Ankur Singh

Prof. Singh is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the Sibley School of Mechanical & Aero. Engineering and Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering. He is a standing member of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine at Cornell Medicine (NYC) and has affiliations with Cornell’s Immunology and Infectious Disease Program. He joined Cornell University in 2013, after his postdoctoral training in cell mechanobiology, cell-matrix interactions, and stem cell engineering at Georgia Tech with Prof. Andres Garcia. Prior to that, he received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Krishnendu Roy (now also at Georgia Tech).

His “Immunotherapy and Cell Engineering” laboratory at Cornell is developing strategies to engineer adaptable, designer immune organoids and enabling technologies for mechanistic understanding of healthy and diseased immune cells. He has received funding from the National Institute of Health (NIAID, NCI), National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society, among others. He has published over 41 peer-reviewed journal articles, including those in Nature Methods, Nature Materials, PNAS, Blood, Nature Protocols, Biomaterials, J Controlled Release, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, and Cell Press' Molecular Therapy. He is a recipient of the numerous scientific and teaching awards listed below and his immune organoids research has been identified among Top 100 Discoveries of 2015 by the Discover Magazine. Prof. Singh is the Founder and twice elected Chair of the Immune Engineering Special Interest Groyp (SIG) at the Society for Biomaterials.