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,

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

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

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....

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-...