David Long

Lecturer
BS Tennessee Tech., MS PhD Ill. (jointly with Engineering Science)

Contact details
UniServices House,
Room 707
70 Symonds Street
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 81818
Email: d.long@auckland.ac.nz

Profile

David Long graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University, and Master of Science and PhD degrees (mechanical engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After completing his PhD, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University where he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the US National Institutes of Health.

In May 2009, David joined The University of Auckland as a Principal Investigator in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and as Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science.

Research interests

The primary focus of David’s research programme centres on the spatial and temporal dynamics of the interface between circulating blood and the vascular endothelium. Major areas of David’s research programme are:

• endothelial cell mechanobiology and heterogeneity, and its relation to health and disease;
• cardiovascular genomics;
• developmental determinants of disease;
• glycans and cell signaling; and
• mathematical and computational physiology

The overarching goal of David’s research programme is to contribute to the diagnostic strategies of, and the therapeutic strategies targeting, the endothelium.