Our lab engineers solutions to address current challenges in medicine. We design, synthesize, and evaluate new biomaterials that change the way we deliver drugs and cells. These materials exhibit cooperative or heterogeneous features, exemplified in nature.

A central theme in our lab is understanding how local organization affects global properties. Our biologically-inspired materials illustrate this concept via assembly at two length scales:

• Molecular (<1 μm) for Targeted Therapeutics, and
• Cellular (>1 μm) for Tissue Architecture.

Our research exploits current knowledge of cancer and vascular biology to engineer new drug delivery and tissue engineering platforms.