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Neha P. Kamat | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Rice University University of Pennsylvania Harvard University Northwestern University |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Hammer |
| Website | nehakamat.com |
Neha P. Kamat
[edit]Neha Kamat is an American professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science of Northwestern University. At Northwestern, she is a member of the Center for Synthetic Biology and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and a preceptor with the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program and the Molecular Biophysics Training Program.[1]
Background
[edit]Kamat was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. Her father, Prashant V. Kamat, is a Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. In 2008, Kamat graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rice University, where she received her B.S. in Bioengineering and completed research under Dr. Jennifer West. She earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering under Dr. Daniel Hammer in 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed her postdoctoral studies at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Jack Szostak.
Research
[edit]In 2017, Kamat joined the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute at Northwestern University. She leads the Laboratory of Biomembrane Engineering at Northwestern, which focuses on using synthetic biology techniques to design membrane-based biomaterial for applications in medicine, environmental modeling, and basic biology.
Kamat's group applies the principles of cell biology to engineer artificial cell which can sense and report environmental analytes and environmental physical changes and synthesize useful products. In 2019, her team showed that artificial cells could be placed in a solution to measure the concentration of specific ions[2], a key factor in health and bioengineering. Her research has also explored how these artificial cells can interact with biological systems; for example by binding to viruses and preventing them from infecting human cells[3].
Her group also investigates membrane mechanobiology with the ultimate goal of understanding why cells change their composition as a function of cell type, organelle, and/or in response to environmental stimuli and what effect these composition changes have on the physical properties of cell membranes.[4]
Awards and Honors
[edit]Kamat has received a number of awards, including the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award in 2021 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She also received the Young Investigator Research Program Award from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2019. She also received the Beckman Scholars award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation in 2005.
- 2021: NSF CAREER Award[5]
- 2021: 2021 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Award[6]
- 2021: BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award[7]
- 2019: Rice Outstanding Young Engineering Alum Award[8]
- 2018: Cornew Innovation Award, Chemistry of Life Processes, Northwestern University[9]
- 2018: Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Recipient[10]
- 2018: Selected for the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium[11]
- 2016: Rice Bioengineering Outstanding Undergraduate Alumna Award[12]
- 2013: Solomon R. Pollack Award; thesis award in Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania[13]
- 2009-2012: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania[14]
- 2005-2007: Beckman Scholars Award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation[15]
- 2004: Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist[16]
- ^ "Kamat, Neha | Faculty | Northwestern Engineering". www.mccormick.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ Build-a-Cell seminar Neha Kamat: Harnessing vesicle membranes to assemble in-situ biosensors, retrieved 2022-02-21
- ^ Gunnels, Taylor F.; Stranford, Devin M.; Mitrut, Roxana E.; Kamat, Neha P.; Leonard, Joshua N. (2021-12-10). "Elucidating design principles for engineering cell-derived vesicles to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection". bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology: 2021.12.04.471153. doi:10.1101/2021.12.04.471153. PMC 8669840. PMID 34909773.
- ^ "Research – Kamat Lab". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Neha Kamat Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award". Northwestern Engineering. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ King, Michael R.; Kumar, Sanjay; West, Jennifer (2021-10-01). "The 2021 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering". Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 14 (5): 379–380. doi:10.1007/s12195-021-00709-5. ISSN 1865-5033. PMC 8548452. PMID 34777598.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ^ "BMES". www.bmes.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Alumni Awards". George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Cornew Awardees". Chemistry of Life Processes Institute. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Neha Kamat Receives Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award". Northwestern Engineering. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Innovative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2018 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium". NAE Website. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Alumni Awards". Department of Bioengineering | Rice University. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Graduate Student Awards". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "NSF FastLane :: GRFP". www.research.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Neha Kamat". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ Intel Science Talent Search