Michael Mak

Michael Mak received his undergraduate degree in Engineering-Physics from Brown University, followed by his Ph.D. at Cornell University in Biomedical Engineering and postdoctoral studies at MIT and Boston University.  He is currently an Empire Innovation Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University.  The focus of the Mak Research Lab is centered on 3 inter-related directions: 1) uncovering principles of cell mechanosensing of complex microenvironmental signals, 2) extracellular matrix engineering, and 3) building ultra-realistic functional tissues and organs through advanced bioprinting and biofabrication.