Joining us in this episode is Vivek Kumar, a scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur.

Vivek is ​​faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, and is the Dhiraj Shah Faculty Fellow at the NJIT Albert Dorman Honors College.

As the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and co-inventor of over a dozen patents and applications, Vivek contributes a great deal to both the scientific and entrepreneurial communities.

The Kumar Lab, which Vivek is the principal investigator of, researches the “genetic and neurobiological basis of complex behaviors that are important in psychiatric conditions such as addiction, ADHD, and depression using genomic, neural circuits, and computational tools.”

Click play to hear Vivek discuss:

• Why his lab is investigating hydrogels for tissue and blood vessel regeneration. 
• What “dental pulp regeneration” is. 
• How to approach tissue regeneration. 
• Why wounds heal differently in different areas of the body. 

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Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

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