The Hernandez Research Group lead by Prof. Christopher J. Hernandez is part of the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. We are part of the Health Innovations Via Engineering (HIVE) center and the UCSF Musculoskeletal Center.
Congrats to Kelsey DeFrates who received an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship after establishing a collaboration between our lab and Joanne Engel
Leo completed his PhD in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley/UCSF in the Rubinsky Group and is excited about advancing engineered living materials
Congrats on Cleo Liu who successfully defended her dissertation!
Congrats to Nick who will be doing his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Arizona!
Samuel Stephen has been awarded the prestigious UC Postdoctoral Fellowship! Congrats Sam!
Sam Stephen just completed his PhD at RPI with Deepak Vashsishth and will join us to figure out how the gut microbiome modifies bone matrix
Congrats to postdoc Kelsey DeFrates who received a research grant for her independent work on the biomechanics of bacteria.
Cangratulations to Junsung Lee who completed his PhD and is moving on to a postdoc in New York City!
We’re sad to see her go, but we are so proud of Erika Cyphert as she starts her lab at UC San Diego!
Hannah is a DDS/PhD student and Natasha is a new Bioengineering PhD student.
Congrats to Karan and Jiren
Prof. Hernandez visited the White House on April 18 as part of a delegation of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers to advocate for increased participation of Latinos in engineering.
The lab at UCSF has officially opened! Looking forward to working with all of the amazing people at UCSF and UC Berkeley.