Nathaniel Huebsch's Biography

Nathaniel Huebsch, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University Saint Louis

Nate Huebsch completed his BS in Bioengineering in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his PhD training through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease where he held fellowships from the NIH (NRSA) and the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. He served as the lead scientist on the Microphysiological Systems team in the laboratory of Kevin Healy at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis in 2018. His research focus is on understanding how mechanical loading and passive matrix mechanical properties contribute to pathogenesis of inherited cardiomyopathies and stem cell differentiation.