Research

We design the environments in which cells live, so we can better understand how life works. By combining engineering, materials science, and biology, we build advanced three-dimensional systems that allow us to precisely control and perturb the conditions cells experience.

These engineered microenvironments let us ask new kinds of biological questions: how cells sense their surroundings, how tissues form, and how disease emerges. By systematically tuning the physical and chemical cues around cells, we uncover principles that are difficult to observe in conventional models.

Our vision is to create the next generation of experimental platforms that make biology more measurable, more predictive, and more human-relevant—transforming how we study development, disease, and regeneration. Find out more about our research themes below.