#  Mooney Laboratory 

 



##  Mesoporous silica rods 

Credit: Aileen Li, James Weaver



 

 

 

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**Welcome to the Mooney Lab for Cell and Tissue Engineering!**  
  
We focus on making cellular and macromolecular therapies more effective and practical. Our [research](/research) involves exploiting our understanding of molecular and cellular biology to design biomaterials that manipulate and potentiate specific cell functions. The lab [members](/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](/publications) page, and for any inquiries, please visit our [contact](/contact-0) page.



 

##  Latest News 

 



  [### Implantable living materials autonomously deliver therapeutics using contained engineered bacteria

 ](/news/2026/05/implantable-living-materials-autonomously-deliver-therapeutics-using-contained) May 14, 2026 

 Congratulations to Tetsu and team for their new publication in Science on engineering bacteria for sustained drug delivery. 

 

 

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   [### Favour Obuseh defends his PhD thesis

 ](/news/2026/05/favour-obuseh-defends-his-phd-thesis) May 11, 2026 

 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... 

 

 

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   [### Nikko Jeffreys defends his thesis 

 ](/news/nikko-jeffreys-defends-his-thesis) September 30, 2024 

 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 :) 

 

 

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