Dr. Nirosha Murugan is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Tissue Biophysics and Distinguished Research Chair and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University. As an applied biophysicist, her work explores how patterned physical signals, such as light and magnetism, govern cellular plasticity, tissue regeneration, and the reprogramming of biological state. Her approach reframes biology not solely as a molecular system, but as a dynamic network governed by first principles in physics. Her lab bridges quantum mechanics and biophysics with biomedical engineering to decode how physical signals act as carriers of structured information and sculpt the body's energetic architecture.
Nirosha earned her BSc in Behavioural Neuroscience, MSc in Biophysics, and PhD in Biomolecular Sciences at Laurentian University, where she pioneered quantum sensor-based technologies for non-invasive cancer detection, now commercialized through HelioFlux Inc. As a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Levin’s laboratory at Tufts University, she demonstrated that non neural systems use biophysical cues for decision making and, in collaboration with David Kaplan, developed a patented, silk hydrogel delivery system that induced limb regeneration in non-regenerative animals by leveraging the mechanical and bioelectric properties of the system. To learn more about her research and ongoing work in the Murugan Lab, visit themuruganlab.com.