Stabenfeldt leads her research team in developing regenerative medicine strategies for acute neural injury. Her expertise areas include regenerative medicine, targeted theranostics and neurotrauma.

Dr. Jennifer Barrila’s research integrates functional and multi-omics profiling across humans, animals, and bacteria to study how spaceflight and analog environments alter host-pathogen interactions to support human health.

Julianne’s research group integrates biomaterial design with innovative manufacturing to control and direct stem cell behavior for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications.