Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Hani A. Awad, Ph.D.
MC 1-8543
Phone: (585) 273-5268
Email Hani

Research Interest: Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
ORCID CV

Research Staff

Emma (Gira) Knapp
Engineer and Manager

Andrew Pierle
Laboratory Technician

Graduate Students

Raquel Ajalik
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Ihab Al-Atawneh
BME - Biomedical Engineering M.S. Program

Rahul Alenchery
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Maria Lynch
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Melissa (Misa) MacLiesh, B.S.
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Research Interest:

1. Intravital pH sensing of the cancer microenvironment
2. The stem cell niche of myelodysplastic syndrome

Christine Massie
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Elysia Masters
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Ming Yan
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Victor Zhang, B.S.
MSTP - Medical Scientist Training Program (M.D., Ph.D.)
MD - Medical Education (M.D.)
BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program

Research Interest:

"Tendon-on-a-chip" technologies for studying tendon fibrosis and scarring after injury

Research Assistants

Yicong (Mario) Chen
Undergraduate Student

Sylvia Zhong
Undergraduate Student