Ankur Singh is a Carl Ring Family professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. At Georgia Tech, he serves as the director of the Center for Immunoengineering.
Before Georgia Tech, he was a tenured associate professor at Cornell University. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. His laboratory develops immune organoids and enables technologies to understand healthy and diseased immune cells and translate therapeutics. He has received funding from the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation (NSF), Wellcome Leap HOPE, Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Curci Foundation, and the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society.
He has published more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Methods, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Immunology, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Protocols, Science Advances, Cell Reports, PNAS, Blood, and Advanced Materials. He has written multiple editorials for Science Translational Medicine. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Society for Biomaterials Mid-Career Award, Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Young Innovator Award, CMBE Rising Star Award, 3M Faculty Award, Department of Defense Career award, Georgia Tech Course Instructor Opinion Survey Teaching Award, and Cornell’s Teaching Excellence and Research Excellence Awards.
His immune organoids were identified among the Top 100 Discoveries of 2015 by Discover Magazine. He is the founder and past chair of the Immune Engineering Special Interest Group at the Society for Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society. He currently serves as the associate editor for Science Advances, Biomaterials, and Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. He serves on the executive advisory board of Advanced NanoBiomed Research journal and on the editor boards of Scientific Reports, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, and Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine.
