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Virginia Bruno

“Human iPSCs and primary organoid-derived visceral pain-on-a-chip model to study Candida albicans pathogenesis in inflammatory bowel disease”

Eunho Choi

““Application of a human colon-on-a-chip for the validation of living therapeutics to replace and reduce animal testing””

Filipa Maria Ribeiro Soeiro de Carvalho

““Development of a novel in vitro model of the human female cervicovaginal region to investigate host-pathogen interactions””

Dowlette Alam El Din

““Exploring the impact of chronic low dose domoic acid exposure on brain development and cognitive functions in 3D brain organoids””

Alexis Feidler

“Using iPSCs to model the combined effects of aging and genetics on the human blood-brain barrier”

Cora Ferguson

“Engineering a hormonally tunable cartilage microphysiological system to investigate the role of estrogen in inflammatory cartilage degeneration”

Yuhao (Lauren) Gao

“Human Locus Coeruleus Organoids as a Human Cellular Model for Understanding Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis”

Zixie Liang

“Developing a Functional 3D-Bioprinted Human Cardiac Ventricle for In Situ Modeling of Cardiac Fibrosis and Animal-Free Drug Testing”

Lunan Liu

““Organoids-on-a-Chip Model: a Human Avatar for Patient-Specific Tumor Microenvironment Modeling and Immunotherapy Testing””

Lucy Luo

“Emergence of CXCL9+/CCL13+ monocyte-derived interstitial macrophages and CD8+ T cells leads to chronic dysfunction in lung transplant recipients”

Elizabeth Marr

“Elucidating the mechanisms of human fertility using an organoid model of implantation”

Eliska Rehurkova

““Stem Cell-Based Leydig Cell Models for Reprotoxicity Testing and Biomedicine Applications””

Nisan Sele

“Uncovering Mechanisms of Human Neuronal Maturation Through In Vitro and Ex Vivo Dissection of the Subplate”

Cheick Sissoko

“Microfluidic-based sensor-enabled Neurovascular unit for modeling Alzheimer’s Disease impact on the brain vasculature”

Mingzhi Xu

““An integrated microfluidic system with engineered blood vessel mimic and skeletal muscle to investigate the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis””

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