Jungwoo Lee's Biography

Jungwoo Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Jungwoo Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a principle investigator at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and post-doctoral training at the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospitals in Children at Boston. He has published over 35 research papers in the field of biomaterials and tissue engineering (H-index=29, > 3,500 citations). With core expertise in biomaterials, micro-fabrication, cellular engineering, and biomedical imaging, his lab aims to develop tissue-engineered hematopoietic bone marrow models. These models are applied for better understanding the bone marrow tissue microenvironments and associated stem cell and cancer biology. His research has been supported by National Cancer Institute.