Current Members

Faculty

Joel Collier

Theodore Kennedy Professor of Biomedical Engineering

joel.collier@duke.edu

Research Interests: The design of biomaterials for a range of biomedical applications, with a focus on understanding and controlling adaptive immune responses.

Research Scientists

Research Interests: Studying the immunological mechanism of supramolecular platforms Designing self-assembling vaccine platforms for enhanced cancer immunotherapy Developing protein delivery systems to amplify immune cell functions

PhD Students

Pablo Cordero-Alvarado

BME Doctoral Student

p.cordero@duke.edu

Research Interests: Understand the design rules of biomaterials to elicit immune responses that can control and improve wound healing in animal models that mimic biological processes in humans.

Benjamin Cossette

BME Doctoral Candidate

benjamin.cossette@duke.edu

Research Interests: Engineering self-assembling peptide vaccines for the treatment of allergy and autoimmune diseases

Elizabeth Curvino

BME Doctoral Candidate

Elizabeth.Curvino@duke.edu

Research Interests: Designing nanofiber immunotherapies for inflammatory bowel disease Developing supramolecular platforms for oral delivery

Helena Freire Haddad

BME Doctoral Student

helena.freire.haddad@duke.edu

Research Interests: Engineering mucus-penetrating materials for mucosal vaccine delivery Active immunotherapies to mitigate inflammatory diseases

Rachel Katz

BME Doctoral Candidate

rachel.r.katz@duke.edu

Research Interests: Reductionist synthetic hydrogels for modeling the tumor microenvironment

Kat Lazar

BME Doctoral Student

kat.lazar@duke.edu

Research Interests: Peptide synthesis and glatiramoids

Deleah Pettie

BME Doctoral Student

deleah.pettie@duke.edu

Research Interests:

Emily Roe

BME Doctoral Candidate

emily.roe@duke.edu

Research Interests: Sublingual delivery of peptide nanofibers to prevent sexually transmitted infections Conjugation of proteins to self-assembling peptide nanofibers