Min Lee, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Section of Biomaterials Science in the Division of Advanced Prosthodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry. His primary research area is to design and fabricate biomimetic polymer systems for tissue regeneration and drug delivery applications, particularly focusing on orthobiologics, customized scaffolds, injectable hydrogels, and controlled release.

Biomaterials processing and characterization

Computer-aided tissue engineering (CATE)

Bone regeneration with biomimetic apatites and novel osteogenic factors

Cartilage regeneration with injectable systems

Intestinal tissue engineering

Protein and non-viral gene delivery systems for complex tissue regeneration

Targeted nanoparticles for anti-cancer drug delivery

Lee J, Choi B, Wu B. Lee M. Customized biomimetic scaffolds created by indirect three-dimensional printing for tissue engineering. Biofabrication 5(4):045003, 2013. PMCID3852984 Fan J, Park H, Tan S, Lee M. Enhanced osteogenesis of adipose derived stem cells with noggin suppression and delivery of BMP-2. PLoS One 8(8):e72474, 2013 PMCID3744499 Park H, Choi B, Hu J, Lee M. Injectable chitosan hyaluronic acid hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering. Acta Biomaterialia 91(1):4779-86, 2013. Hu J, Hou Y, Park H, Choi B, Hou S, Chung A, Lee M. Visible light crosslinkable chitosan hydrogels for tissue engineering. Acta Biomaterialia 8(5):1730-38, 2012. Lee M, Wu BM. Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds. Methods in Molecular Biology 868:257-67, 2012