Mooney Laboratory
Mesoporous silica rods
Credit: Aileen Li, James Weaver
Welcome to the Mooney Lab for Cell and Tissue Engineering!
We focus on making cellular and macromolecular therapies more effective and practical. Our research involves exploiting our understanding of molecular and cellular biology to design biomaterials that manipulate and potentiate specific cell functions. The lab members consists of postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, clinical fellows, and visiting scholars from diverse academic backgrounds.
For more information, please visit our publications page, and for any inquiries, please visit our contact page.
Latest News
Emily Roloson defends her PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Roloson on defending her doctoral thesis on Monday, August 17th, on Leveraging Muscle Mechanosensitivity to Improve Regeneration After Severe Injury. We are excited to see all that Emily is going to do in the future to improve the...
Nuria presents her work at the annual Wyss Retreat
Congrats to Nuria on her presentation "Regulatory T Cells in Tissue Regeneration" in the Healthy Aging panel at the 2026 Annual Wyss Retreat!
Implantable living materials autonomously deliver therapeutics using contained engineered bacteria
Congratulations to Tetsu and team for their new publication in Science on engineering bacteria for sustained drug delivery.
