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Research Areas
Cell & Molecular Bioengineering
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The molecular and cellular networks that compose cells and tissues fundamentally determine the emergent properties that shape the physiology of healthy organs and pathological tissues that cause diseases, like neurodegeneration and cancer. Their complexity requires novel and integrated approaches that span scales, ideas, and techniques. Pushing the boundary of knowledge in the direction of understanding molecular, cellular, and tissue systems will allow us to gain the insight required to build better therapies.
This program seeks to develop innovative approaches for treating disease by manipulating molecules, cells or systems. For example, diseases associated with misfolded proteins, such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, could be treated by understanding and eventually modifying how proteins fold into their complex three-dimensional, functional configurations. A better understanding of most biological processes is likely to depend upon system-wide approaches at all levels.
Primary Faculty
![Cory Berkland](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Cory_Berkland_OPT.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Developing new therapeutics and biomaterials for improving human health
![Jianmin Cui](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Cui_Jinamin.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Aims to design ultrasound protocols for drug & gene delivery
![Yifan Dai](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Yifan-Dai.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Decodes and encodes the physical chemistry of biological soft matter to understand biology and engineer precision medicine
![Nathaniel Huebsch](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Huebsch_Nate.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Focuses on basic & translational stem cell mechanobiology
![Rohit Pappu](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Rohit%20Pappu.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Uncovers the biophysical principles of intrinsically disordered proteins & their connection to cellular processes
![Barani Raman](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Raman_Baraniharan.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
His lab's electronic nose technology has applications for homeland security
![Jai Rudra](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Jai-Rudra.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Designs biomaterials for vaccine development and immunotherapy
![Jin-Yu Shao](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Shao_Jin-Yu.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-y=0.45)
Works to further understand infectious & inflammatory diseases
![Jonathan Silva](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Jon_Silva.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
Creating better ways to treat cardiac arrhythmia
![Michael Vahey](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Vahey-Mike.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-y=0.25&fp-z=2.3&fp-x=0.55)
Uses imaging & microfluidics to understand infectious disease
Affiliate Faculty
![Jennifer Alexander-Brett](images/Jennifer-Alexander-Brett.jpg)
![Ghazal Ashrafi](../../images/Ghazal-Ashrafi.jpg)
![Randall Bateman](images/bateman-randall1.jpg)
![Philip Bayly](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Bayly_Phil.jpg?w=120&h=120&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
![Carmen Bergom](images/Carmen-Bergom.jpg)
![Matthew Bersi](../../images/Matthew-Bersi.jpg)
![Michael Brent](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Brent_Michael.jpg?w=120&h=120&auto=format&q=65&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-y=0.45)
![Baron Chanda](images/ChandaBaron.jpg)
![Barak Cohen](images/Cohen_Barak.jpg)
![Meaghan Creed](images/creed-meaghan.webp)
![David Curiel](images/curiel-david.jpg)
![Gautam Dantas](images/Dantas_Gautam.jpg)
![Daved Fremont](images/Fremont.jpg)
![Anthony French](images/French-Anthony.jpg)
![Michael Gach](images/shield.png)
![Guy Genin](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Genin_Guy.jpg?w=120&h=120&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
![Michael Greenberg](images/Greenberg_Michael.webp)
![Farshid Guilak](images/Guilak_Farshid.jpg)
![David Gutmann](images/Gutmann-David.jpg)
Brain tumors, neurons, human induced pluripotent stem cells, genetically engineered mice, tumor modeling, organoids
![Edward Han](images/han-edward.jpg)
![James Huettner](images/Huettner_James.jpg)
![Jing Hughes](images/hughes.jpg)
![Meredith Jackrel](images/jackrel-meredith.jpeg)
![Albert Kim](images/Kim-Albert.jpg)
![Jin-Moo Lee](images/Lee_Jin-Moo.jpg)
![Fangqiong Ling](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Fangqiong-Ling.jpg?w=110&h=110&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
![Christopher Lingle](images/Lingle_Christopher.jpg)
![Christopher Maher](images/Maher_Christopher.jpg)
![Audrey McAlinden](images/McAlinden_Audrey.jpg)
![Gretchen Meyer](images/Meyer_Gretchen.jpg)
![Jeffrey Milbrandt](images/Milbrandt_Jeffrey.jpg)
![Jeffrey Millman](images/Millman_Jeffrey.jpg)
![Robi Mitra](images/Mitra_Robi.jpg)
![Colin Nichols](images/Nichols_Colin.jpg)
![Camillo Padoa-Schioppa](images/Padoa-Schioppa_Camillo.jpg)
![Hua Pan](images/pan-hua.jpg)
![Amit Pathak](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Pathak_Amit.jpg?w=120&h=120&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)
![Philip Payne](images/Philip-Payne.jpg)
![Zachary Pincus](images/Pincus_Zachary.jpg)
![David Piston](images/Piston_David.jpg)
![Maria Remedi](images/remedi-maria.jpg)
![Patricia Ribeiro Pereira](images/RibeiroPereira_P.jpg)
![Janice Robertson](images/robertson-janice.jpg)
![Erica Scheller](images/Scheller_E_HC.jpg)
![Vijay Sharma](images/Sharma_Vijay.jpg)
![Monica Shokeen](images/Shokeen_Monica.jpg)
![Lilianna Solnica-Krezel](images/krezel-liianna.jpg)
![Alexander Stegh](images/Alexander-Stegh.jpg)
![S. Joshua Swamidass](images/Swamidass_S-Joshua.jpg)
![Tony Tsai](images/TonyTsai.jpg)
Mechanochemical control mechanisms underlying robustness of embryo development
![Pamela Woodard](images/Woodard_Pamela.jpg)
![Hani Zaher](images/Zaher_Hani.jpg)
![Mohamed Zayed](images/zayed-mohamed.jpg)
![Fuzhong Zhang](https://mckelveyengineeringfaculty.imgix.net/Zhang_Fuzhong.jpg?w=120&h=120&auto=format&q=65&fit=facearea&facepad=3)