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July 1, 2025

CBTE Announces 2025-2026 Seminar Series Featuring World-Class Speakers

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June 18, 2025

Musah Lab PhD Student Hamidreza Arzaghi Awarded Prestigious 2025 Lew’s Pre-doctoral Fellowship

The Musah Lab is delighted to announce that PhD student Hamidreza Arzaghi has been awarded the 2025 Lew’s Pre-doctoral Fellowship by the Center for Biomolecular & Tissue Engineering at Duke University.

June 13, 2025

Best poster and conference travel awards go to Amanda Barreto at the 2025 International Podocyte Conference in Hamburg, Germany

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June 10, 2025

Yasmin Roye gives an oral presentation at the 2025 International Podocyte Conference in Germany

May 28, 2025

Monique Armelle Dacanay joins the Musah Lab as a Pratt-NCCU Summer Research Scholar in Biomedical Engineering!

We are excited to welcome Monique Armelle Dacanay to the Musah Lab as a Pratt-NCCU Summer Research Scholar in Biomedical Engineering! Monique recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from North Carolina Central University with a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences and a Minor in Spanish (Class of 2025).…

May 20, 2025

Congratulations to Alek Mishra on his Graduation with Honors and Departmental Distinction

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May 3, 2025

Yasmin Roye successfully defended her dissertation, becoming the 4th PhD student to graduate from the Musah Lab

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April 13, 2025

Congratulations to Anavi Kaul on her dual presentations at the 2025 National Undergraduate Research Conference at Brown University

Congratulations to Anavi Kaul, an undergraduate researcher in the Musah Lab at Duke University, on the acceptance of her abstract and selection for both a poster and oral presentation at the 2025 National Undergrad

March 14, 2025

Dr. Samira Musah named the Alfred M. Hunt Faculty Scholar Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke

The named professorship, Alfred M. Hunt Faculty Scholar Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, honors and recognizes Dr. Samira Musah's outstanding achievements in engineering and impact at Duke University.

February 14, 2025

Dr. Samira Musah invited as a distinguished speaker at the Annual Stem Cell Symposium hosted by the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

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January 22, 2025

Duke Dean's Graduate Fellow & Pathology PhD Student, Wiljeen Paul, joins the lab!

We are excited to welcome Wiljeen Paul to our research group! Wiljeen is a rotation PhD student in the Duke Pathology Program and an awardee of the prestigious Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship at Duke University.

December 19, 2024

TEDx talk by the inspiring Musah Lab undergraduate researcher and recent Duke University graduate, Sophia Leeman!

Check out this new TEDx talk by an inspiring Musah Lab undergraduate researcher and recent Duke University graduate, Sophia Leeman!

December 18, 2024

Our latest review article delves into the role of epigenetic markers and mechanisms in hypertensive nephropathy, a major contributor to chronic kidney disease, organ failure, and rising healthcare costs

The final publication from #MusahLab for 2024 is out and open access! Our latest review article delves into the role of epigenetic markers and mechanisms in hypertensive nephropathy, a major contributor to chronic kidney disease, organ failure, and rising healthcare costs.

December 8, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Xingrui Mou on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming the 3rd PhD graduate from the Musah Lab!

Congratulations to Dr. Xingrui Mou from the Musah Lab on successfully defending his PhD thesis and becoming the 3rd PhD graduate from our lab! His groundbreaking work in vascularized microfluidic organ chip engineering and its application in patient-specific disease modeling has been…

November 15, 2024

Our new publication in Nature Methods highlights the potential of biomaterials in realizing the translational power of organoids

The newest publication from the #MusahLab is out in Nature Methods! In this article, we provide forward-looking ideas on harnessing the power of biomaterials to advance organoid research.