John Wirthlin Hickey
Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Themes
Biomaterials, Biomedical & Health Data Sciences, Biomedical Imaging & Biophotonics, Computational Modeling of Biological Systems, Immune Engineering, Synthetic & Systems Biology, Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
Research Interests
Using and developing systems biology tools and technologies to describe and control spatial relationships between cells in tissues, particularly in cell therapies.
Bio
The Hickey Lab sits at the interface of engineering and immunology, using and developing systems immunology tools to investigate tissue structure in situ. We also use multiplexed imaging and computational techniques to characterize spatial cellular responses related to the effectiveness of anti-cancer cell or biomaterial therapies. John has received a number of awards for his work, including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, ARCS Scholar, Siebel Scholar, NCI Postdoctoral Fellowship, and American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Education
- Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 2019
Positions
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
- Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. American Cancer Society. 2020
Courses Taught
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
- BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
- BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)