Erika Moore » Faculty
Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Materials Science & Engineering
Work 487 Wertheim Lab for Engineering Excellence work Work Phone: (352) 846-3781work Work Email: moore.erika@ufl.eduINTERNET Website: The Moore Lab
B.S., 2013, Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., 2018, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020, The Johns Hopkins University
Lab Website: The Moore Lab
Research Summary: Dr. Erika Moore is the inaugural Rhines Rising Star Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She defended her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in May of 2018. She earned her bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Dr. Moore's work broadly focuses on understanding how immune cells can be leveraged to enhance tissue regeneration.
Under the guidance of Dr. Jennifer L. West at Duke University, Dr. Moore's thesis focused on the use of macrophages, innate immune cells, to support vascularized engineered tissue. This work has been published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Biosystems, and the journal of Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine. Dr. Moore was also awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation award from Duke University for this work. Dr. Moore also worked as the Provost's Post-Doctoral Fellow and a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering until June 2020. Working with Dr. Jennifer H. Elisseeff, Erika focused on profiling B cell responses to injury in small animal models. Ongoing research efforts of the Moore Lab seek to develop materials capable of directing immune cells towards desired clinical outcomes as well as developing in vitro tissue models to profile immune cell-blood vessel interactions in clinically relevant disease settings.
Recently acknowledged as Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Healthcare category, Dr. Moore is a former Trustee on the Duke Board of Trustees. She has been awarded the KL2 NIH Training grant through the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a Space Research Initiative grant, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
Notable Awards Include:
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30, Class of 2021- Health care
2020 KL2 Scholar, National Center for Advancement of Translational Science via UF Clinical Translational Science Institute
2019 Study Participant, National Research Mentoring Network (N.R.M.N.) SETH Grant Writing Coaching Study
2019 Future Research Leaders Conference of the National Institutes of Health, NIH Scientific Workforce Diversity
2019 University of Florida National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development Faculty Success Program grant ($5000 grant to enroll in Faculty Development course)
2018 Rhines Family Rising Star Professorship (an endowed assistant professorship), The University of Florida
2018 Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
2018 BME Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering
2017 M.I.T. Rising Star, MIT Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering and Science
2017 Trustee, Duke University Board of Trustees
2016 NextProf Scholar, University of Michigan NextProf for Engineering
2013 BioCoRE Scholar, Duke BioCoRE Program (NIH-IMSD Training Grant)
2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation
2013 Pre-doctoral Ford Foundation Fellow (awarded but declined), Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
2013 James B. Duke Fellowship, The Graduate School of Duke University
2013 Dean's Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School of Duke University
2012 U.N.C.F./Merck Undergraduate Research Fellowship, U.N.C.F./Merck Science Initiative
2009 Hodson-Gilliam Success Scholar, Johns Hopkins University