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This site offers UMKC faculty training and resources for setting up their OpenScholar academic websites.

Welcome to the Soft Biomedical Interfaces Lab! Smart micro and nanomaterials can serve as tools for guiding cell behavior. The Soft Biomedical Interfaces Lab seeks to engineer soft and hybrid biomaterials with tailored physicochemical properties and investigate cell-material interactions. We aim to shed light on major cell/tissue biology issues and translate knowledge into novel neural engineering and regenerative medicine approaches and therapies for pressing biomedical problems.

Sirisha Naidu is Associate Professor of Economics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Her research focuses on feminist political economy analyses of agrarian change and ecological shifts, environmental justice, the interwoven tapestry of productive and reproductive labor in the Global South, and informal and precarious work in the global economy.