The Wilson Laboratory is working at the interface of engineering and immunology to improve human health. Our mission is to cure, detect, treat or prevent myriad disease through the design of novel molecularly engineered materials that interrogate the immune system in defined and specific manners. We are guided by the principle that the immune system must dictate therapeutic design requirements, and we turn to nature for inspiration to engineer highly modular and tunable materials to accommodate these criteria. By bringing together expertise in colloid and surface engineering, advanced polymerization techniques, cellular engineering and drug delivery, we are developing innovative therapeutic approaches that specifically target and tightly regulate the delivery of immunomodulatory cues to the organs, cells, and intracellular pathways of the immune system.