Country of Residence
Discipline(s)
Institution
University of Central Florida
Materials Science and Engineering
6900 Lake Nona Blvd, Ste 438
Orlando, FL 32827
Research Interests
Needa Brown’s research program at UCF aims to study nanomaterial-biological interactions in a systematic approach with the goal to create a pipeline for nanoengineered biomedical solutions that will expand therapeutic options to previously unattainable patient populations. Her lab focuses on three key areas: 1) Design of nanomaterials to circumvent drug delivery barriers, 2) Leveraging inherent material-biological interactions for nanomaterial design, and 3) Designing tools to assess nanomaterial response in biologically relevant systems.
Biography
Needa Brown is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She completed her PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 2017 and her post-doctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In September 2021, she moved to Northeastern University as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics, where she was the Founder and Director of the Master’s in Nanomedicine program and served as Assistant Director of the NCI-funded CaNCURE program. Her research is centered around understanding and leveraging material-biological interactions to design next-generation nanomaterials to tackle cancer and infectious diseases.