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Jan Lammerding is a Professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University. He earned a Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. He completed his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focusing on subcellular biomechanics and mechanotransduction signaling. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Richard T. Lee’s laboratory at Brigham Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he began his faculty career at Harvard Medical School while concurrently teaching at MIT. In 2011, he joined Cornell University. The Lammerding laboratory develops novel technologies to investigate the interplay between cellular mechanics and function, with particular emphasis on how the cell nucleus responds to mechanical forces. Dr. Lammerding is recognized as a pioneer and leader in nuclear mechanobiology, and his research aims to elucidate the role of the nuclear envelope in determining mechanical behavior, alongside investigating diseases linked to defects in nuclear mechanobiology. The laboratory employs an interdisciplinary approach combining engineering principles, advanced imaging, and molecular biology techniques, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.
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