Jeffrey R Morgan

Jeffrey R Morgan is a tenured Professor at Brown University, holding dual appointments in the School of Engineering and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He directs the Center for Alternatives to Animals in Testing and has pioneered the 3D PetriDish® technology for scaffold-free tissue engineering.

• Education: PhD (Harvard), BS (Syracuse)
• Key Collaborators: Kim Boekelheide, Eric Darling, Anubhav Tripathi

Research Focus:
3D Tissue Engineering – Developing complex microtissue geometries (toroids, honeycombs) and studying tissue fusion for organ-scale fabrication.
Cell-Cell Mechanics – Quantifying forces in multicellular aggregates to understand fibrosis and tissue remodeling.
Drug Transport – Using spheroids to model drug uptake, efflux pumps, and multi-drug resistance in cancer.

Article Trends:
Recent work emphasizes 3D spheroid platforms for toxicity testing, collagen mechanics, and automated bio-manufacturing tools. Keywords span Biomedical Engineering, Tissue Morphogenesis, and Drug Discovery, with sub-fields including ECM alignment, microtissue hydrodynamics, and scaffold-free organoids.

Scientific Recognition:

• 1996 La Roche-Posay Prize
• 2015 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
• 2016 American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow
• 2014-2025 Editorial roles and collaborative grants

Labs and Teams:
Leads a multidisciplinary lab at Brown collaborating with engineers, pathologists, and biomedical researchers. His team focuses on self-assembling microtissues, drug transport quantification, and toxicity modeling, with partnerships in the Center for Alternatives to Animals in Testing and School of Engineering.