Hudson Laboratory

The Hudson Lab uses cutting edge techniques to study the structural and mechanical properties of blood clots. By blending physics, biochemistry, and medicine, our interdisciplinary work seeks to understand fundamental mechanisms that regulate hemostasis. This understanding has the long-term potential of both enabling the reverse engineering of novel biomaterials that utilize proteins from the blood clotting cascade and promoting the development of novel therapeutic approaches to combating coagulation-related diseases. Students in the lab come from a variety of majors including physics, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and engineering. Because of their interdisciplinary training, they have launched into numerous STEM-related careers including becoming medical physicists, pharmaceutical scientists, data analysts, medical doctors, professors, engineers, and laboratory technicians.