Michelle Teplensky, PhD Assistant Professor (BME, MSE)
Education PhD Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge;Primary Appointment Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
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August 13, 2026
“This is a powerful idea, because if we can program the locations and gradients of these chemical cues, we can make immune cells move in precise, programmed ways." [ More ]
November 7, 2025
Michelle Teplensky was awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2026 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award. [ More ]
Areas of Interest Nanomedicine, immune engineering, biomaterials, nanomaterials, vaccines
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Research Areas Research in the Teplensky Lab focuses on engineering nanotechnology to control immunological cell connectivity, processing, and communication by design. In doing so, we elucidate fundamentals about cellular events and leverage this knowledge to develop improved therapeutics and vaccines that can impact the treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Our work is highly interdisciplinary, and bridges the fields of engineering, chemistry, nanotechnology, immunology, and biomaterials. By sitting at this interface, we are able to develop and incorporate synthetic nanoscale advances to control immunological activity and elucidate design rules that have widespread impacts on therapeutic development.
Honors and Awards 2024 Beckman Young Investigator Award
Additional Affiliations Division of Materials Science & Engineering
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