Julia Babensee, PhD

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.

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.

Titles & Roles

• Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

  Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Professional Memberships

Dr. Babensee is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 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.

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; and biomaterial-applied immunology.

Publications