Gallery
December 11th, 2023 -- Group dinner at the Ruth's Chris Steak House - Durham.
December 2023 -- Duke BME Holiday Party!
December 11th 2023 -- Rohan Bhattacharya successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, becoming the 2nd Ph.D. graduate from the Musah Lab!
December 11th 2023 -- Rohan Bhattacharya successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, becoming the 2nd Ph.D. graduate from the Musah Lab! Pictured: Rohan and his thesis committee members.
October 3rd, 2023 -- Samira Musah named a recipient of the 2023 NIH Director's New Innovator Award!
July 28th, 2023 -- Research Team and Family Members attending Naya Lewis' Amgen Summer Research Scholars Poster Presentation at Duke University. Naya was co-mentored by Ph.D. students Rohan Bhattacharya and Amanda Barreto for her summer research in our lab focused on exploring therapeutic strategies for TRPC6 and diabetic podocytopathies using human stem cell-derived in vitro disease models.
July 28th, 2023 -- Research Team and Family Members attending Naya Lewis' Amgen Summer Research Scholars Poster Presentation at Duke University. Naya was co-mentored by Ph.D. students Rohan Bhattacharya and Amanda Barreto for her summer research in our lab focused on exploring therapeutic strategies for TRPC6 and diabetic podocytopathies using human stem cell-derived in vitro disease models.
July 26th, 2023 -- Team celebration of Amanda Barreto's successful preliminary exam. Congratulations, Amanda!
May 16th, 2023 -- Duke BME Department Retreat at Carolina Beach, NC. Photo of all attendees at the retreat.
May 16th, 2023 -- Duke BME Department Retreat at Carolina Beach, NC. Photo of all faculty only at the retreat.
May 16th, 2023 -- Duke BME Department Retreat at Carolina Beach, NC. Photo Musah Lab members at the retreat.
April 27th - May 3rd, 2023 -- Celebrating Jessica Shah's graduation and undergraduate reserch accomplishments, and send-off to graduate school at Harvard-MIT HST.
April 27th - May 3rd, 2023 -- Celebrating Jessica Shah's graduation and undergraduate reserch accomplishments, and send-off to graduate school at Harvard-MIT HST.
April 27th - May 3rd, 2023 -- Celebrating Jessica Shah's graduation and undergraduate reserch accomplishments, and send-off to graduate school at Harvard-MIT HST.
April 27th - May 3rd, 2023 -- Celebrating Jessica Shah's graduation and undergraduate research accomplishments, and send-off to graduate school at Harvard-MIT HST.
April 6th, 2023 -- Duke CBTE Symposium. Rohan Bhattacharya received the outstanding graduate student award & Amanda Barreto won the people's choice poster award!
April 6th, 2023 -- Duke CBTE Symposium. Rohan Bhattacharya received the outstanding graduate student award & Amanda Barreto won the people's choice poster award!
April 6th, 2023 -- Duke CBTE Symposium. Rohan Bhattacharya received the outstanding graduate student award & Amanda Barreto won the people's choice poster award!
December 22nd, 2022 -- Group lunch at Hawkers Asian Street Food Restaurant in Chapel Hill
December 16th, 2022 -- Lab members at Duke BME Holiday Party (following Morgan Burt's successful PhD dissertation defense)
December 16th, 2022 -- Morgan Burt successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Burt!
December 16th, 2022 -- Morgan Burt successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Burt!
December 16th, 2022 -- Morgan Burt successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Burt!
December 16th, 2022 -- Morgan Burt successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Burt!
September 16th, 2022 -- Group lunch at the Commons (Duke University Broadhead Center). Because our lab freezer is getting defrosted:-)
July 2022 -- Samira Musah and Rohan Bhattacharya represent our research group at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices
July 2022 -- Samira Musah and Rohan Bhattacharya represent our research group at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Signal Transduction by Engineered Extracellular Matrices
August 1st, 2022 -- JoVE video shoot for Yasmin Roye's accepted manuscript. Videographer, Dan Elghossain.
August 1st, 2022 -- JoVE video shoot for Yasmin Roye's accepted manuscript. Videographer, Dan Elghossain.
August 1st, 2022 -- JoVE video shoot for Yasmin Roye's accepted manuscript. Videographer, Dan Elghossain.
July 2022 -- Amanda Barreto and Kiarra Richardson give poster presentations at the Duke BioCoRE research sympossium. Lab members Miguel, Yasmin, and Lola join them at their posters.
July 2022 -- Amanda Barreto and Kiarra Richardson give poster presentations at the Duke BioCoRE research sympossium. Lab members Miguel, Yasmin, and Lola join them at their posters.
July 2022 -- Amanda Barreto and Kiarra Richardson give poster presentations at the Duke BioCoRE research sympossium. Lab members Miguel, Yasmin, and Lola join them at their posters.
July 2022 -- Amgen Summer Research Scholar Miguel A Flores Garcia (left) presents his reasearch poster at the Amgen program symposium at Duke. Lab members Amanda, Yasmin (Miguel's graduate mentor from our lab), Kiarra, and Lola attend his presentation.
July 2022 -- Amgen Summer Research Scholar Miguel A Flores Garcia (left) presents his reasearch poster at the Amgen program symposium at Duke. Lab members Amanda, Yasmin (Miguel's graduate mentor from our lab), Kiarra, and Lola attend his presentation.
July 2022 -- Group bowling event to bid Miguel farewell
July 2022 -- Group bowling event to bid Miguel farewell
July 2022 -- Miguel A Flores Garcia (left) is an AMGEN Summer Research Scholar in the lab and a current UC Berkeley undergraduate student; Jessica Shah (right) is a Duke University undergraduate student completing her AMGEN Summer research experience at UC Berkeley. Learn more about the AMGEN Scholars Program at Amgen Scholars – An Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Science and Biotechnology.
June 23rd, 2022 -- Yasmin Roye (BME PhD student and Duke-Sloan Scholar) successfully defended her prelim!
June 2022 -- Amgen Scholar Miguel Flores Garcia (from UC Berkeley) joins our research lab for the Summer. Miguel is working with Yasmin Roye (a PhD student in the lab) on a project focused on exploring decellularized matrices to ameliorate hyperglycemia-induced podocyte injury
May 17th, 2022 -- George Mou (BME PhD student and IFER fellow) successfully defended his prelim! Team celebrates over dinner at Shiki Sushi.
May 3rd, 2022 -- Group lunch at the Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill to celebrate and send Karen Song off to Harvard University for graduate school & Nalini Mehta to biotech Locus Biosciences.
April 2022 -- Rohan and Makenzie gave poster presentations at the CBTE Symposium
March 2022 -- Makenzie Bonner passed her preliminary exam! Makenzie is a graduate fellow in the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology program at Duke. She is also a CBTE fellow affiliated with the Department of Cell Biology.
March 2022 -- Makenzie Bonner passed her preliminary exam! Makenzie is a graduate fellow in the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology program at Duke. She is also a CBTE fellow affiliated with the Department of Cell Biology.
November 2021 -- Group lunch at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club
November 2021 -- Surprise party for Samira. Want to know more? Ask our lab members:-)
October 2021 -- Sophia Leeman presents her summer research at the Huang Fellows Poster Session at Duke University.
September 27th, 2021 -- Celebrating Rohan Bhattacharya's successful defense of his dissertation proposal/prelim
September 24th, 2021 -- Sophia Leeman (top right) and her twin sister perform in the 'Opera Unmasked' show at Duke University's Baldwin Auditorium. All the singers in the performance were fully vaccinated and tested for COVID before the show.
May 24th, 2021 -- Team outing at the Eno River Farm, Hillsborough, NC: Ice cream, strawberries, plants/flowers, local honey, group chat...on a very hot (and barely Summer) day!
Sophia (left) and her mother and twin sister place in the ground this beautiful purple plant Sophia picked during our research group's trip to the Eno River Farm. The plant was named ELISA, after the first experiment Sophia and Rohan performed together when she joined the lab.
April 20th, 2021 -- Ph.D. student Yasmin Roye (left) performs in a VY Duo at the Duke University Student Chamber Concert. Students in the Chamber Music Program perform an end of year concert. Groups performing on this concert: DUSQ (Duke University Saxophone Quartet), JAS Trio, KEC Trio, VIIP, VY Duo, ShostaCOVID, Dasani Trio, Subito, Impromptu Quartet, and Pyotr.
April 16th, 2021 -- Drs. Tatiana Segura and Samira Musah hanging out at the Duke Gardens, Durham, NC
March 30th, 2021 -- Group Photo (during COVID-19 pandemic amid vaccinations)
March 2021 -- Yasmin Roye, Rohan Bhattacharya, and Xingrui (George) Mou inspect their samples in the lab.
December 10th, 2020 -- Visiting our brand new lab space in The Wilkinson Building! Exciting!
November 12th, 2020 -- Morgan Burt successfully defends her preliminary thesis! Congratulations, Morgan!!!
September 22nd, 2020 -- Yasmin's (in green shirt) first in-person day in the lab as a new PhD student at Duke. Pictured during COVID-19 pandemic.
September 2020 -- Group Photo, virtual via Zoom meeting due to COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2020: Samira Musah gives research talk at the 2020 ISSCR Virtual Conference (during COVID-19 pandemic).
April 24th, 2020: Congratulations to Xingrui (George) Mou on his graduation with MS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University. He'll return this Fall 2020 to pursue his PhD in BME with our team! Not the way we hoped to celebrate this, but grateful that we were all healthy and safe enough to do so virtually amidst the COVID-19 situation and lockdown. Congratulations, George!
February 2020 -- Rohan, Samira, Morgan in the lab's newly renovated stem cell culture facility
January 2020, At Rohan's surprise birthday party
January 2020, LaunchBio's Larger Than Life Sciences event draws a packed room at The Chesterfield. Samira Musah participates as a panelist.
December 2019, Group Dine Around at M Sushi Durham, Celebrating Duke Incubation Fund Award
October 2019 -- Lab Tour of the New Engineering Building, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
October 2019 -- Lab Tour of the New Engineering Building, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
August 2019 -- Welcome dinner for Arinze and Rohan
July 2019
May 2019 -- Jingfang Liu joins the lab
April 2019
January 2019, Find Morgan Burt in this photo from the 2019 AIChE Rock Stars of Regenerative Engineering conference.
