Pinar Zorlutuna
Sheehan Family Associate Professor of Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Interest
Dr. Zorlutuna’s research explores designing biomimetic environments for understanding and controlling cell behavior, and cell-cell and cell-environment interactions using tissue engineering, genetic engineering and micro- and nanotechnology, with particular emphasis on designing systems for co-culturing different cell types in a physiologically relevant manner for engineering complex tissues and for directing stem cell differentiation.
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Education
Postdoctoral Fellow – Harvard Medical School, 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
PhD – Middle East Technical University, 2009