Developing smart materials for the study and application of cell mechanobiology
Our goal is to understand how biophysical stimuli (e.g., stresses and strains) regulate tissue development, maintenance, and disease progression and to use that understanding to develop biomimetic bench-top research platforms, biomedical devices, and tissue-engineering and regenerative medicine approaches.
Developing advanced computational tools to enable the study and application of cell mechanobiology
Our goal is to integrate innovative computational (for example, cell tracking) and experimental (for example, cell imaging) approaches to enable the study of cells in increasingly advanced and physiologically relevant in vitro environments.