Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Lauren D. Black III is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. His lab focuses on the development of new therapeutic strategies to treat cardiac injury and/ or malformation in both pediatric and adult patients. The target of many of these strategies is extracellular signaling in the cardiac microenvironment and particularly the role that changes to the properties of the extracellular matrix in health and disease play on cell fate and function. His lab also has a longstanding interest in the use of biophysical conditioning of engineered cardiac tissue through the use of multi-functional and highly programmable bioreactors. Prior to joining Tufts he completed his postdoctoral work under Dr. Robert Tranquillo and Dr. Doris Taylor at the University of Minnesota. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2006 in the lab of Dr. Bela Suki. His undergraduate degree is in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Black is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
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