Faculty Research Areas

• Prabhani Atukorale: Immunoengineering; Immunotherapeutics; Novel nanomaterials; Tumor immunology; Tumor microenvironment; Synthetic tumor niches
• Stacyann Bailey: Bone extracellular matrix quality; Biomechanics; Osteoporosis; Bone metastasis; Cancer-treatment related skeletal effects; Population health; and Fracture risk
• Yu Chen: Optical imaging for neuroimaging, early cancer detection, transplant organ evaluation, and tissue engineering; optical coherence tomography (OCT); multi-photon microscopy (MPM); fluorescence molecular imaging (FMI); laminar optical tomography (LOT); and endoscopy
• Chase Cornelison: Soft biomaterials; Neural tissue engineering; Interstitial fluid flow; Tumor microenvironment
• Seth Donahue: Bioinspired Material Design; Bone Tissue Engineering; Comparative Biomechanics; Hibernation Physiology; Paleo-engineering and Biomechanics
• Cathal Kearney: Biomaterials; Drug Delivery; Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering; On-Demand Delivery of Therapeutics
• Siyuan Rao: Biotechnology and Neurobiological interfaces; neural modulation; neurophysics; nanomedicine; neuroelectronics; integrated neural probes

Currently available positions

• Dr. Prabhani Atukorale
• Dr. Stacyann Bailey
• Dr. Chase Cornelison
• Dr. Seth Donahue
• Dr. Siyuan Rao