Lance Davidson
Lance Davidson is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Developmental
Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a BS in Physics from
the University of Illinois and a PhD in Biophysics at University of California
at Berkeley, and carried out postdoctoral research with Ray Keller and
Doug DeSimone at the University of Virginia. Both his PhD work and his
postdoctoral research have highlighted how quantitative interdisciplinary
research can bring new insights to understanding classical questions in
biology. His group studies how cell and tissue mechanics generate the unique
body plan of the embryo and how the biological rules and physical principles
of development can be adapted to engineer tissues. His group works closely
with mathematicians and engineers to integrate molecular genetic details
of morphogenesis with cellular and tissue mechanics with the aim of helping
design better artificial tissues and identifying the mechanical sources
of birth defects.
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