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Rohan's abstract selected for an oral presentation at the 2022 Triangle Regeneration Biology Symposium

Rohan is a 4th-year Ph.D. student in the lab leading two independent research projects. He was an awardee of the Lew's Pre-doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering at Duke University. In this presentation, he will share...

Jessica Shah and Amanda Barreto present their work from the Musah Lab at BMES 2022

Jessica Shah and Amanda Barreto present their work from the Musah Lab at BMES 2022

Forbes magazine highlights our work on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease

Forbes magazine highlights our work on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease

Duke Broadband highlights our work showing how SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease damage kidney tissues

Duke Broadband highlights our work showing how SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease damage kidney tissues

Our protocol article and video describing a method for engineering isogenic kidney glomerulus chips from human stem cells have been published in JoVE

Link to the full article and video: Isogenic Kidney Glomerulus Chip Engineered from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (jove.com)  

Yasmin Roye successfully defends her prelim!

Yasmin Roye (BME PhD student and Duke-Sloan Scholar) successfully defended her prelim, officially becomes a PhD candidate at Duke BME! Congratulations, Yasmin!

Undergraduate student Karen Song heading to Harvard University for graduate school!

Congratulations to Karen Song (an undergraduate researcher from our lab) on winning admissions to nearly every school to which she applied! Karen will start her Ph.D. program this Fall at Harvard University. We are so proud of her and look forward to...

Amanda Barreto and Kiarra Richardson give poster presentations at the Duke BioCoRE research sympossium

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

Musah Lab undergraduate researchers meet at the 2022 AMGEN Scholars US Symposium

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...

A new publication from our lab reveals an electrospun membrane that supports adhesion and differentiation of stem cell-derived kidney epithelial cells

This study demonstrates for the first time that electrospun silk fibroin membrane can serve as a supportive biocompatible platform for human podocyte differentiation and propagation. We anticipate that the results of this study will pave the way for the...

A new publication from our lab reveals how the virus associated with COVID-19 disease infects and damages human kidney cells

Led by postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Titilola Kalejaiye, we revealed how the virus associated with COVID-19 disease infects human kidney cells. Many thanks to my wonderful colleague and collaborator, Dr. Maria Blasi, for her contributions to this exciting...

Our primer article on the application of microfluidic platforms for modeling human organ development is published in the journal Development

Congratulations to co-authors Makenzie, Hemanth, and Xingrui (George) on their contributions! Full article available at: Microfluidic systems for modeling human development | Development | The Company of Biologists    

A news highlight of our work on the discovery of genetic targets that could provide new strategies to save kidney tissues from destruction

  Full research article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acschembio.1c00678

Amgen Scholar & UC Berkeley undergrad Miguel Flores Garcia joins the lab!

Miguel joins our research group as an Amgen Summer Undergraduate Research Scholar. Miguel is also an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Bioengineering. Welcome, Miguel! Learn more about Miguel at https://musahlab...

George Mou (BME PhD student and IFER fellow) successfully defended his prelim!

George initially joined the Musah Lab as a Master's Student in BME. After completing his Master's degree, he continued his work as a PhD student with the group. Congratulations, George! Our team is thrilled to celebrate George's successful prelim defense...