Research interviews

Conversations with engineers building medicine’s next tools.

A professional interview series focused on the people, labs, and ideas shaping biomedical engineering research.

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Regulatory Genomics

Microfluidics

Genome Architecture

Biorobotics

AI & Drug Discovery

Dr. César de la Fuente

How machine learning, extinct genomes, and microbial dark matter let one lab search for antibiotics evolution already built, tracking how the same molecular strategy shows up in places nobody thought to look, and pointing toward a future where new medicines are designed rather than discovered at all.

Stem Cell Engineering

Dr. Joyce Chen

University of Chicago

How engineered stem cells and cellular sensors reveal how and when cancer begins.

Regulatory Genomics

Dr. Michael Beer

Johns Hopkins University

How machine learning and CRISPR screens decode the genome's regulatory code and disease origins.

Microfluidics

Dr. Abraham Lee

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

How microfluidics and single-cell manipulation enable biological readouts and cell-based therapies.

Microbiology and Immunology

Dr. Nicholas M. Adams

University of Rochester Medicine

On how genome architecture and chromatin organization shape the cells that protect us.

Biorobotics

Dr. David J. Reinkensmeyer

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Exploring how rehabilitation robotics is retraining the brain to restore movement after injury.