Julia Babensee
PhD
Dr. Babensee's research interests include host responses to combination products, biomaterial interactions with dendritic cells, tissue engineering for rheumatoid arthritis, targeted DNA vaccine delivery, and biomaterial-applied immunology.
Titles and Roles
- Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
- Research Program
- Cell and Molecular Biology
Biography
Julia Babensee, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Dr. Babensee is affiliated with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissue.
Dr. Babensee is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute. She is also a permanent member of the NIH Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences study section. She is actively involved in several professional societies with service including SFB Member-at-Large (2008-2009) and Program Chair for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
Education
Dr. Babensee received her PhD from University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine.
Research
Dr. Babensee's research program is in the area of engineering of inflammatory and immune responses focused on understanding host responses to combination products. Her research interests also include:
- Biomaterial interactions with dendritic cells
- Tissue engineering for rheumatoid arthritis
- Biomaterial-applied immunology
Publications
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