Health Equity Engineering
Focus areas
- Addressing gynecological cancers and diseases
- Investigating sex-specific differences in osteoarthritis pathogenesis
- Creating healthcare solutions that are accessible to the socioeconomically disadvantaged
Participating Faculty
Kaitlin Fogg
Associate Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
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
Elain Fu
Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
Biosensing and microfluidics for field-use applications
Morgan Giers
Assistant Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
Predicting treatment outcomes for intervertebral disc regenerative and surgical therapies., Utilizing MRI, image processing, mathematical modeling, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and surgery to study transport phenomena in vivo.
Adam Higgins
Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
Technologies for long-term stabilization of cells, tissues and organs; microfluidic devices for chemical processing of blood.
Binata Joddar
Associate Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
Biomaterials, stem-cell-based tissue engineering, and tissue regeneration
Bo Sun
Associate Professor
Office Phone
Research Interests
Collective distributed sensing by multiple cells, mechanics of tumor and extracellular matrix, force generation and invasion of cancer cells.