PI: Dr. M.K. Sewell-Loftin
Dr. Sewell-Loftin joined UAB in January 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and as an Associate Scientist in the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her lab focuses on understanding how mechanical forces drive tumor growth and angiogenesis, using unique 3D microtissue models.
- Washington University in St. Louis, Post-doctoral Training
- Vanderbilt University, Ph.D.
- University of Alabama, B.S.
Current Lab Members
Graduate Students
Bronte Miller
Project: Mechanical activation of VEGFR-2 during angiogenesis
Maranda Tidwell
Project: CD44 mechanosignaling in ovarian cancer progression
Adam Kotar
Project: Biomechanical regulation of triple negative breast cancer migration
Vaishali Bala
Project: Perivascular matrix biomechanical signaling
Undergraduate Students
- Peyton Clark
- Allyson Criswell
- Gio Esposito
- Michael Heim
- Kamari Marzette
- Faith Muriuki
- Cade Pair (not pictured)
- Victoria Purdy
(shown left to right)
Interns
- Bryan Mortimer (MD, Anticipated 2025)
Lab Alumni
- Molly Buckley, PhD (2022)
- Alfred Optina
- Emma Laurence
- McKenzie Johnson
- Gillian Huskin (UG, Now Researcher in the Jun Lab at UAB)
- David Hall
- Krista Jackson (UG, Now a Predoctoral student at GaTech)
- Michelle Kehres (UG)
