Research Interests
Focused on understanding, on a molecular level, how mechanical and chemical cues from the environment are detected, integrated, and manipulated by cells to dictate physiological and patho-physiological responses important in vascular biology.
Selected Grants
Force-sensitive Linker Proteins as Mediators of Cellular Mechanosensitivity
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2025 - 2029University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 1994 - 2027Regulatory Functions of the Differentiated Epidermis
ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2022 - 2027Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER)
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2022 - 2026Mechanosensitivity of Membrane-Actin Cortex Adhesion
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2021 - 2026The mechanical role of the glycocalyx in cancer cell adhesion
ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2024Mechanotransduction in Multicellular Systems
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023Kinesin Force Production and Biomechanics of Division
ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2023LUMICKS C-TRAP
EquipmentMajor User · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2022 - 2023Molecular Determinants of Confined Migration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University · 2019 - 2023Analysis of mechanical induction of bioelectric activity in cells
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2019 - 2022EFRI CEE : Engineering Technologies to Determine Causal Relationships Between Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2022CAREER: Force-activated Protein Dynamics in Mechanobiology
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2021Visualization of mechanical stress in live cells
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2019Visualizing and Elucidating the Role of Force on Type IV Collagen in Development
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018Elucidating the Role of Mechanosensitive Signaling in Mediating Cell-Biomaterial Interactions
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2018Visualizing and Elucidating Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2016 - 2018Microenvironments for Tendon Tissue Engineering
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2014 - 2017The Role of Ezrin in Membrane and Actin Interactions
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2017Structural Biology and Biophysics Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2015External Relationships
- Veterans Health Administration
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