With faculty positions both at NC State and UNC, Dr. Cheng will help to bridge opportunities across the region in the area of regenerative medicine. Dr. Binil Starly is a Chancellor’s Faculty of Excellence Program cluster hire in Regenerative Medicine. He directs the Data Intensive Manufacturing Laboratory. As a manufacturing engineer, Dr. Starly will be able to identify, develop and find resources needed to build key platforms to help translate engineered cell, tissue and organ systems to an industrial scale operation. Such enabling platforms will allow for the automation and standardization of processes involved with either scaling-out or scaling-up regenerative medicine therapies for eventual impact at the bed-side.”