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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...

Recent work from our lab is published as part of the ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Special Edition!

We discovered that the YAP-TEAD1 signaling axis is disrupted when human stem cell-derived podocytes experience biomechanical injury. These results highlight CTGF and Cyr61 as potential therapeutic targets/biomarkers for patient stratification, which...

Yasmin Roye gives an invited research talk at the North American Vascular Biology Organization's 2022 symposium on "Organoids, Organs-on-chips, and Vasculature"

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Yasmin Roye for being invited to give a research talk at the North American Vascular Biology Organization's 2022 symposium on "Organoids, Organs-on-chips, and Vasculature." Yasmin was one of three invited speakers in the...

PhD students Rohan and Makenzie gave poster presentations at the 2022 CBTE Symposium

Rohan and Makenzie are both awardees of CBTE's NIH T32/Lew's pre-doctoral fellowship

DSCB graduate fellow Makenzie Bonner successfully defends her prelim!

Congratulations to Makenzie for passing 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. Congratulations again,...

Yuhao Zhou Among Seven BME Students Who Earned the Dean's Research Awards for Master's Students

Full article: Dean's Research Awards for Master's Students 2021-22 | Duke Graduate School The Duke Graduate School's Dean's Research Awards for Master's Students provides up to $1,000 to fund the purchase of materials and supplies to support research...

Xingrui (George) Mou Wins Inaugural Pratt Outstanding Research Mentor Award

The Pratt Outstanding Research Mentor Award was recently created to acknowledge outstanding PhD students mentoring undergraduates. These mentors guide students with patience, diligence and accessibliity, provide support and expectations toward...

Master’s Student, Yuhao Zhou, wins Dean’s Research Award

  Yuhao Zhou is a second-year master’s student at Duke University working in Musah Lab, led by Samira Musah, PhD, assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering, medicine and cell biology, and an investigator for Duke MEDx. Recently,...

Our new research paper on COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 infection of kidney cells is now available on bioRxiv!

    In this work, we show that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect kidney glomerular podocytes through multiple receptors, including ACE2 and BSG/CD147, and cause cellular changes associated with podocytopathies such as collapsing glomerulopathy observed in...

MEDx news highlight: Jessica Shah of Musah Lab selected as Pratt Research Fellow

  Jessica Shah of Musah Lab selected as Pratt Research Fellow | MEDx (duke.edu)

Jessica Shah selected to perform undergraduate research as a Pratt Research Fellow!

Jessica Shah selected to perform undergraduate research as a Pratt Research Fellow! Congratulations to Musah Lab undergraduate researcher Jessica Shah -- she has been selected to participate in the Pratt Research Fellows program starting Spring 2022!...

MEDx investigator, Samira Musah, speaks at UCI Samueli School of Engineering

MEDx investigator, Samira Musah, speaks at UCI Samueli School of Engineering

Yuhao awarded the Dean's Research Fellowship for Master's Students!

Congratulations to Yuhao Zhou for receiving the 2021-2022 Dean's Research Award for Master's Students from the Graduate School of Duke University. The award provides a supplemental stipend of $1000.   Congratulations again, Yuhao!