Primary Faculty
Lesley W. Chow
Associate Professor
Biography
Education:
Northwestern University,
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
University of Florida,
BS, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Summary:
The Chow Lab is currently focused on approaches to improve regeneration of musculoskeletal tissue interfaces, such as the osteochondral interface between bone and cartilage. Recreating these complex interface poses a significant engineering challenge as native tissues possess gradients in biochemical, structural, and mechanical properties that are critical for normal biomechanical function. Her team is developing biomaterials-based strategies to guide spatial cell behavior and tissue formation to engineer tissues that mimic these structure-function-property relationships.
Honors and Awards:
Lehigh University Inclusive Excellence Faculty Award, 2025
RoosterBio Development Award, 2024
Society for Biomaterials Mid-Career Award, 2024
Rossin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Advising, 2023
Gilbert E. Doan Award for Student Mentoring, 2023
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2022
Rossin Award for Interdisciplinary Research Excellence, 2022
American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymer Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigator Award, 2022
Early Career Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Engineering Division, 2021
Rossin Award for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, 2021
Invited Participant and Intellectual Leader, National Cancer Institute / National Science Foundation Square Table (SQT) Meeting on Living Materials, 2021
Frank Hook Assistant Professorship, 2020
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2020
Harold B. Chambers Junior Professorship, 2019