Long before she took the helm of her engineering lab as an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Florida, Erika Moore was fascinated by the careful dance between immune cells and biomaterials engineered to interact with living systems. Now, her curiosity has led her to design biomaterials to help diverse lupus patients receive personalized care.
I had to start wearing contacts when I was 11 years old, and as I put something into my eye every day that was foreign to my body, it really piqued my interest in understanding biomaterials. While doing my undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, I started to realize that immune cells are probably going to be an important part of how our bodies respond to biomaterials.
My area of expertise is at the meeting point of immunology, biomaterials science, and translational medicine. I was classically trained as a biomedical ...
