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
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.
Favour Obuseh defends his PhD thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Obuseh on defending his doctoral thesis on Monday, May 4th, on Enhancing Gamma Delta (γδ) T-Cell Therapies Through Engineered Biochemical and Mechanical Microenvironments. Favour is going on to attend Yale School of Medicine to...
Nikko Jeffreys defends his thesis
Congratulations to Dr.Jeffreys on sucessfully defending his amazing thesis on applying mechanotransduction in human T-cell development to enhance immunotherapy. We are very proud of you :)
