Research that addresses challenges to human health and wellness draws on many engineering disciplines within the school and leverages the University of Georgia’s strengths in allied areas in other units across campus. Investigators are using a combination of computational and experimental methods to study mechanisms of disease initiation and progression, drug discovery and delivery systems, and biomolecular and cellular therapies, including regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Many of the faculty are affiliated with the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT). The objective of the center is to transform the manufacture of cell-based therapeutics, including stem cells, CAR-T cells and cardiomyocytes, into a large-scale, lower-cost, reproducible, and high-quality engineered process for broad industry and clinical use.