About
The Dooling Lab in Molecular and Cellular Immunoengineering
Established 2025
William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston
Welcome to the Dooling Lab @ UH
News
April 29, 2026
Second-year graduate student Afra Azim presented a poster on her research on macrophage phagocytosis of cohesive structures at the UH Drug Discovery Institute Annual Symposium.
January 1, 2026
The group has received a grant from the Convergent Science Cancer Consortium involving researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, and UH. Our pilot project is focused on the role of …
December 10, 2025
Larry presented at CellBio 2025 – the annual meeting for the American Society for Cell Biology – in Philadelphia, PA and caught up with current and former Discher lab members.
Research
Our research will apply the tools of Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering & Biomaterials Science to study the immune system – especially Macrophages and their defining effector function, Phagocytosis. At the same time, …
Publications
Please check out the Publications page for examples of the research projects we’ll be undertaking in the Dooling Lab.
People
We are currently assembling a team of engineers and scientists to get started tackling important problems in Molecular and Cellular Immunoengineering.
Contact
Visit
University of Houston
Cullen College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg 1
Houston. TX 77204-4007
Email
ljdooling at uh.edu