Matthew Rich

Dr. Rich earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2023. His thesis work focused on how age and mechanical forces mediate the risk for idiopathic Osteoarthritis in advanced-aged individuals. In the summer of 2023, he joined the C-CNTP program under the mentorship of Dr. William Zamboni and Dr. William Polacheck. He will investigate the development of an organ-on-chip platform to study the pharmacokinetics of nanoparticle delivery to hypovascularized solid tumors.