Happy holidays from the Han Lab! Celebrating a year of small wins, big milestones, and everything in between. Grateful for this team and looking ahead to the year to come.

I am excited and honored to share my promotion to Associate Professor.

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Excited to share our new publication on mRNA-lipid nanoparticles for muscle regeneration! 💪🏼 Grateful for the guidance and teamwork that brought this project to life. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our lab’s work is now published in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Journal, appearing in the 2025 Young Innovators Issue. I am excited to share it! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the Han Lab, we celebrate every win, big or small, and this season has given us plenty to appreciate. 🧵

Intramuscular adipose tissue restricts functional muscle recovery www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Considerations of working with human primary muscle cells - happy to have contributed to this important topic. Thank you Tom Francis and Steve Harridge for inviting me and Casper Soendenbroe to join you! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Excited to announce I just posted a new preLight showcasing the work of @thegaaa.bsky.social in the lab of @thewooj.bsky.social on the effects of 3D confinement on muscle stem cell proliferation and differentiation using an asymmetric hydrogel bilayer model. Check out the post and their paper below:

Thrilled to share that our work is featured on the Back Cover of Advanced Biology! This 3D confocal image by GaYoung Park @thegaaa.bsky.social captures muscle stem cells confined between two hydrogel layers with distinct properties. Read more here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SFB2025 was an absolute blast and leaving with more energy and inspiration than I came with. Great people, cutting-edge science, and just a fantastic community. Loved meeting new folks and catching up with old friends. Photo 🧵 below 👇 1/n.

Happening Sat 8:30AM! 👇

Happening Sat 8AM! 👇

Happening today! 👇

Happening today! 👇

Han Lab is headed to #SFB2025 in Chicago! Catch us sharing our latest on muscle mechanobiology and bioengineering 🧫💪 @thesoor.bsky.social @thegaaa.bsky.social @thechaar.bsky.social @thelaar.bsky.social @thejooosh.bsky.social

It was a great experience to hear all the great work condensed into 3 minutes and an honor to win the People's Choice Award at the ISMMS 3-Minute Thesis Competition!

I had such an enriching experience at NEBEC these past two days with my lab! Congrats to @thesoor.bsky.social and @thechaar.bsky.social on Best Poster Awards, as well as my PI @thewooj.bsky.social on the Emerging Investigator Award. Really inspiring stuff!

Today’s a special day. Huge congratulations to my MD/PhD student Soore @thesoor.bsky.social and undergraduate student Charlene @thechaar.bsky.social for winning Best Poster Presentation at NEBEC 2025. Proud doesn’t even begin to cover it. Grateful every day to work with such sharp, dedicated team.

#ProudPI 💪

In their Review, Laura Faure, Valeria Venturini @valeriaventurini.bsky.social and Pere Roca-Cusachs discuss the biological contexts of cell mechanical compression, the associated mechanisms and the experimental systems engineered to compress cells in vitro. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

My group plotted a Bluesky ambush this week. They all joined at once—with handles mimicking “thewooj.” 😂💀 Follow the chaos (and our science!): @thejooosh.bsky.social @thesoor.bsky.social @thehaan.bsky.social @thelaar.bsky.social @thechaar.bsky.social @themiiche.bsky.social @thegaaa.bsky.social

Proud to share the first paper from Han Lab! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Happy to share our review on methodology for measuring and manipulating mechanical forces with specific focus on developmental biology! Congrats to authors @clemvilleneuve.bsky.social @mccreery.bsky.social and hats off to the community for developing awesome tools www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest paper is now published in Adv Biol. In this work, we explored how 3-dimensional confinement regulates muscle stem cell fate and function. Great & fun collab with @mourkiotilab.bsky.social! #myoblue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Resharing this list for those who joined Bsk more recently! #myoblue

Excited to share this new collaborative #EmboMolMed work from my lab #ChildrensAL & Jim Dowling labs. Work highlights efforts to generate a new animal model for X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (XMEA) and perform corrective drug screening. 1/n tinyurl.com/ym7svnwm

NYCBEC March ‘25 ed: commiserating & strategizing @ricardo-ca.bsky.social @irenedelazaro.bsky.social @santicorreaphd.bsky.social

Late to the party… start me up, my Bleeps!

Good morning #MyoBlue 🧪 In the midst of all this chaos, we want to stay positive and continue to do what we love the most! We are hiring a technician to help with ongoing satellite cell and muscle projects. Please repost large and wide Interested folks can apply here, enquiries to me are welcome

Here’s my take on milk clarified Empress negroni to celebrate surviving and getting through a long week 🥃

Deleted my Twitter/X account, finally.

This week is a special one. Celebrating my birthday with the best lab/team & students I could ask for & had the honor and privilege hosting prof Heungsoo Shin in NYC at Sinai/Columbia with @ricardo-ca.bsky.social

Big #RegenerativeMedicine advance! New study demonstrates the use of iPSC-heart muscle to treat a patient with heart failure. The patches successfully engrafted, contributing to heart repair. Patient survived 3 months before receiving a heart transplant www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our lab is looking to add a postdoc to our team investigating skeletal muscle function after injury, applicants with expertise in physiology and imaging very welcome! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/364... Reach out with any questions

Submit your research to a special issue in Biomedical Materials Research Part A (JBMR-A) called "Biomaterials for Women's Health" - super excited to guest edit with Jessica Weaver and working with Kent Leach to put together an exciting issue! 🧪 Learn more and submit your article: lnkd.in/gZRm8Zhs

New #NPJRegenMed paper: Myoblast-derived ADAMTS-like 2 promotes skeletal muscle regeneration after injury. #MyoBlue tinyurl.com/ywrhzv79

Happy holidays from Mount Sinai ORL! 🎅🌲

Happy holidays! ❄️ The 2nd annual Han Lab cook-off was a huge success and fun. Everyone brought their A-game! Yes, we now have a plaque with the winner’s names engraved…

❄️ NYCBEC December edition ❄️

I noticed there wasn’t a starter pack for skeletal muscle scientists, so I made one as the muscle community continues to migrate here. Drop a comment if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/3hKK1WX

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) launched the joint Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM). Applications are now open for our inaugural PhD in Health Science Engineering. Apply by January 1, 2025! cepmresearch.org/academic-pro...

I didn’t see a general starter pack for people in the #BME and #BioE communities so I started to put one together. Let me know if I’ve missed anyone in particular or if you’d like to be added! #ScienceSky #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/9nMCGLK

🤩How does exercise keep us strong? Led by Casper Soendenbroe, motor neurons are better supported by muscle stem cells and fibroblasts from life long exercisers v inactive ppl🏃 #keepmoving 🙏 @benchazaud.bsky.social #TeamLyon 🙏 @lundbeckfonden @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/acel...

Great day at the annual musculoskeletal research symposium at Montefiore/Einstein SOM. Lab photo with the best team. Super excited for our MS student Larion getting a young investigator award!

A new #harleylab preprint. Work by Dr. Chia-Wen Chang that adapts one of our biomaterial systems to look at microglia activity in the context of brain cancer. Funded by #NIH/NCI

We have a very basic starter pack!! If you work on 3D biology and organoids broadly defined and want to be included, leave a comment below go.bsky.app/QeDg2YD

@thewooj.bsky.social came to Columbia this week to share his amazing research during our new musculoskeletal talks series! Terrific learning about your biomaterials to improve muscle regeneration, hope you enjoyed seeing the uptown campus

The Biomaterials Starter Pack is continuing to grow - please share with your colleagues! Self-nominate yourself to the list, we're looking for anyone working or researching within the broad scope of biomaterials either in academia or industry. go.bsky.app/DymaVAp

Here’s our latest research! How do 3D mechanical cues shape muscle stem cells (MuSCs) in regeneration? We took a deep dive into this question in our latest work: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...