Affiliation: Ghent University, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Group

Ruslan I. Dmitriev is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Structure and Repair, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. He received his PhD in bioorganic chemistry from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, and received postdoctoral training from University College Cork, Ireland. Before joining Ghent University in 2020, Ruslan has led the Metabolic Imaging Group as a staring investigator/research fellow at University College Cork. Dr. Dmitriev’s research interests are in imaging cellular oxygen gradients and cell metabolism in the three-dimensional tissue models, such as tumor and stem cell-derived spheroids and intestinal organoids, using such multi-parameter live cell microscopy methods as fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and high-performance protein-, bioconjugate- and nanoparticle-based biosensors. Dr. Dmitriev's current work aims at developing advanced tools to study cell metabolic requirements in intestinal organoids and addressing their heterogeneity using imaging-assisted tissue engineering tools.