Amir Vahabikashi, PhD.
Amir Vahabikashi joined the Bioengineering Department at Northeastern University in July 2023. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Iran and Villanova University, respectively. His doctoral studies at Northwestern University’s Biomedical Engineering Department, under Prof. Mark Johnson, focused on the mechanobiology of outflow tissue in primary open-angle glaucoma.
He then moved to the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, studying the roles of the cytoskeleton and nucleoskeleton in cellular and nuclear mechanobiology in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Goldman. He concluded his training by joining Dr. John Rogers's group at Northwestern's Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics as a visiting scholar, where he focused on developing compliant two- and three-dimensional multimodal bioelectronic interfaces for organoid- and tissue-scale mechanobiology studies and implantable technologies for regenerative engineering.
He is a recipient of the Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Eye Institute, the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute, and the Innovation Corps Award from the National Science Foundation. His goal is to use the combination of soft bioelectronics and multi scale mechanobiology to understand the mechanisms of human development and disease and develop new therapeutic and regenerative approaches for various illnesses.