Edikan Ogunnaike, PhD

Biography

Edikan Ogunnaike, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Education

Dr. Ogunnaike earned her PhD in engineering science from the University of South Florida. She holds a master’s degree in analytical science from Florida A&M University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Titles & Roles

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

  Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Research

The Ogunnaike Lab advances convergent translational research on solid tumors and maternal diseases by harnessing immune and molecular engineering to improve the efficacy of small-molecule and immunotherapeutic agents. More broadly, the lab uses biomaterial and nanotechnology approaches to develop immune-therapeutic interventions at the intersection of physical science, biomaterials and oncology.

The lab’s focus areas include translating clinically focused therapies to:

• Understand immune-material interactions to synthesize materials for novel immunotherapy delivery systems
• Develop methods to isolate and probe normal-abnormal-host tissue interactions in healthy and diseased states
• Deliver therapeutic payloads targeted to the physiological immune microenvironment for disease modulation

Publications