We had a great time in Wurzburg, Germany!
Nick graduates and new lab members arrive!
Nick successfully defended his master’s thesis and leaves to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot in the United States Navy. Good luck Nick!
We are also pleased to welcome Alex Sorets and Madison Stiefbold to the group! Alex is a first year graduate student in BME who will be co-advised with Craig Duvall. Madison joins us as a research associate to support a wide variety of activities.
Brian joins the group!
We are pleased to officially welcome Brian O’Grady as a postdoc. Brian earned his PhD at Vanderbilt working with our collaborator, Dr. Leon Bellan. We are excited to have him slot onto some of our neural tissue engineering projects!
New manuscript published
Our work on creating a simplified differentiation procedure for producing BBB endothelial cells from iPSCs was published today in Stem Cell Reports. Check it out here:
https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(19)30175-4
New undergrads for the summer!
Derek Lee from Vanderbilt has officially joined the lab and will be working with Allison to investigate neurovascular mechanobiology. In addition, Kara Poole from Trinity University has returned as part of the VUSE summer research program. Welcome!