Ahmet F Coskun

Ahmet Coskun is a Bernie-Marcus Early-Career Professor and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Coskun is a systems biotechnologist and bioengineer, working at the nexus of multiplexed cell imaging and quantitative tissue biology. He directs an interdisciplinary research team at the Single Cell Biotechnology and Spatial Omics Laboratory, an interdisciplinary program strategically positioned for multiparameter imaging, one cell at a time, by spatial context and function. Coskun holds five issued patents and is also the co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2024, NIH R35 MIRA Award 2023, Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award 2025, CMBE Young Innovator Award 2024, BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award 2023, American Lung Association Innovation Award 2022, Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI Award 2016, and Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 CIOS Award, among other research and teaching awards. Previously, Coskun was an instructor at Stanford University. He received his postdoctoral training from the California Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has been supported by federal and private grants, including the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS, NIA, NIAID, NCI, NIDCR, OD, and ORIP), Wellcome LEAP, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (CASI), NSF CMaT, American Cancer Society IRG, Multi-cellular engineered living systems (M-CELS), and Regenerative Medicine Center. In addition, he leads outreach programs to engage K-12 and undergraduate students through BioCrowd Studio, an innovative crowdsourcing program that combines interactive virtual media, distributed bio-kits, and collaborative spatial discovery.

Selected Publications

S. Cai, T. Hu, A. Venkataraman, F.  G. Rivera Moctezuma, E. Ozturk, N. Zhang, M. Wang, T. Zvidzai, S. Das, A. Pillai, F. Schneider, S. S. Ramalingam, Y. Oh, S.Y. Sun, and A. F. Coskun, “’Spatially resolved subcellular protein–protein interactomics in drug-perturbed lung-cancer cultures and tissues,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, doi: 10.1038/s41551-024-01271-x, 2025.

T. Hu, Allam, S. Cai, W. Henderson, B. Yueh, A. Garipcan, A. Ievlev, M. Afkarian, S. Beyaz, and A. F Coskun, “Single-cell spatial metabolomics with cell-type specific protein profiling for tissue systems biology,” Nature Communications, 14, 8260, 2023.

S. Ganesh, T. Hu, Woods, M. Allam, S. Cai, W. Henderson, and A. F. Coskun, “Spatially resolved 3D metabolomic profiling in tissues,” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 5, p. eabd0957, 2021

Z. Fang, K. Krusen, H. Priest, M. Wang, S. Kim, A. Sriram, A. Yellaki, A. Singh, E. Horwitz, A. F. Coskun, “Graph-based 3D spatial gene neighborhood networks of single cells in gels and tissues,” BME Frontiers (AAAS), 6, 0110, 2025

Collaborative Publications

Y. Qiu, J. Lin, A. Wang, Z. Fang, Y. Sakurai, H. Choi, E. K. Williams, E. T. Hardy, K. Maher, A. F. Coskun, G. Woods, W. A. Lam, “Clinically relevant clot resolution via a thromboinflammation-on-a-chip,” Nature, 2025.

R. Ringquist, E. Bhatia, P. Chatterjee, D. Maniar, Z. Fang, P. Franz, L. Kramer, D. Ghoshal, N. Sonthi, E. Downey, J. Canlas, A. Ochal, S. Agarwal, V. Cuellar, G. Harrigan, A. F. Coskun, A. Singh, K. Roy, “Modeling the Human Immune Response to Severe Influenza Infection in an Immunocompetent Lung-on-Chip,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2025. 

Z. Zhong, M. Quiñones-Pérez, Z. Dai, V. M. Juarez, E. Bhatia, C. R. Carlson, S. B. Shah, A. Patel, Z. Fang, T. Hu, M. Allam, S. L. Hicks, M. Gupta, S. L. Gupta, E. Weeks, S. D. Vagelos, A. Molina, A. Mulero-Russe, A. Mora-Boza, D. J. Joshi, R. P. Sekaly, T. Sulchek, S. L. Goudy, J. Wrammert, K. Roy, J. M. Boss, A. F. Coskun, C. D. Scharer, A. J. García, J. L. Koff, and A. Singh, “Human immune organoids to decode B cell response in healthy donors and patients with lymphoma,” Nature Materials, doi: 10.1038/s41563-024-02037-1, 2024.

S. Shah, C. Carlson, K. Lai, Z. Zhong, G. Marsico, K. Lee, N. Félix-Velez, E. Abeles, M. Allam, T. Hu, L. Walter, K. Martin, K. Gandhi, S. Butler, R. Puri, A. McCleary-Wheeler, W. Tam, O. Elemento, K. Takata, C. Steidl, D. Scott, L. Fontan, H. Ueno, B. Cosgrove, G. Inghirami, A. García, A. F. Coskun, J. Koff, A. Melnick, and A. Singh, “Combinatorial Targeting of Aberrant Signaling Pathways in Lymphomas Rescues Lymphoid Tumor Microenvironment-mediated attenuation of MALT1 inhibitors,” Nature Materials, vol. 22, no. 511–523. 2023