Faculty & Staff

Dr. Piyush Koria

Dr. Piyush Koria

Professor of chemical, biological, and materials engineering

Phone: 813-974-6243 | Office: ENG 248

Email: pkoria@usf.edu

Research cluster: Biotechnology


Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Research Poster, Wound Healing Society Annual Conference, 2018
  • USF New Researcher Award, 2013
  • Shriners Fellow, Shriner Hospital for Children, 2009

Education and Training

  • Postdoctoral appointment, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Shriners Hospital for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

  • PhD, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo,.

  • BTech, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 208016.


Research Overview

The overall goal of research of our lab focuses on the healing of injured tissues. Specifically, we focus on understanding the etiology of chronic wounds. We employ tools in protein engineering, material science and drug delivery for development of therapies for chronic wound healing.

Koria lab research image