RAMILLE N. SHAH
Assistant Professor, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine, Northwestern University
Prof. Ramille N. Shah earned her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with a specialty in Biomaterials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her graduate research involved developing gene-supplemented collagen scaffolds for articular cartilage tissue engineering and regenerative medicine in the laboratory of Dr. Myron Spector at both the MIT and Harvard Medical School campuses. In 2006, she returned to Northwestern as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Stupp at the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (IBNAM) where she investigated the use of self-assembling peptide amphiphile (PA) systems for musculoskeletal regeneration, as well as developed novel self-assembling PA-biopolymer hybrid structures for a variety of biomedical applications. In 2008, she became a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and held a position as the assistant director for research at IBNAM. In September 2009 she started her tenure-track assistant professor position with a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern. Her research interests include musculoskeletal tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, peptide-polymer hybrid biomaterials, soy-based biomaterials, and mechanical and ultrasonic stimulation of cells in scaffolding systems.
