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Assistant Professor email
Shelby 831

Research and Teaching Interests: Glycans, brain disorders, central nervous system, biomaterials

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • B.Tech., College of Engineering and Technology, India
  • M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
  • Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Galway, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
  • Post-Doc, Duke University

Dr. Juhi Samal will join the faculty in January 2024 from Duke University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Segura Lab. Her research focusses on the development of biomaterial-based interventions for central nervous system (CNS) disorders with a special focus on tissue glycosylation in the CNS. Her research interests are exploring the modulation of tissue glycosylation in acute and chronic CNS disorders and developing biomaterial therapies to tune the glycan signature towards a pro-regenerative response. Her long-term research goals are to utilize these biomaterial-engineering strategies to target immune cell glycosylation for advanced therapeutics by implementing emergent concepts to regulate the cellular glycosylation.