About or our speaker:
Dr. Paul Janmey is a Professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a world-renowned expert in studying the physics of polymers and applications to answer biological questions.
He received an A.B. degree from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin. A post-doctoral fellowship in the Hematology Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital motivated application of methods of polymer physics to the cytoskeleton. Since then, his lab has studied the viscoelastic properties of biopolymer networks and the regulation of cytoskeletal and extracellular matrix assembly. His current work is focused on the response of cells to the viscoelastic properties of their environment and on developing new soft biocompatible materials for tissue engineering and wound healing.
