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Jianping Fu

Jianping Fu
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Associate Director, Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care
Jianping Fu's Group

Address

2664
GGB (George G. Brown Laboratory)

2350 Hayward 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125


Email
jpfu@umich.edu
Phone
(734) 615-7363

Degrees

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
MS, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
BE, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000

Research Interests

Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology, Mechanotransduction, Stem Cell Biology, Bioengineering, and BioMEMS

Honors and Awards

George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence Award, University of Michigan, 2018
Rising Star Award, Biomedical Engineering Society - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2016
Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award, University of Michigan, 2015
Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, 2014
Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research, University of Michigan, 2014
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2012
American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant, 2012
American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2010
Senturia Prize for Best Thesis in MEMS/NEMS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
Halen Carr Peake Research Prize for Bioengineering Research of Extraordinary Quality, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
PPST 20th Anniversary Research Excellence Award, First Runner-up, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
100K Entrepreneurship Competition, Semifinalist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
Massachusetts Technology Assessment Award, 2006

Faculty Type

Tenured and Tenure-Track

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Nine ME Students Receive 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States

The beginning of the amniotic sac

“People have a fairly good understanding of what happens in embryos before and after implantation,” said Jianping Fu, “But what is happening during implantation, including the process of amnion development, is a black box.”

Fu's paper published in Nature Materials

The paper is titled "Mechanosensitive subcellular rheostasis drives emergent single-cell mechanical homeostasis"

Fu's research featured as cover story of two journals

ME Associate Professor Jianping Fu's research has been selected for the cover story of the 2016 May 11 issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials and the 2016 May 4 issue of Small

Chance Encounter Leads to Use of Life-Saving Blood Analysis Device

This device, developed by a multidisciplinary team including ME professors Fu and Kurabayashi, is a microfluidic device that uses a miniscule amount of blood – a mere microliter – to achieve test results in 20 minutes

ME Faculty Receive CoE Awards

Four ME faculty members received College of Engineering Awards in 2015. These recipients include Jun Ni, Huei Peng, Katsuo Kurabayashi, and Jianping Fu