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Engineering Materials • Quantifying Biology
Engineering Materials • Quantifying Biology
The Kenry Research Group develops quantitative approaches to understand and modulate interactions between materials, microenvironments, and biological systems. We combine nanomaterials engineering, microfluidics, advanced imaging, quantitative morphometry, spectroscopy, and machine learning to investigate how material properties and biological states shape physiological function.
Our research is guided by a simple premise: biological responses are complex, heterogeneous, and highly dependent on their physical and chemical environment. Instead of treating this complexity as noise, we develop tools to measure it, understand it, and leverage it for engineering.
Our program integrates three complementary thrusts: ENGINEER → MEASURE → PREDICT
Research Areas
Research Areas
01 | ENGINEER
01 | ENGINEER
Engineering Materials & Microenvironments
Engineering Materials & Microenvironments
We design nanoscale materials and engineered microenvironments with tunable physical and chemical properties to understand and modulate their interactions with biological systems and shape biological responses.
Representative Work
Kenry, Nanoscale 2024, 16, 7874-7883
Kenry et al., Advanced Therapeutics 2022, 5, 2100198
Kenry et al., ACS Nano 2021, 15, 17412-17425
02 | MEASURE
02 | MEASURE
Quantifying Material & Biological Phenotypes
Quantifying Material & Biological Phenotypes
We develop quantitative engineering approaches to characterize material properties and biological responses across length scales, revealing subtle heterogeneity that conventional measurements may miss.
Representative Work
Kenry, ACS Nanoscience Au 2026
Pham and Kenry, Advanced Intelligent Systems 2025, 7, e202500551
Kenry, Nanoscale 2024, 16, 19656-19668
03 | PREDICT
03 | PREDICT
AI-Enabled Predictive Bioengineering
AI-Enabled Predictive Bioengineering
We integrate machine learning with experimental measurements to uncover relationships between material properties, biological states, and physiological function to design next-generation biomedical technologies.
Representative Work
George and Kenry, Chem & Bio Engineering 2025, 2, 739-745
Wang and Kenry, Materials Chemistry Frontiers 2025, 9, 3339-3348
Wang and Kenry, Biomaterials Science 2025, 13, 2973-2982
Research Funding and Support
Research Funding and Support
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