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Samira Musah give an invited research seminar at UCLA Bioengineering Department

Musah presented at UCLA Department of Bioengineering seminar series for first-year undergraduate students, with focus on using engineering concepts to guide stem cell biology and model organ function and disease processes

Samira Musah gives an invited research seminar at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC Irvine

Samira Musah gives an invited research seminar at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC Irvine

Samira Musah gives an invited research talk at Tufts University's Department of Biomedical Engineering

Samira Musah discusses the lab's research progress on merging stem cell biology and microphysiological systems to understand human tissue development and disease mechanisms.

Morgan successfully defends her preliminary thesis!

Congratulations, Morgan!!!

Xingrui Mou awarded IFER Graduate Fellowship

Congratulations to Xingrui "George" Mou on winning a Graduate Fellowship from the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) for his work on engineering artificial kidney devices.  

Exploring COVID-19’s Impact on the Kidney (Feature in Duke BME Magazine)

By guiding stem cells to model kidney cells, Duke BME’s Samira Musah is studying how the novel coronavirus can damage the important organs Full article: https://bme.duke.edu/about/news/magazine/2020/exploring-covid-19-impact-...

Samira Musah to give an invited research seminar at Tissue Talks, a webinar series hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic at Columbia University

https://www.bme.columbia.edu/tissue-talks-weekly-webinar-series-hosted-… TISSUE TALKS: Weekly Webinar Series hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

We have a new group photo, style due to COVID-19 pandemic

We have a new group photo, style due to COVID-19 pandemic

Samira Musah to give an invited talk at the 2020 Development Meeting "From Stem Cells to Human Development."

This meeting brings together researchers working on a diverse set of questions – from early cell fate choices in the human embryo to tissue organogenesis, from genomics and epigenomics to the evolution of human traits. Despite this breadth of interests...

Samira Musah gives an invited talk at Duke Medicine Grand Rounds 'Becoming Blue' series

Samira Musah gives an invited talk at Duke Medicine Grand Rounds 'Becoming Blue' series

"The more people we have with appropriate intervention skills, the better we can build academic communities that have fewer bias and harassment incidents." Says Samira Musah in a Cell Systems (Cell Press) article.

"The more people we have with appropriate intervention skills, the better we can build academic communities that have fewer bias and harassment incidents." Says Samira Musah in a Cell Systems (Cell Press) article.

Samira Musah to serve as Faculty Panelist for the Organoids & Organs-on-Chips Trainee Symposium at Columbia University

The Organoids & Organs-on-Chips Trainee Symposium at Columbia University is a 1-day symposium for Organoids & Organs-on-Chip model systems, to be held via Zoom on August 11, 2020. The symposium (open/free to all) is for trainees, by trainees,...

Arinze Okafor awarded The Morton H. Friedman Fellowship from the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to Arinze Okafor on being awarded The Morton H. Friedman Fellowship, a second-year graduate research fellowship from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke. Congratulations, Arinze!

Rohan awarded Lew’s Pre-doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)

Congratulations to Rohan Bhattacharya on being awarded the Lew Pre-doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering. Congratulations and well-deserved, Rohan!

Lab awarded core facility grant to support work on biomarkers of human kidney disease

Our lab has been awarded Duke University Core Facility Vouchers to support our work on the discovery of biomarkers for human kidney disease. This include funds for the Sequencing and Genomics Technologies Core Facility and the Proteomics and...