Mingming Wu
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Mingming Wu is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering. She was drawn to the field of biological engineering by her admiration of the exquisite micro- and nano-scale machinery found in the natural world. She leads the Biofluidics Lab, which develops micro- and nano-scale technologies for solving contemporary biological, medical, and environmental problems. Her lab gains inspiration by exploring how tiny cells (often 1/10th of the width of a hair) move within a given microenvironment. Her lab motto is to see the unseeable and to measure the unmeasurable, all though the development of new technologies.
Contact Information
306 Riley Robb Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
mw272 [at] cornell.edu
Mingming in the news

News
Cornell researchers created cell-size robots that can be powered and steered by ultrasound waves. Despite their tiny size, these micro-robotic swimmers could be a formidable new tool for targeted drug delivery.
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Biology
- Health + Nutrition

FutureCast
In the search for more sustainable energy technologies, many of the solutions humans are turning to – rechargeable batteries, massive wind turbines, electric cars, LED lighting – rely on what are known as rare-earth elements. There are 17 rare...
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Energy