Adam Hall's Biography

Adam Hall, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Adam R. Hall received his training in physics and materials sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a NASA Graduate Student Research Program (GSRP) Fellow and received the Ross & Charlotte Johnson Family Dissertation Fellowship. He then spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universitat Delft in the Netherlands. From 2010-13, he was an Assistant Professor of Nanoscience at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro, NC, where he earned awards for both his research activities and teaching. He joined the faculty of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences in August of 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2021 and was appointed Assistant Director of Translational Research for the Atrium Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2023. Dr. Hall has published more than 50 journal articles, is an inventor on 5 patents, and his research has been supported by diverse agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NCI, NIGMS, NIBIB, and NHGRI), DoD, BARDA, 3M, and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. His research focuses on translational applications of micro- and nanotechnologies.