Jamel Ali, Ph.D.

• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Howard University, 2011 
• M.S., Chemical Engineering, Howard University, 2013 
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, 2016 

• Micro/nanobiorobotics 
• Microbial dynamics 
• Biomaterials for bio/biomedical applications

Selected Publications:

1. Elizondo, D. M., Brandy, N. Z. D., da Silva, R. L. L., de Moura, T. R., Ali, J., Yang, D., & Lipscomb, M. W. (2020). Pancreatic islets seeded in a novel bioscaffold forms an organoid to rescue insulin production and reverse hyperglycemia in models of type 1 diabetes. Scientific Reports, 10, 4362. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60947-x 

2. Ali, J., Cheang, U. K., Martindale, J. D., Jabbarzadeh, M., Fu, H. C., & Kim, M. J. (2017). Bacteria-inspired nanorobots with flagellar polymorphic transformations and bundling. Scientific Reports, 7, 14098. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14457-y

3. Ali, J., Cheang, U. K., Darvish, A., & Kim, M. J. (2017). Biotemplated flagellar nanoswimmers. APL materials, 5, 116106. doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5001777

4. Cheang, U. K., Ali, J., Kim, H., Rogowski, L., & Kim, M. J. (2017). On-surface locomotion of particle based microrobots using magnetically induced oscillation. Micromachines, 8, 46. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/mi8020046

5. Ali, J., Kim, H., Cheang, U. K., & Kim, M. J. (2016). MicroPIV measurements of flows induced by rotating microparticles near a boundary. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 20, 131. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-016-1794-2