Meet Assistant Professor Laurel Hind
Assistant Professor Laurel Hind comes to CU from the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under Anna Huttenlocher. She earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the growing global health concern of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Her group postulates that harnessing the body’s natural response to pathogen invasion by controlling innate immune cell function could be an effective way to combat infection. Her group works at the intersection of engineering and immunology to design models of the infectious microenvironment, which are then used to investigate how multicellular interactions, the physical environment, and soluble signals drive immune cell recruitment to an infection. This work is carried out with the goal of discovering new targets to control immune cell recruitment, resolution, and anti-microbial function.
Hind will join the department in January 2020.