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The department has 25 tenured/tenure-track faculty members and an additional 46 tenured/tenure-track affiliated faculty contribute to the department. During 2018 to 2020, the department recieved $14M 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.
About Northeastern Bioengineering
coe.northeastern.edu
360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES
Lee Makowski, Professor and Chair of Northeastern’s Bioengineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.
Elizabeth Libby
Assistant Professor PhD: University of Pennsylvania, 2011 Departmental Fellow: Harvard Medical School, 2016-2020 Joining 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
Mona Minkara
Assistant Professor PhD: University of Florida, 2015 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Computational modeling of molecular interactions that occur at biological interfaces, pulmonary surfactant, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking for targeted drug design Awards and Recent Projects: • “Modeling and Computation for Discovery of Molecular Probes for SARS-CoV-2 Proteins,” NSF (Co-PI), 2020 • Ford Foundation Fellow, 2016 • Holman Prize Winner, 2019
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: • “New Computational Systems Biology Methods for Modeling Gene Regulatory Circuits”, NIH (PI), 2020 • Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Computational Cancer Biology Training Grant RP140113, 2014-2016
Jiahe Li
Assistant Professor PhD: Cornell University, 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2018 Joined Northeastern: January 2019 Scholarship Focus: Oral vaccine, host and oral microbiome interactions, microbiome engineering, and protein engineering-based cancer immunotherapy Awards and Recent Projects: • Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award, Department of Defense (PI), 2018 • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Northeastern University Joint Program in Cancer Drug Development Award (PI), 2019
Sara Rouhanifard
Assistant Professor PhD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Pennsylvania, 2015-18 Joined Northeastern: January 2019 Scholarship Focus: Developing chemical approaches to track, quantify and model the behaviors of RNA processing events and modifications in single cells. Understanding DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in RNA expression Awards and Recent Projects: • Ruth S. Kirschstein F32 National Research Service Award
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
NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY
Elizabeth Libby
Assistant Professor PhD: University of Pennsylvania, 2011 Departmental Fellow: Harvard Medical School, 2016-2020 Joining 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
Mona Minkara
Assistant Professor PhD: University of Florida, 2015 Joined Northeastern: August 2019 Scholarship Focus: Computational modeling of molecular interactions that occur at biological interfaces, pulmonary surfactant, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking for targeted drug design Awards and Recent Projects: • “Modeling and Computation for Discovery of Molecular Probes for SARS-CoV-2 Proteins,” NSF (Co-PI), 2020 • Ford Foundation Fellow, 2016 • Holman Prize Winner, 2019
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: • “New Computational Systems Biology Methods for Modeling Gene Regulatory Circuits”, NIH (PI), 2020 • Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Computational Cancer Biology Training Grant RP140113, 2014-2016
Jiahe Li
Assistant Professor PhD: Cornell University, 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2018 Joined Northeastern: January 2019 Scholarship Focus: Oral vaccine, host and oral microbiome interactions, microbiome engineering, and protein engineering-based cancer immunotherapy Awards and Recent Projects: • Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award, Department of Defense (PI), 2018 • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Northeastern University Joint Program in Cancer Drug Development Award (PI), 2019
Sara Rouhanifard
Assistant Professor PhD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Pennsylvania, 2015-18 Joined Northeastern: January 2019 Scholarship Focus: Developing chemical approaches to track, quantify and model the behaviors of RNA processing events and modifications in single cells. Understanding DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in RNA expression Awards and Recent Projects: • Ruth S. Kirschstein F32 National Research Service Award
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
NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY
Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Holliston, MA Permit No. 74
The department has 25 tenured/tenure-track faculty members and an additional 46 tenured/tenure-track affiliated faculty contribute to the department. During 2018 to 2020, the department recieved $14M 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.
About Northeastern Bioengineering
coe.northeastern.edu
360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115
OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES
Lee Makowski, Professor and Chair of Northeastern’s Bioengineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.