Kevin McHugh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Professor of Chemistry

kevin.mchugh@rice.edu

Dr. Kevin McHugh is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University whose research focuses on the development of  biomaterial systems with applications in drug delivery, vaccination, and regenerative medicine. Dr. McHugh received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2014. He then performed his postdoctoral work as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Robert Langer's lab at MIT before joining Rice in 2019. Dr. McHugh's work has attracted support from a number of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, private foundations, and start-up companies and resulted in more than more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in prestigious journals like Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS, Nano Today, and ACS Nano.