Karin Wang

Karin Wang

  • College of Engineering

    Bioengineering

    Assistant Professor

Office Location

College of Engineering Building Room 806

Phone

215-204-3751

Biography

Dr. Karin Wang is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Temple University. Her research program leverages principles from tissue engineering, biomaterials science, soft matter physics, and cell biology to engineer reductionist model systems that probe cell and matrix dynamics. The interdisciplinary approaches used in her lab are aimed at enhancing our fundamental understanding of structure-function relationships from the molecular to multicellular level, to understand how physical forces regulate cell-matrix interactions in health and disease.

Dr. Karin Wang received her BS in Applied Math and Statistics and BE/MS in Biomedical Engineering from Stony Brook University in 2010. She received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2015, studying how the materials properties of matrix proteins drive tumor progression and was awarded NSF DGE GK-12 Teaching Fellowships. During her postdoctoral training from 2015-2018 to investigate the underlying physical drivers of collective cellular migration, she was a NIH NCI F32 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences Program in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Labs: Research Website

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Research Interests

  • Cell and matrix mechanobiology
    Structure-function relationships
    Collective migration
    Extracellular matrix remodeling
    Tissue engineered model systems

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOE 0844

The Bionic Human

Undergraduate

BIOE 2001

Frontiers in Bioengineering

Undergraduate

BIOE 2101

Engineering Principles of Physiological Systems

Undergraduate

BIOE 3719

Introduction to Bioengineering

Undergraduate

BIOE 4500

Special Topics: Mechanobiology

Undergraduate

BIOE 5500

Special Topics: Mechanobiology

Graduate

BIOE 5600

Bioengineering Graduate Seminar

Graduate

BIOE 5719

Introduction to Bioengineering

Graduate

Selected Publications

Featured

  • Patten, J. & Wang, K. (2021). Fibronectin in development and wound healing. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 170, pp. 353-368. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2020.09.005

  • Seo, B.R., Chen, X., Ling, L., Song, Y.H., Shimpi, A.A., Choi, S., Gonzalez, J., Sapudom, J., Wang, K., Eguiluz, R., Gourdon, D., Shenoy, V.B., & Fischbach, C. (2020). Collagen microarchitecture mechanically controls myofibroblast differentiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(21). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919394117

  • Kim, J.H., Pegoraro, A.F., Das, A., Koehler, S.A., Ujwary, S.A., Lan, B., Mitchel, J.A., Atia, L., He, S., Wang, K., Bi, D., Zaman, M.H., Park, J.A., Butler, J.P., Lee, K.H., Starr, J.R., & Fredberg, J.J. (2020). Unjamming and collective migration in MCF10A breast cancer cell lines. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 521(3), pp. 706-715. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.10.188

  • Wang, K., Wu, F., Seo, B.o.R.i., Fischbach, C., Chen, W., Hsu, L., & Gourdon, D. (2017). Breast cancer cells alter the dynamics of stromal fibronectin-collagen interactions. Matrix Biol, 60-61, pp. 86-95. Netherlands. doi: 10.1016/j.matbio.2016.08.001

  • Wang, K., Cai, L., Lan, B.o., & Fredberg, J.J. (2016). Hidden in the mist no more: physical force in cell biology. Nat Methods, 13(2), pp. 124-125. United States. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3744

  • Wang, K., Seo, B.o.R.i., Fischbach, C., & Gourdon, D. (2016). Fibronectin Mechanobiology Regulates Tumorigenesis. Cell Mol Bioeng, 9, pp. 1-11. United States. doi: 10.1007/s12195-015-0417-4

  • Seo, B.o.R.i., Bhardwaj, P., Choi, S., Gonzalez, J., Eguiluz, R.C.A., Wang, K., Mohanan, S., Morris, P.G., Du, B., Zhou, X.i.K., Vahdat, L.T., Verma, A., Elemento, O., Hudis, C.A., Williams, R.M., Gourdon, D., Dannenberg, A.J., & Fischbach, C. (2015). Obesity-dependent changes in interstitial ECM mechanics promote breast tumorigenesis. Sci Transl Med, 7(301), p. 301ra130. United States. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3010467

  • Wang, K., Eguiluz, R.C.A., Wu, F., Seo, B.o.R.i., Fischbach, C., & Gourdon, D. (2015). Stiffening and unfolding of early deposited-fibronectin increase proangiogenic factor secretion by breast cancer-associated stromal cells. Biomaterials, 54, pp. 63-71. Netherlands. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.03.019

  • D'Alfonso, T.M., Wang, K., Chiu, Y., & Shin, S.J. (2013). Pathologic upgrade rates on subsequent excision when lobular carcinoma in situ is the primary diagnosis in the needle core biopsy with special attention to the radiographic target. Arch Pathol Lab Med, 137(7), pp. 927-935. United States. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2012-0297-OA

  • Hashi, C.K., Zhu, Y., Yang, G., Young, W.L., Hsiao, B.S., Wang, K., Chu, B., & Li, S. (2007). Antithrombogenic property of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in nanofibrous vascular grafts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104(29), pp. 11915-11920. United States. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704581104

Recent

  • Krohn-Grimberghe, M., Mitchell, M.J., Schloss, M.J., Khan, O.F., Courties, G., Guimaraes, P., Rohde, D., Cremer, S., Kowalski, P.S., Sun, Y., Tan, M., Webster, J., Wang, K., Iwamoto, Y., Schmidt, S.P., Wojtkiewicz, G.R., Nayar, R., Frodermann, V., Hulsmans, M., Chung, A., Hoyer, F.F., Swirski, F.K., Langer, R., Anderson, D.G., & Nahrendorf, M. (2020). Nanoparticle-encapsulated siRNAs for gene silencing in the haematopoietic stem-cell niche. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 4(11), pp. 1076-1089. doi: 10.1038/s41551-020-00623-7

  • Guimaraes, P., Tan, M., Tammela, T., Wu, K., Chung, A., Oberli, M., Wang, K., Spektor, R., Riley, R.S., Viana, C., Jacks, T., Langer, R., & Mitchell, M.J. (2018). Potent in vivo lung cancer Wnt signaling inhibition via cyclodextrin-LGK974 inclusion complexes. Journal of Controlled Release, 290, pp. 75-87. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.09.025

  • Wan, A.M., Inal, S., Williams, T., Wang, K., Leleux, P., Estevez, L., Giannelis, E.P., Fischbach, C., Malliaras, G.G., & Gourdon, D. (2015). 3D Conducting Polymer Platforms for Electrical Control of Protein Conformation and Cellular Functions. J Mater Chem B, 3(25), pp. 5040-5048. England. doi: 10.1039/C5TB00390C

  • Wang, K., Eguiluz, R., Wu, F., Seo, B.R., Benson, V., Brown, C.N., Fischbach, C., & Gourdon, D. (2014). Altered unfolding and stiffening of fibronectin for tumor progression. Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC, 2014-December. doi: 10.1109/NEBEC.2014.6972970