David Odde

David Odde, PhD, is the Medtronic Professor of Engineering in Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Odde’s group builds computer models of cellular and molecular self-assembly and force-generation-dissipation dynamics, and tests the models experimentally using digital microscopic imaging of living cells ex vivo and in engineered microenvironments. His group seeks to bring an engineering approach that uses physics-based modeling and analysis to understand, predict, and control disease outcomes (oddelab.umn.edu). As part of his modeling practice, Dr. Odde’s lab group collaborates with Black Label Movement to develop human movement as an approach to simulating cellular and molecular processes underlying cancer progression.