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Alex Hughes is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from California and New Zealand, he graduated with a B.E./B.Sc. in Chemical & Materials Engineering/Pharmacology at the University of Auckland, NZ in 2008. He completed his graduate studies at UC Berkeley in 2013 working with Amy Herr on microfluidic and single-cell proteomics. Dr. Hughes then completed a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellowship with Zev Gartner at UC San Francisco, where he developed DNA-based cell patterning technologies to model the mechanical and cell collective basis of curvature at tissue interfaces during embryonic development.

Dr. Hughes's research focuses on engineering organogenesis. Most recently the Hughes lab has studied the cellular, signaling, and mechanical basis of kidney development using human kidney organoids, advanced cell patterning and imaging technologies, and dynamic tissue scaffolds. Dr. Hughes's honors and awards include a 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Junior Faculty Award and 2021 NSF CAREER Award.

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