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Claudia Loebel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Dr. Claudia Loebel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and a core faculty member of the Penn Center for Precision Engineering for Health. She earned her medical degree from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany and completed her Ph.D. at ETH Zürich, followed by postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Jason Burdick at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Loebel launched her independent research group at the University of Michigan in 2021 before joining the University of Pennsylvania in January 2025. Her research focuses on understanding how cells build, sense, and remodel their surrounding extracellular matrix, with a particular interest in how these dynamic matrix interactions regulate cell fate, tissue repair, and fibrosis in the lung. The Loebel lab develops engineered biomaterials, bioorthogonal labeling strategies, ex vivo tissue models, and in vivo models to study nascent extracellular matrix formation and mechanobiology in health and disease. Through this work, the lab aims to uncover how early changes in the extracellular matrix contribute to lung dysfunction and to develop new strategies to guide regeneration and prevent fibrosis.

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