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Principal Investigator

David Kaplan

Kaplan Lab
Tufts University
4 Colby Street, Room 251
Medford, MA 02155

Office: 617-627-3251

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Research Staff

Michael Lovett, PhD
Deputy Director, INSciDE@Tufts (Initiative for Neural Science, Disease & Engineering)
Dr. Lovett is responsible for the day-to-day management of INSciDE center operations, including laboratory functions, grant funding opportunities, and university and industry outreach plans.
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Thomas Nieland, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Professor Nieland’s interest is to identify mechanisms, biomarkers and drugs for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders through a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates bioengineering, stem cell technology, functional genomics, systems biology etc.
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Ying Chen, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
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Chunmei Li, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
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Dana Cairns, PhD
Research Associate
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Xuan Mu, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Xuan Mu's research mainly focuses on exploiting protein polymers, biologically-inspired principles, and advanced engineering approaches, especially 3D printing and microfluidics, for constructing high-performance materials and developing disease models and diagnostic assays.
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Jugal Sahoo, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Sahoo is working on silk chemistry and surface modification for biomedical applications.
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Molly Cummings
Coordinating Editor
Miryam Adelfio
Research Technician
Kristin Harrington
Research Technician
Kathryn Jordan
Research Technician
Brooke Longo
Research Technician
Yuka Milton
Research Technician

Postdoctoral Researchers

Mattia Bonzanni, PhD
My research focuses on a multidisciplinary approach (experimental, computational, and theoretical) to study the electrophysiological behaviors of neuronal populations, with a focus on the application of graph theory approaches.
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Laura Chambre, PhD
I am developing silk-based drug delivery systems for the sustained and controlled release of therapeutics.
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Jaewon Choi, PhD
My research is on silk-based materials for biomedical applications.
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Joshua Erndt-Marino, PhD
My research focuses on applying experimental and computational techniques (i.e. machine learning and Bayesian modeling) to understand cell/tissue-communication.
Vincent Fitzpatrick, PhD
Tatjana Flora, PhD
Andrew Ford, PhD
Constancio Gonzalez Obeso, PhD
Dr. Constancio Gonzalez Obeso is focused on the development of SELPs for highly technological applications, such as different inks for 3D printing, long-term drug carriers, ultrafast gelling SELPs, new stimuli-responsive SELPs, etc.
Chengchen Guo, PhD
My research is about on developing protein-based functional biomaterials for regenerative medicine.
Nafis Hasan, PhD
Philip Houtz, PhD
Volha Liaudanskaya, PhD
Zaira Martin Moldes, PhD
Rachael Parker, PhD
Anne Valat, PhD
Ning Xiang, PhD
My research is development of bioreactor and bio-scaffold that can be used in cultured meat.
Chelsea Stowell, PhD
Chelsea is developing and characterizing tissue-engineered models of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Sophia Theodossiou, PhD
Junqi (Alicia) Wu, PhD

Graduate Students

Shounak Bose
Thomas Falcucci
Nicholas Fiore
Nick Fiore's research seeks to recapitulate features of Parkinson's Disease using 3D human tissue models for the study of novel disease mechanisms.
Kyle Fish
Onur Hasturk
Elisa Jazan
Terrence Roh
Natalie Rubio
Sara Rudolph
My research focuses on using silk-based tissue-engineered scaffolds along with human-derived organoids to create 3D in vitro models of the intestine which can be used for drug screening, disease models, microbiome studies, etc.
Andrew Stout
Sophia Szymkowiak
John Yuen Jr.