Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Erica D. Pratt is the Moorman-Simon Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. The Pratt Laboratory focuses on the development of noninvasive molecular and functional tools to inform personalized precision cancer care.
Prof. Pratt earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Cornell University. She completed her postdoctoral research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Minnesota, funded by a NIH T32 Fellowship and Momental Foundation Unfettered Research Grant.
- Synthetic Biology, Tissue Engineering, & Mechanobiology
- Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems
- Liquid biopsy for early stage cancer detection & monitoring