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Prof. Roger D Kamm

Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering
Director, Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Center (EBICS)
Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical
School (HMS)/Brigham & Womens Hospital (BWH)
Associate Director for Programs, Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE)

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: NE47-321
(617) 253-5330

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Angiogenesis
Vasculogenesis
Biological Machines and Microfluidics
Respiratory Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
Cell and Tissue Engineering
Physiological Modeling
Biomolecular Engineering
Metastatic Cancer
Cancer Drug Screening
Vascular Network Engineering

Research Summary

Research in MechanoBiology Laboratory includes:

(1) An overriding objective of the Mechanobiology Lab is to elucidate the fundamental nature of how cells sense and respond to mechanical stimuli, and to employ the principles revealed by these studies to seek new treatments for vascular disease and to develop tissue constructs for drug and toxicity screening.

(2) Both experimental and computational approaches are employed in a manner that encourages the constant interplay between the two for purposes of model validation, direct measurement of critical parameters, and identifying new hypotheses to be tested through experiment.

Recent Work

  • Video

    11.2.20-Kamm

    November 2, 2020Conference Video Duration: 20:14
    Roger D. Kamm
    Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering

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