Dr. Kyle Quinn joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering

The School of Engineering is excited to welcome Dr. Kyle Quinn to the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Tufts University as incoming Professor (pending approval by the Tufts’ Board of Trustees) and Director of the Tufts Advanced Microscopic Imaging Center (TAMIC). Dr. Quinn will join the Tufts faculty on August 1st, 2025.

Dr. Quinn earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison and his PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Beth Winkelstein. He first joined Tufts as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Irene Georgakoudi's group, where he received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, F32, and an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99).

Since leaving Tufts, Dr. Quinn has had an incredibly successful career at the University of Arkansas. His research lab has been continuously funded by the NIH, and he received the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Dr. Quinn’s research specializes in non-invasive quantitative optical methods to study disease progression and tissue repair processes, with a focus on skin wound healing and aging applications. At the University of Arkansas, he taught Biomechanical Engineering and developed new courses on Advanced Biomedical Microscopy, and Biomedical Data and Image Analysis.  He is now looking forward to returning to Tufts and exploring new scientific collaborations in the areas of biophotonics and cell metabolism. 

In 2021, he founded the Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center, an NIH-designated Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, which solves complex problems in metabolic research by integrating optical imaging, bioenergetics, and data science approaches. Under his directorship over the last four years, the center and its supported members tripled NIH funding to the University as they brought together over 60 faculty from 8 departments. 

He will draw from those leadership experiences as he looks to grow TAMIC as an imaging resource and collaborative hub for researchers throughout the School of Engineering and Tufts as a whole.