Excited to share this preprint from Postdoctoral Fellow and future Professor Mohammadjafar (MJ) Hashemi, who used defined alginate gels to develop an iPSC-cardiomyocyte biomanufacturing platform system!
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Finally, in elegant work led by PhD student Yasaman Kargar, we leveraged our new micro-engineered heart tissue models to study desmin-related cardiomyopathy. With key contributions from our collaborator Abhinav Diwan, MD, FACC, FAHA,
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In the second story, in a BioRxiv preprint led by PhD student alumnus Ghiska Ramahdita, we studied the impact of tensional anisotropy on fibroblast activation. We developed a second-generation version of Hydrogel Assisted STereolithographic Elastomer (HASTE) prototyping to create
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A little late, but excited to share three recent stories from the lab. In the first, co-led by lab alumnus Lavanya Aryan and PhD student Jennifer Esteves, we worked with co-senior author Stacey Rentschler, MD/PhD to study electrical conduction and calcium handling in micro-tissues fashioned either
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Congrats to our newest PhD graduate, Ghiska Ramahdita, who defended her PhD last week. Ghiska's work on tensional anisotropy sensing paved the way for some critical technical and scientific advances in the lab. Congrats Ghiska!
Congratulations to @sydneal123.bsky.social on publication of the main body of work from her PhD thesis, now out in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A! dx.doi.org/10.1002/jbm....
Enhancing the Potency of Growth Factor‐Mimicking Peptides via Cross‐Presentation With Integrin Ligands
Growth factors enhance survival and integration of transplanted Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC), but successful supplementation often requires supraphysiological growth factor doses, risking off-targ....
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Headed to SFB 2025 conference to see the latest work in our field. Excited for presentations from Ganesh Malayath, PhD, Yasaman Kargar Gaz Kooh and Huanzhu(Harper) Jiang from our lab.
Excited to share our latest work through our collaboration with Guy Genin, led by @faridalisafaei.bsky.social ! source.washu.edu/2025/03/the-...
The right moves to rein in fibrosis
Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.
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