Faculty Labs and Research

The overall focus of the research in the Bencherif LAMP Biomaterials Laboratory is the fundamental understanding and development of polymeric materials for biomedical applications with a specific emphasis on tissue engineering, drug delivery, and cancer immunotherapy.

The ADDRES Lab studies interactions between materials and biological systems, with a current focus on the intestinal environment, via development of theoretical and tissue-engineered cell culture models.

The primary focus of this research is the development of detection strategies that are tailored for the micro and nanoscale, with emphasis on biological systems.

This research focuses on the intersectionality between biomaterials, electronics, nerves, and the heart.

The Lee-Parsons Laboratory applies metabolic engineering principles and methodologies to improve the production of important compounds (i.e., critical plant-derived pharmaceuticals or biofuels from plant cell and tissue cultures and microalgae cultures.

The Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern Marine Science Center seeks to understand how climate has shaped marine biodiversity and how a now rapidly changing climate will affect biodiversity in the future.

The  research effort in the Laboratory of Biomaterials and Advanced Nano-Delivery Systems (BANDS) is focused on the development of biocompatible materials from natural and synthetic polymers, target-specific drug and gene delivery systems for cancer, CNS, inflammatory, and infectious diseases, and nanotechnology applications in medical diagnosis, imaging, and therapy.

The Epstein Lab works on microbial discovery in the environment and human microbiome. They uncover novel microbial life forms by inventing novel cultivation strategies that depart from conventional wisdom and provide access to the greatest part of microbial diversity: unexplored species missed in the past.

The Lewis Lab studies persister cells responsible for tolerance to antibiotics, uncultured bacteria of the environment and the microbiome, and works on drug discovery.

The O’Doherty Group research interests broadly encompass the discipline of organic synthesis toward designing, synthesizing and testing new anticancer, antibacterial and antiviral agents. 

The research program in the Laboratory for Neglected Disease Drug Discovery focuses on those areas of research that will impact on treatment of human disease and on areas that will expedite the drug discovery process.

The Beuning Laboratory at Northeastern is focused on understanding the structure-function-dynamics relationships of proteins and enzymes, with a particular focus on proteins involved in DNA metabolism and DNA damage tolerance.