Morgan Huse

Morgan Huse is a Professor at the Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences, where he leads the Immunology Program and contributes to Biochemistry & Structural Biology initiatives. His lab bridges imaging technology, synthetic chemistry, and materials science to decode immune cell-cell interactions.

• Research Focus: Immune cell mechanobiology, cytotoxic T/NK cell function, immunological synapse architecture, and biophysical signaling regulation
• Methodologies: Super-resolution traction force microscopy, synthetic microenvironments, Zernike spectral decomposition, actin dynamics modeling

Scientific Contributions include defining mechanical force patterns in immune cytotoxicity and discovering PTEN's role in synaptic compression. His work on interfacial mechanotypes has reshaped understanding of immune-target cell communication.

• Awards: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar, Searle Scholar, Cancer Research Institute Investigator, Helen Hay Whitney Fellow
• Grants: NIH R01 AI087644 and R01 AI100874