Mission
Our mission is to study the effect of the mechanical environment on biological systems from the cell to whole plants and animals.
Genin elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) (Links to an external site)
The society strengthens the interface between engineering, science and math
Virtual drug quiets noise in images of heart tissue (Links to an external site)
Research in labs of mechanobiology faculty members Nate Huebsch, Guy Genin creates software to enable experiments for learning how electrical and mechanical heart functions relate
Environmental memory propels collective cell migration (Links to an external site)
Researchers in Amit Pathak’s lab found that cells learn from past environments to promote future invasions
Cancer cells penetrate deep into their environment (Links to an external site)
Amit Pathak’s lab finds cancer cells have remarkable ability while healthy cells do not