or antibacterial protection. At the Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering his research is focused on biofunctionalized artificial matrices, developing wound healing models and creating anti-microbial surfaces for the protection of medical devices.
If you have any further questions or would like to contact CITE or Dr. Egles about possible work, please contact him at (617) 636-2444 or christophe.egles@tufts.edu.
Director of Core Histology Unit : Yulia Shamis, M.Sc. - Ms. Shamis is an expert in histology and light microscopy and an experienced histotechnologist. Ms. Shamis earned her B.Sc. in Biology and her M.Sc. in Cell Biology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she established a novel 3D culture system and subsequently used this technique to study the interaction between normal and tumorigenic cells and the extracellular matrix in 3D environment. She has been instrumental in establishing and maintaining the Histology unit for CITE and will oversee all aspects of tissue processing and staining of 3D engineered tissues. She has a broad experience in culturing normal and cancer cell lines in 2D and 3D cultures and will supervise all tissue culture facilities for the CITE.
If you would like to contact Ms. Shamis, please call her at (617) 636-2478 or email her at yulia.shamis@tufts.edu.
Research and Administration Coordinator : Jennifer Landmann, BBA - Ms. Landmann joined Tufts University in 2004 and has been with the Center for Integrated Tissue Engineering (CITE) since its inception. Ms. Landmann’s primary responsibilities include grant writing and grants management for CITE and the Division of Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering, as well as the day-to-day management of the research lab. Ms. Landmann also works to ensure laboratory compliance with all policies and regulations for hazardous materials, irradiated substances, and animal and human subject research. Ms. Landmann joined Tufts after having served the Muscular Dystrophy Association as the Assistant Health Care Services Coordinator where she helped establish a new chapter of the MDA in the downtown Boston area. Prior to that, Ms. Landmann was a consultant and analyst for a firm in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Landmann has a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of North Texas.
If you have any further questions or would like to contact CITE about possible work, please contact Ms. Landmann at (617) 636-2478 or jennifer.landmann@tufts.edu.