Innovation at the intersection of materials and biological chemistry

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David A. Tirrell, tirrell@caltech.edu, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125
Innovation at the intersection of materials and biological chemistry has been fostered by an increasingly substantive exchange of ideas and approaches across the boundaries between these two fields. Materials chemists are using biological concepts and biological processes in new ways, while the biological sciences community has expanded its engagement with the physical sciences and engineering in order to gain new insights into biological behavior. This discussion will examine several illustrative examples, with an emphasis on new developments in biomaterials, protein therapeutics, and proteomic analysis.