News
Our collaboration with the Bellan lab has produced two new manuscripts, one on the function of iPSC-derived BMECs in perfused 3D hydrogel channels and another on patterning stem cell differentiation in hydrogels via morphogen gradients. Great job everyone!
https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(19)30011-6
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/bm/c8bm01199k#!divAbstract
Ethan is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award from CMI/BMMB! This award will support Allison’s project on determining the influence of substrate stiffness on blood-brain barrier function/dysfunction in vitro and in vivo. We appreciate the support!
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1846860&HistoricalAwards=false
Ethan has received one of the inaugural Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Neurodegeneration Challenge Network. Details can be found below:
http://go.chanzuckerberg.com/e/617541/ding-alzheimers-and-parkinsons/2vvv/19365033
We are pleased to welcome Everett Allchin as a graduate student and (belatedly) Riley Knight as an undergraduate research assistant!
Ethan chaired a session while Jonah gave an excellent talk. A large amount of meat and potatoes was also consumed!
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