Publications & Patents

Journal & Book Covers

Journal Articles

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• Amanda Barreto, Morgan A. Burt, Samira Musah*, "Advancing drug discovery with stem cell-derived kidney disease models", Trends In Pharmaceutical Sciences - Cell Press, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tips.2022.12.001
• Titilola D. kalejaiye, Amanda D. Barreto, Samira Musah*, “Translating organoids into artificial kidneys,” Current Transplantation Report - Springer Nature, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40472-022-00383-0
• Yasmin Roye, Samira Musah*, "Isogenic kidney glomerulus chip engineered from human iPS cells", JoVE, 2022, DOI:10.3791/63821
• Jennifer Cable, Matthias P. Lutolf, Jianping Fu, Sunghee Estelle Park, Athanasia Apostolou, Shuibing Chen, Cheng Song, Jason R. Spence, Prisca Liberali, Madeline Lancaster, Anna Meier, Nicole Min Qian Pek, James M. Wells, Meghan M. Capeling, Ana Uzquiano, Samira Musah, Meritxell Huch, Mina Gouti, Pleun Hombrink, Giorgia Quadrato, Jean-Paul Urenda, "Organoids as tools for fundamental discovery and translation—a Keystone Symposia report," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14874
• Xingrui Mou, Jessica Shah, Rohan Bhattacharya, Titilola D. Kalejaiye, Bowen Sun, Po-Chun Hsu, Samira Musah*, “A biomimetic electrospun membrane supports the differentiation and maturation of kidney epithelium from human stem cells,” Bioengineering, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9050188

• Titilola D. Kalejaiye, Rohan Bhattacharya, Tatiana Travieso, Arinze E. Okafor, Morgan A. Burt, Xingrui Mou, Maria Blasi, Samira Musah*, “SARS-CoV-2 Employ BSG/CD147 and ACE2 Receptors to Directly Infect Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Podocytes”, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022, DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.855340,

• Makenzie G. Bonner, Hemanth Gudapati, Xingrui Mou, Samira Musah*, "Microfluidic systems for modeling human development". Development, 2022, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199463
• Morgan A. Burt, Titilola D. Kalejaiye, Rohan Bhattacharya,Nikolaos Dimitrakakis, Samira Musah*, "Adriamycin-induced podocyte injury disrupts the YAP-TEAD1 axis and downregulates Cyr61 and CTGF expression", ACS Chemical Biology, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00678
• Yasmin Roye, Rohan Bhattacharya, Xingrui Mou, Yuhao Zhou, Morgan Burt, and Samira Musah*, “A Personalized Glomerulus Chip Engineered from Stem Cell-derived Epithelium and Vascular Endothelium”, Micromachines, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080967

• Samira Musah*, “Uncovering SARS-CoV-2 Kidney Tropism,” Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-021-00370-w

• Rohan Bhattacharya, Makenzie G. Bonner, Samira Musah*, “Harnessing developmental plasticity to pattern kidney organoids,” Cell Stem Cell, 2021, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2021.03.009

• Samira Musah*, “Early-career researchers in the time of COVID-19: Adapting to uncertainty”, Cell Stem Cell, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2021.04.024

• Samira Musah*, “Human disease models & therapeutics: Introductions to the community, early-career researchers in the time of COVID-19”, Cell Stem Cell, 2020, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2020.07.016

• Samira Musah*, “Support and Accountability: What needs to change in academic science to increase the number of Black scientists and engineers?”, Cell Systems, 2020, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2020.06.014

• Morgan Burt, Rohan Bhattacharya, Arinze E. Okafor, Samira Musah*, “Guided differentiation of mature kidney podocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells under chemically defined conditions, JoVE, DOI: 10.3791/61299. 2020; https://www.jove.com/video/61299/guided-differentiation-mature-kidney-podocytes-from-human-induced
  

• Samira Musah*, "Building an Artificial Kidney from Human Stem Cells," Atlas of Science, 2019; https://atlasofscience.org/building-an-artificial-kidney-from-human-stem-cells/

• Samira Musah, Nikolaos Dimitrakakis, Diogo M. Camacho, George M. Church, Donald E. Ingber, “Directed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature kidney podocytes and establishment of a Glomerulus Chip,” Nature Protocols,  DOI: 10.1038/s41596-018-0007-8, 2018

• Samira Musah, Akiko Mammoto, Thomas C. Ferrante, Sauveur S. F. Jeanty, Mariko Hirano-Kobayashi, Tadanori Mammoto, Kristen Roberts, Seyoon Chung, Richard Novak, Miles Ingram, Tohid Fatanat-Didar, Sandeep Koshy, James C. Weaver, George M. Church, Donald E. Ingber, “Mature induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived human podocytes reconstitute kidney glomerular-capillary-wall function on a chip,” Nature Biomedical Engineering, DOI:10.1038/s41551-017-0069, 2017

• Kambez H. Benam, Stephanie Dauth, Bryan Hussell, Anna Herland, Abhishek Jain, Kyung-Jin Jang, Katia Karalis, Hyun Jung Kim, Luke MacQueen, Roza Mahmoodian, Samira Musah, Yu-suke Torisawa, Andries D. van der Meer, Remi Villenave, Moran Yadid, Kevin K. Parker, and Donald E. Ingber, “Engineered In Vitro Disease Models,” Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanism of Disease, DOI:10.1146/annurev-pathol-012414-040418, 2015

• Samira Musah, Paul J. Wrighton, Yefim Zaltsman, Xiaofen Zhong, Stefan Zorn, Mathew B. Parlato, Cheston Hsiano, Sean P. Palecek, Qiang Chang, William L. Murphy and Laura L. Kiessling, “Substratum-Induced Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveals the Coactivator YAP is a Potent Regulator of Neuronal Specification,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415330111, 2014

• Samira Musah, Stephen Morin, Paul J. Wrighton, Daniel B. Zwick, Song Jin and Laura Kiessling, “Glycosaminoglycan-Binding Hydrogels  Enable Mechanical Control of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Self-Renewal,” ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/nn3039148,2012

• Ratmir Derda, Samira Musah, Brendan P. Orner, Joseph Klim, Lingyin Li and Laura L. Kiessling, “ High-throughput Discovery of Synthetic Surfaces that Support Proliferation of Pluripotent Cells,”  Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI:10.1021/ja906089g, 2010

• Samuel N. Kikandi, Samira Musah, Kyoungyu Lee, John Hassani, Shawn Rajan, Ailing Zhou and Omowunmi A. Sadik, “Comparative Studies of Quercetin Interactions with Monophosphate Nucleotides using UV-Vis Spectroscopy and Electrochemical Techniques,” Electroanalysis, DOI: 10.1002/elan.200703954, 2007

Books/Book Chapters

• Arinze E. Okafor, Rohan Bhattacharya, Samira Musah* 2021. “Models of Kidney Glomerulus Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” in Alexander Birbrair (Ed). Advances in Stem Cell Biology. Elsevier. iPSCs in Tissue Engineering - 1st Edition (elsevier.com)
• Titilola Kalejaiye, Jordan Holmes, Rohan Bhattacharya, Samira Musah* 2021. "Reconstitution of the Human Kidney Glomerular Capillary Wall" in Michael S. Goligorsky (Ed). Regenerative Nephrology, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. Regenerative Nephrology - 2nd Edition (elsevier.com)

Preprints

• Titilola D. Kalejaiye, Rohan Bhattacharya, Morgan A. Burt, Tatianna Travieso, Arinze E. Okafor, Xingrui Mou, Maria Blasi, Samira Musah*, "BSG/CD147 and ACE2 receptors facilitate SARS-CoV-2 infection of human iPS cell-derived kidney podocytes", bioRxiv, 2021

Patents

• Samira Musah and Donald E. Ingber. (2021) Derivation of Mature and Functional Kidney Podocytes from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. U.S. Patent No. 11,083,754 B2. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=11083754

Blog Posts & Media

• Transitions in development – an interview with Samira Musah. Development, 2023

• Undergraduate research experiences led Samira Musah to a career in the lab, BingUNews, 2023

• Targets for Infection: How SARS-CoV-2 Damages the Kidneys, Forbes, 2022

• A Dynamic Duo: How ACE-2 And CD147 Mediate Covid-19 Infection In The Kidneys, Forbes, 2022

• 5 Questions with Samira Musah, Duke Innovation and Entrepeneurship Initiative, 2021

• Modeling the Kidney, ThinkResearch Podcast by Harvard Catalyst, 2021
• Ep. 183: “Glomerulus-on-a-Chip” Featuring Dr. Samira Musah, The Stem Cell Podcast, 2020

• Samira Musah*, “Instructing stem cells to help form a human kidney glomerulus-on-a-chip”, Nature Research Bioengineering Community, 2017

• Faces of Physics: human organ on a chip, Physics Word, 2017