10/19/2026
🎉 Congratulations, Afla Ibnat Kohon, we’re thrilled to celebrate with you for successfully defending your PhD dissertation! 👏
Her research asks why so many promising nanoparticles fail to make it to the clinic, and her answer is that the lab models used to test them often miss how disease changes the environment around cells.
Using organ-on-a-chip platforms, tunable hydrogels, and high-throughput screening, she studied how tissue stiffness and stretch change cell behavior and nanoparticle uptake. She also developed a cell printing method to control how cells are arranged, paving the way for more realistic models to screen nanotherapeutics.
Her work brings us closer to smarter, better-targeted drug delivery.
Dr. Afla, we are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what’s next!
Nanomedicine OrganOnAChip BiomedicalEngineering
