Dr. Nathan Richbourg

Dr. Nathan Richbourg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research leverages fundamental insight into multi-property hydrogel design to evaluate how cell-environment interactions drive disease development in the bone marrow microenvironment. Improved hydrogel design, by controlling stiffness, protein transport, and biochemical properties, creates new opportunities for guiding cell behavior in artificial, 3D microenvironments. This approach aims to better characterize hematopoiesis, cancer metastasis to bone marrow, and the role of cellular senescence in aging bone marrow.