Associate Professor, Integra Lifesciences Term Professor and Graduate Coordinator
J.Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Nanomaterials
- Self-Assembly
- Co-Assembly
- Immunotherapies
Education
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (2004)
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (2006)
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin (2010)
- NIH NRSA Post-doctoral Fellow, Surgery, University of Chicago (2013)
Honors and Awards
- Integra LifeSciences Term Professor, University of Florida | 2023-2025
- UF BME Faculty Research Excellence Award, University of Florida | 2019
- Preeminence Term Professor, University of Florida | 2018-2021
- Early Career Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2018
- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, University of Florida | 2017-2020
- Trailblazer R21 Award, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) | 2017
- Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowship, University of Florida J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering | 2016
- Young Innovator, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) | 2016
- Emerging Investigator, Journal of Materials Chemistry B | 2016
- Hot Paper, Journal of Materials Chemistry B | 2016
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award | 2015
- Outstanding Contribution, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Journal |2015
- National Science Foundation Travel Award, Regenerative Medicine Workshop at Hilton Head | 2015
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, University of Florida Department of Biomedical Engineering | 2015
- Outstanding Research Contribution, Biomedical Engineering Society National Meeting, San Antonio, TX | 2014
- Charles B. Huggins Postdoctoral Research Award, University of Chicago Department of Surgery | 2013
- Alliance of Nanotechnology in Cancer Annual Meeting Poster Award, National Cancer Institute, MD Anderson, Houston, TX | 2012
- NIH Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (F32), NIAID 1F32AI096769-01 | 2011-2013
- Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Department of Biomedical Engineering | 2008
- Inductee, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Illinois Beta Chapter | 2003

