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Musah Lab undergraduate researcher Carmen Miller has been accepted into the 2023 Amgen Summer Research Program at Columbia University.

Congratulations, Carmen!

Four Musah Lab Master's Students Simultaneously Win the Duke Biomedical Engineering Research Award

Congratulations to Carolyn Du, Ayushi Sharma, Kaitlyn Stephens, and Lokesh Sirkali Suresh Kumar on receiving the Duke BME Master's Student Research Fellowship to support their independent research studies in our lab. Lokesh was awarded $2000, and...

Amanda, Rohan, and Yasmin receive travel awards to attend and present their research findings at the 2023 Podocyte, ISSCR, and GRC conferences

Amanda Barreto and Rohan Bhattacharya were awarded the Duke BME travel awards, and Yasmin Roye was awarded the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship. Amanda with attend and present her work in both the early...

Musah Lab Members Shine with Multiple Prestigious Scholarships and Awards!

We are thrilled to announce the remarkable achievements of Musah Lab members in the first quarter of 2023. Jessica Shah and Kiarra Richardson have been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, while Adi Raj has secured a full...

A novel stem cell differentiation method developed by Samira Musah is licensed to two biotech companies, STEMCELL Technologies and Emulate Bio

Original publications and patent 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...

A new publication from our research group describes technologies poised to break the in vitro impasse and advance drug discovery for human diseases

  A new publication from our research group describes technologies poised to break the in vitro impasse and advance drug discovery for human diseases

Titilola (Lola) Kalejaiye awarded Keystone Symposia Scholarship for her work on stem cell-derived kidney organoids

Congratulations to Lola on winning the Keystone Symposia Scholarship to attend the joint Keystone Symposia Meeting on Stem Cells & Organoid Models of Development and Disease. Lola's abstract was selected for oral and poster presentations at the...

Rising in 2023! Our work highlighted in the Top 10 Stories from 2022

COVID-19 can infect and damage human kidney cells

Our work on human stem cell-derived disease models featured on the cover of ACS Chemical Biology!

Related publication: Adriamycin-Induced Podocyte Injury Disrupts the YAP-TEAD1 Axis and Downregulates Cyr61 and CTGF Expression | ACS Chemical Biology Image credit: Morgan Burt, PhD student in the Musah Lab (*Morgan Burt, Ph.D. as of Dec. 16th, 2022)

Morgan Burt successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Burt!

Wow, she did it! We are very excited to announce that the very first graduate student in the Musah Lab has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Morgan Burt!

Fun times at the 2022 Duke BME Holiday Party

Thank you, Duke BME and Duke Engineering, for a fantastic holiday party! We managed to take a group photo away from our dining seats. Of course, we finished the food before capturing these fun photobooth pictures:-). Happy holidays from all of us!

Rohan Bhattacharya presents at the 2022 Cell Symposia on Advances in Therapeutic Applications of Stem Cells

Congratulations to Rohan Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate in Duke BME, on his excellent presentation at the 2022 Cell Symposia on Advances in Therapeutic Applications of Stem Cells! Rohan discussed his PhD dissertation studies on the role of SMAD2 genetic...

A new publication from our research group highlights strategies for translating kidney organoids into artificial organs

This new paper from our research group highlights strategies for translating kidney organoids into artificial organs. Congratulations to Titilola Kalejaiye (postdoctoral fellow) and Amanda Barreto (PhD student) on putting together this paper for the...

Alek Mishra accepted into the Duke Global Health Summer Institute program & the Pratt Research Fellowship program at Duke University

In addition to his recent acceptance to the Duke Global Health Summer Institute program, Alek Mishra has been accepted into the Pratt Research Fellowship program at Duke University. The Pratt Research Fellowship Program provides opportunities for...

Briana Simms, postdoc in the Segura Lab at Duke University, gave an excellent chalk talk at the Musah Lab

Brianna presented on October 27th, 2022, in preparation for her future faculty job interviews. Her work is at the intersection of chemistry, tissue engineering, and biomaterials.