Hadi Nia

Hadi T. Nia is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Affiliated Professor in Division of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Boston University. He received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology and did his doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Drs. Alan Grodzinsky and Christine Ortiz. He then moved to Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School for his post-doctoral training under the mentorship of Dr. Rakesh Jain where he studied the tumor microenvironment with a focus on the physical hallmarks of cancer. 

Nia’s current research include developing novel models and tools for imaging the lung in real-time and at the cellular resolution to probe the links between the lung physics, biology, and immunity in health and disease. Nia has received multiple awards for his research including NIH Director’s New Innovator, NSF CAREER, Beckman Young Investigator, and NIBIB Trailblazer awards.

The Nia Lab conducts research at the interface of physical sciences, molecular biology, and immunology to answer the key questions in cancer (primary and metastasis) and pulmonary pathologies such as pneumonia, fibrosis, and COPD.  They develop and utilize sophisticated models of disease in multiple scales (whole organ to single cell), and in multiple settings (in vivo, ex vivo, in vitro, and in silico). The researchers are particularly interested in mechanobiology and mechano-immunity in the context of cancer metastasis, aging, and pathogen transmission/transport.

Research Areas: Mechanobiology and mechano-immunity, Tumor microenvironment, Physical sciences of cancer, Intravital imaging and animal models of cancer, Pulmonary pathogenesis

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