Young Innovators are recognized for their work in some of the most important and impactful bioengineering studies directed by junior faculty in the field.
Jeanne Stachowiak, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a Young Innovator by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, an official journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society published by Springer.
Young Innovators are recognized for their work in some of the most important and impactful bioengineering studies directed by junior faculty in the field.
Professor Stachowiak is interested in the biophysical mechanisms that underlie the function of lipid membranes in cells, as well as the opportunity to create bio-inspired materials and systems that borrow these mechanisms. Her laboratory develops new lipid membrane substrates and lipid-encapsulated systems and examines them using advanced microfluidic and fluorescence microscopy tools. By reconstructing membranes from component parts, her work seeks to capture the minimal requirements of specific membrane functions.
As part of the Young Innovators designation, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering featured a new paper from Stachowiak. In the area of nanotechnology and drug delivery, she and her team worked on enhancing membrane fusion to increase transfer of liposome contents to the cell cytoplasm. They demonstrated an increase of macromolecular delivery to the cytoplasm, setting the stage for improved biomolecule delivery.
Stachowiak, along with the other Young Innovator recipients, will present her research in a special session at the 2017 Annual Meeting of BMES in Phoenix, Arizona.
