Research Interests
regenerative medicine, stem cells, biomaterials, hypoxia, blood vessels, physics of cancer
Selected Grants
iPediHeart: Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for Pediatric Heart Disease
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Targeting Stiffness-Enhanced Ferroptosis to Overcome Chemoresistance in UPS
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by The Paula Takacs Foundation For Sarcoma Research · 2026 - 2027Persistent Injury Activated EC in Fibrosis
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2026 - 2027Engineering three-dimensional perfusable microphysiological models of the human inner blood-retina barrier
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Eye Institute · 2024 - 2027Studying Oxidative Stress using a Small Artery In Vitro Model
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2025 - 2027University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 1994 - 2027Training Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2001 - 2027Creating non-human tended microphysiological systems (CHIPS)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Baylor College of Medicine · 2024 - 2027Impact of Extracellular Matrix Stiffening on Endothelial Cell Senescence
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2025 - 2026Oxygen controlled hydrogel to uncover cellular responses to rapid hypoxiaoxygen controlled hydrogel to uncover cellular responses to rapid hypoxia
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Johns Hopkins University · 2022 - 2025Artery-on-a-chip for preclinical evaluation of countermeasures against endothelial damage
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Trustees of Columbia University · 2024 - 2025High-resolution characterization of biologically relevant soft materials
EquipmentPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2024 - 2025Immune-endothelial cell dysfunction in radiation-induced atherosclerosis
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Heart Association · 2024 - 2024NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) - Translational Research Institute Using Human Stem-Cell Derived Vascular, Neural and Cardiac 3D Tissues to Determine Countermeasures for Radiation/RAD0102
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Baylor College of Medicine · 2022 - 2024External Relationships
- Johns Hopkins University
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