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Brendan Leung is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University. His research program focuses on the development of advanced tissue construct platforms and assay technologies to understand the fundamental phenomena governing tissue homeostasis and responses to human diseases. He is particularly interested in creating in vitro tools to explore the role of human-associated microbes in chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, fibrosis, and cancer. Leung leads a multidisciplinary research group aimed at developing tissue-based culture platforms to investigate cell organization and remodeling in response to microbial pathogens during the early stages of diseases. Current projects include creating microtissue acini-based culture platforms, which provide physiologically relevant models to study epithelial cell function and its implications in diseases, and bioprinting human-microbe culture models to directly study interactions between human cells and microbes in a controlled environment. Leung's work incorporates innovative approaches to recapitulate tissue-level phenomena and collect meaningful measurements, further advancing our understanding of complex biological interactions.