2021 Bioengineering Outstanding Recent Faculty Hires

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES Lee Makowski, Professor and Chair of Northeastern’s Bioengineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.

Aileen Huang-Saad

Associate Professor and Director of Life Science and Engineering Programs, The Roux Institute PhD: John Hopkins School of Medicine, 1996 Associate Professor: Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, and Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan, 2021 Joined Northeastern: February 2021 Scholarship Focus: Entrepreneurship education microenvironments and their impact on the engagement of diverse populations, the influence of I-Corps on university ecosystems, and transforming BME education through instructional design Awards and Recent Projects: • Fulbright Award, 2020 • “Design and Development: Fostering Graduate Student Professional Development Through an Instructional Incubator and Teaching Apprenticeship Model,” NSF (PI), 2018

Elizabeth Libby

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Pennsylvania, 2011 Departmental Fellow: Harvard Medical School, 2016-2020 Joined Northeastern: January 2021 Scholarship Focus: Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development Awards and Recent Projects: • “Rapid Tests For Signatures of Genetic Engineering In Biological Samples,” iARPA, 2018

Francisco Loth

Professor PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993 Professor and F.T. Harrington Chair: Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Departments at the University of Akron and the Executive Director of the Conquer Chiari Research Center Joining Northeastern: January 2022 Scholarship Focus: Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging Awards and Recent Projects: • “Examination of the Importance of the Clivus Bone in Chiari I Malformation,” Conquer Chiari (PI), 2020 • “Novel MR Image Processing as an Objective Diagnostic Test for Chiari Malformation,” NIH (PI), 2019

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING

Mingyang Lu

Assistant Professor PhD: Baylor University, 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Rice University, 2012-2016 Assistant Professor: Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Mammalian Genetics, 2016-2020 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression Awards and Recent Projects: • “Collaborative Research: Genome editing Approaches to Unravel microRNA Roles in Stochastic Multistable Networks,” (NSF) PI, 2021 • “New Computational Systems Biology Methods for Modeling Gene Regulatory Circuits,” NIH (PI), 2018 • Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Computational Cancer Biology Training Grant, 2014-2016

Mohammad Abbas Yaseen

Assistant Professor PhD: Rice University, 2008 Assistant Professor: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 2015-19 Postdoctoral Associate: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 2008-14 Joined Northeastern: January 2020 Scholarship Focus: Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function Awards and Recent Projects: • “Relating Neuroimmune and Neurovascular Alterations During Alzheimer’s Disease Progression,” NIH (PI), 2018

Raimond Winslow

Professor and Director of Life Science and Medicine Research, The Roux Institute PhD: John Hopkins School of Medicine, 1985 Founding Director: The Institute for Computational Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Joined Northeastern: May 2021 Scholarship Focus: Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care Awards and Recent Projects: • “Calcium Signaling at a Cisternal Synapse,” (NIH) PI, 2021 • “Data-Driven Models to Optimize Ventilator Therapy in ICE COVID Patients,” NSF (Co-PI), 2020

INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

The department has 26 tenured/tenure-track faculty members and an additional 47 tenured/tenure-track affiliated faculty contribute to the department. During 2019 to 2021, the department recieved $20M in external research awards. Our downtown Boston campus facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, research labs, and industry. Our faculty’s efforts in scholarship and research seek to provide solutions to compelling health and sustainability challenges.

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