Assistant Teaching Professor

Daniel Grindle

Daniel Grindle, PhD, will be teaching numerous courses for the Department of Bioengineering including Biomechanics, Capstone Design, and Bioengineering Measurement. Prior to joining Northeastern, he completed his PhD in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. His research involved developing and validating finite element models of the human body to study standing and seated pedestrian safety in vehicle impacts. Prior to his PhD, he worked at Beth Israel as a research assistant where he studied the biomechanics of various spinal diseases using motion capture techniques. 

Associate Teaching Professor

David Simpson

David Simpson, PhD, earned his PhD from the joint Biomedical Engineering program at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Prior to joining NU, was an Assistant Professor in the Biological Engineering program at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT). While at WIT, he also served as the Chair of the Faculty Senate and as the Provost Initiatives Coordinator for Inclusive Excellence. In both positions, he worked to enhance teaching and learning via the integration of equitable practices. Additionally, he served as the Associate Director for the Veterinary Institute for Regenerative Cures, Director of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Davis. While at UC Davis, he helped to build the stem cell program at the School of Veterinary Medicine and taught classes in regenerative medicine. His current research interests include the influence of stem cells on modulations of calcium signaling in “injured” fibroblasts, regenerative medicine therapeutics for human clinical trials design.

Associate Professor

Benjamin Gyori

Ben Gyori, PhD, completed his PhD in Computational Systems Biology at National University of Singapore. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was the Director of Machine-assisted Modeling and Analysis Platform as well as a Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School. He developed INDRA, a software tool that assembles biochemical mechanisms extracted from the scientific literature into explanatory models. His research interests include the intersection of systems biology, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to understand how biological cells work and react to drugs and environmental signals.

Assistant Professor

Christa Haase

Christa Haase, PhD, obtained her MSc in Chemistry at ETH Zurich and Stanford University and her PhD in Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Northeastern, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and instructor in the Advanced Microcopy Group at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. Christa has a background in physics, biology and chemistry. Her research interests include intravital and multiphoton microscopy, RNA sequencing, single-cell transcriptomics, aging, and leukemia. 

Assistant Professor Stephanie Noble

Stephanie Noble, PhD, obtained her PhD in Neuroscience at Yale University. She is currently a postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine. She was the Chief Scientific Officer of goBlue Labs, which developed a real-time EEG neurofeedback software, and is a consultant for Elite Warrior Identification. Her research interests include neuroimaging, statistics, and machine learning. 

Assistant Professor

Amir Vahabikashi

Amir Vahabikashi, PhD, obtained his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at Northwestern University. He is the co-founder of an award-winning medical device startup called VertigoMetric Diagnostics that enables emergency room (ER) physicians to rapidly differentiate between the brainstem stroke and non-life threatening acute neurological balance disorder based in Illinois. His research interests include multimodal bioelectronics and mechanobiology, tissue scale studies, regenerative engineering, and human development.

Assistant Professor

Lei Wang

Lei Wang, PhD, obtained her PhD in Bioengineering at Colorado State University and currently works as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Synthetic Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at Colorado State University she developed a cancer-on-a-chip model to explore interactions between anti-cancer drugs and cancer cells under physiologically relevant hypoxia microenvironments. Her other research interests include synthetic biology, human induced pluripotent stem cells, microfluids, and biosensors. 

Professor Ning Wang

Director of the

Mechanobiology Institute

Ning Wang, ScD, completed his MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science & Technology and his ScD in Physiology at Harvard University. Prior to joining Northeastern, Wang was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has authored over 150 publications with almost 20,000 citations. His research interests include cellular and molecular mechanomedicine, cancer cell biology, stem cell biology, mechanotransduction, bio-imaging, and cytoskeletal biomechanics. 

Professor Meni Wanunu

(Newly Appointed)

Meni Wanunu, previously an affiliated faculty member based in the Department of Physics, is now jointly appointed in the Department of Bioengineering. He completed his MSc in Chemistry and PhD in Chemistry/Material Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is an oversight committee member for the Boston Electron Microscopy Center, the co-director for Kostas Advanced Nano-Characterization Facility (Northeastern University, Burlington Campus) and on the Advisory Board for the Center for Nanoscale Systems (Harvard University). His research interests include biomolecules, nanopores, DNA and RNA sequencing, electron microscopy and electron-beam shaping of nanomaterials. 

Professor Jing-Ke Weng

Jing-Ke Weng, PhD completed his PhD in Biochemistry from Perdue University before joining the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Prior to joining Northesatern, Weng was an Associate Professor of Biology at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded DoubleRainbow Biosciences, a sustainable biotechnology company focused on discovering new medical advancements using plant chemistry. His research interests include natural product biochemistry, plant abiotic and biotic interactions, carbon sequestration, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery.