Jonathan Soucy is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he leads the Neural Engineering for Restoring Vision (NERV) Lab. His research focuses on understanding how neural circuits between the eye and brain are established, disrupted by disease, and rebuilt through regeneration. His lab combines stem cell engineering, neuroengineering, and electrophysiology to develop human stem cell-derived and ex vivo models of the visual system, with a particular focus on retinal ganglion cell transplantation and functional circuit reconstruction.
Dr. Soucy earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University, where he developed organ-on-chip models of the peripheral nervous system and biomaterials for nerve repair. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, where he studied retinal ganglion cell differentiation and transplantation.