• Professor
• Temple Foundation Endowed Teaching Fellow in Engineering No. 1, William H.
• Tonn Professorial Assistance Fund

Research Interests

• Directing macrophage phenotype
• Inflammation in muscle repair
• Self-assembling nucleopeptides

Academic and professional background

Dr. Laura Suggs earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering with a concentration in biomaterials and tissue engineering from Rice University in 1998. She joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2004. In 2002, she received the National Science Foundation’s Advance Fellowship for outstanding female faculty.