Focus areas
- 3D cell culture systems
- Regenerative medicine
- Cryopreservation
- Cell mechanics
- Cancer
Faculty
Adam Higgins
Professor
Technologies for long-term stabilization of cells, tissues and organs; microfluidic devices for chemical processing of blood.
Bo Sun
Associate Professor
Collective distributed sensing by multiple cells, mechanics of tumor and extracellualr matrix, force generation and invasion of cancer cells.
Kaitlin Fogg
Assistant Professor
The Fogg Lab aims to develop and exploit high throughput in vitro 3D models of cancer in order to identify novel druggable targets, improve treatment selection of current therapeutics, and reprogram the immune system in the metastatic niche.
Morgan Giers
Assistant Professor
Predicting treatment outcomes for intervertebral disc (IVD) regenerative and surgical therapies. Utilizing MRI, image processing, mathematical modeling, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and surgery to study transport phenomena in vivo.