Dr. Xinyan Tracy Cui
Dr. Tracy Cui is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the Neural Engineering Track Coordinator for the Department of Bioengineering Graduate Committee and serves on the Department’s Faculty Search Committee. Prior to this she was a Research Scientist at Unilever Research US in Edgewater New Jersey. Dr. Cui earned her BE in Polymer Materials and Chemical Engineering and her MS Biophysics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She went on to earn her PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.Dr. Cui’s current research areas include: neural tissue/electrode interface, neural tissue engineering, and conducting polymer based biosensors, actuators, and controlled drug release systems. She is a member of the Material Research Society, the Society for Biomaterials, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the American Physical Society. She has won several awards, including the National Science Foundation Career Award (2008), the Wallace Coulter Foundation Early Career Award (2005), and the Charles G. Overberger Award for Research Excellence (2000). She serves as a grant agency reviewer for the National Science Foundation: SBIT/STTR Review Panels Biochips II as well as the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Dr. Cui holds two U.S. patents, and she is a reviewer for several prestigious journals, such as: Biomaterials, Journal of Controlled Release, and Acta Biomaterialia, amongst others.
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Dr. Tracy Cui, Ph.DPhone: (412)624-1079
Email: xic11@pitt.edu