Hadi T. Nia, PhD Hear my name
Assistant Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, Sharif University of Technology
BS, Sharif University of Technology

Pronouns: he/him/his



Dr. Hadi T. Nia (BME, MSE) received his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 under the supervision of Drs Alan Grodzinsky and Christine Ortiz. He completed his Postdoctoral training as a NIH NCI Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow and at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Rakesh Jain. Currently, the overall research goal in Nia Laboratory is to combine the principles of engineering and physical sciences with molecular biology and oncology to answer key questions in cancer research, discover new vulnerabilities of cancer cells, and propose novel treatment strategies in the fight against cancer. The overall question of our interest is how the abnormal physical microenvironment of tumors affects development, progression and treatment in cancer.


CAREER: LungEx for Probing Multiscale Mechanobiology of Pulmonary Respiration-Circulation Coupling in Real-Time
08/15/2023 - 07/31/2028 (PI)
National Science Foundation
CMMI-2239162

Probing immunovascular mechanobiology in pneumonia-associated acute lung injury at the single capillary level
05/01/2023 - 04/30/2028 (Key Person / Mentor)
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
5F30HL168952-02

Uncovering Cell Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Governing Melanoma Dormancy at Single-Cell Resolution
06/01/2024 - 05/31/2027 (PI)
Department of Defense/Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity


Sloan Research Fellowship
09/15/2024 - 09/14/2026 (PI)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation


Development of Crystal Ribcage for Imaging of Functioning Lung at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
09/01/2022 - 08/31/2026 (PI)
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation


Probing functioning lung at the cellular resolution in health and disease
09/01/2022 - 08/31/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
1DP2HL168562-01

Classifying malignant pulmonary nodules using biophysics-enhanced artificial intelligence
09/01/2021 - 08/31/2024 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
1R21EB031332-01

Probing the physical and immune microenvironment in lung tumors at high spatiotemporal resolution
01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023 (Multi-PI)
PI: Hadi T. Nia, PhD
Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation, Inc.


Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowship for Gabrielle Grifno
09/01/2021 - 08/31/2023 (PI)
The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.


Cellular resolution imaging of drug delivery into tumors in functioning ex vivo lung
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022 (Multi-PI)
PI: Hadi T. Nia, PhD
Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation, Inc.


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  1. Nia HT, Datta M, Kumar AS, Siri S, Ferraro GB, Chatterjee S, McHugh JM, Ng PR, West TR, Rapalino O, Choi BD, Nahed BV, Munn LL, Jain RK. Solid stress estimations via intraoperative 3D navigation in patients with brain tumors. medRxiv. 2024 Dec 04. PMID: 39677483; PMCID: PMC11643154; DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.28.24318104;
     
  2. Martin A, Zhang S, Williamson A, Tingley B, Pickus M, Zurakowski D, Nia HT, Shirihai O, Han X, Grinstaff MW. Dispersion indices for universal quantification of fluorescently-labelled subcellular structure spatial distributions. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 19.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39229224; PMCID: PMC11370428; DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.18.608451;
     
  3. Rakhshandehroo T, Mantri SR, Moravej H, Louis BBV, Salehi Farid A, Munaretto L, Regan K, Khan RMM, Wolff A, Farkash Z, Cong M, Kuhnast A, Nili A, Lee UJ, Allen HH, Berland L, Simkova E, Uslu SC, Tavakolpour S, Rowley JE, Codet E, Shahbazian H, Baral J, Pyrdol J, Jacobson CA, Nadeem O, Nia HT, Wucherpfennig KW, Rashidian M. A CAR enhancer increases the activity and persistence of CAR T cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Jul 30. PMID: 39079964
     
  4. LeBourdais R, Grifno GN, Banerji R, Regan K, Suki B, Nia HT. Mapping the strain-stiffening behavior of the lung and lung cancer at microscale resolution using the crystal ribcage. Front Netw Physiol. 2024; 4:1396593.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39050550; PMCID: PMC11266057; DOI: 10.3389/fnetp.2024.1396593;
     
  5. Zheng S, Banerji R, LeBourdais R, Zhang S, DuBois E, O'Shea T, Nia HT. Alteration of mechanical stresses in the murine brain by age and hemorrhagic stroke. PNAS Nexus. 2024 Apr; 3(4):pgae141. PMID: 38659974; PMCID: PMC11042661; DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae141;
     
  6. Etesami NS, Barker KA, Shenoy AT, De Ana CL, Arafa EI, Grifno GN, Matschulat AM, Vannini ME, Pihl RMF, Breen MP, Soucy AM, Goltry WN, Ha CT, Betsuyaku H, Browning JL, Varelas X, Traber KE, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Maglione PJ, Nia HT, Belkina AC, Mizgerd JP. B cells in the pneumococcus-infected lung are heterogeneous and require CD4+ T cell help including CD40L to become resident memory B cells. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1382638.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38715601; PMCID: PMC11074383; DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1382638;
     
  7. Regan K, LeBourdais R, Banerji R, Zhang S, Muhvich J, Zheng S, Nia HT. Multiscale elasticity mapping of biological samples in 3D at optical resolution. Acta Biomater. 2024 Mar 01; 176:250-266. PMID: 38160857; PMCID: PMC10922809; DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2023.12.036;
     
  8. Hadzipasic M, Zhang S, Huang Z, Passaro R, Sten MS, Shankar GM, Nia HT. Emergence of nanoscale viscoelasticity from single cancer cells to established tumors. Biomaterials. 2024 Mar; 305:122431. PMID: 38169188; PMCID: PMC10837793; DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2023.122431;
     
  9. Banerji R, Grifno GN, Shi L, Smolen D, LeBourdais R, Muhvich J, Eberman C, Hiller BE, Lee J, Regan K, Zheng S, Zhang S, Jiang J, Raslan AA, Breda JC, Pihl R, Traber K, Mazzilli S, Ligresti G, Mizgerd JP, Suki B, Nia HT. Crystal ribcage: a platform for probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution. Nat Methods. 2023 Nov; 20(11):1790-1801.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37710017; PMCID: PMC10860663; DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02004-9;
     
  10. Zhang S, Grifno G, Passaro R, Regan K, Zheng S, Hadzipasic M, Banerji R, O'Connor L, Chu V, Kim SY, Yang J, Shi L, Karrobi K, Roblyer D, Grinstaff MW, Nia HT. Intravital measurements of solid stresses in tumours reveal length-scale and microenvironmentally dependent force transmission. Nat Biomed Eng. 2023 Nov; 7(11):1473-1492.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37640900; PMCID: PMC10836235; DOI: 10.1038/s41551-023-01080-8;
     
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2022-2026 Beckman Foundation: Beckman Young Investigator
2022-2027 NIH/NHLBI: NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2)
2021-2024 NIBIB Trailblazer Award
2020-2021 ACS-BU pilot Award
2020-2022 Dean’s Catalyst Award
2020-2021 Center for Translational Multiscale Biomechanics Award
2017 Gordon Research Conference on Physical Sciences of Cancer: Best poster award (3rd place)
2017-2019 NIH/National Cancer Institute: Ruth L. Kirschstein (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2016 MGPA Travel Award
2016-2017 Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
2012 De Florez Travel Award
2011 Finalist in YC FUNG Student Paper Competition in Bio-mechanics and Bio-physics
2011-2013 Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award
2008-2011 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Research Fellowship Awards
2004-2005 Japan Student Service Organization Fellowship Award
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