Check out our new review on "Engineering complexity in human tissue models of #cancer," published now in Adv Drug Delivery Reviews Editors of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews & led by Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard w/ Elisa Cimetta, Naveed Tavakol, PhD, @pamgraney, @mariasamaritano, & #IlariaBaldassarri! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So excited to see this out in the wild! Check out the lab's latest #Organonachip work, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, featuring a modular multi-organ platform for maturing engineered tissues. HUGE congrats to Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, @DiogoTeles, Naveed Tavakol, PhD and the entire Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic team!!

Join the CSCI Trainee Council for coffee! This Friday morning at 9:30am. Feel free to just drop by for some caffeine or stay for a chat about summer students! Share your experiences, resources, and tips. PIs and all levels of trainees encouraged to attend! Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI)

Our lab is at #ISSCR2022 both in person & virtually, presenting posters tonight (#307 - cardiac tissue eng by Trevor R. Nash), Thursday (#507, STEM dissemination by Naveed Tavakol, PhD), & Friday (#527, organs-on-chip by Naveed Tavakol, PhD)... Columbia BME Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI)

Our lab is so excited to be at #TermisAM2022 in Toronto! Gordana will speak at the Women in TERM Luncheon today, Josephine Wu, PhD (B32) & Naveed Tavakol, PhD (B24) will present posters tonight, & Trevor R. Nash (C65) will present a poster tomorrow night!

Check out our latest "Career Conversations" podcast episode, featuring Dr. Tejal A. Desai, an academic leader and incoming Dean of Engineering at Brown University!

A big thank you to Prof. Dave Mooney from Wyss Institute Harvard SEAS for joining us for a fantastic at #TissueTalk this week! Missed the talk? Check out the recording, available on youtube for 2 weeks: bit.ly/bmetube

We recently spoke with Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic about their interconnected, multi-organ tissue chip, reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering. This development could allow researchers to better investigate diseases or treatments that affect multiple organs. nibib.nih.gov/news-events/ne… NCATS National Cancer Institute Columbia BME

Loved seeing pioneer sangeeta bhatia (same on bsky) give a shout out to her work in DEI today at Columbia BME Tissue Talks led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. Let's dig a bit more deeply into her slide...

So excited to be heading to #BMES2022 tomorrow!! Quick plug: if you're looking for grad students this year, check out the work of two incredible applicants for PhD programs: maria samaritano (research tech in Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic) & my sister Tara Tavakol (undergrad in Peirce-Cottler Lab Virginia BME)!

The Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is at #BMES2022!! Learn more about our work during our 2 talks & 4 posters - our trainees are around all week & at the Columbia BME booth throughout the meeting!

Check out the latest episode of our #CareerConversations #TERC podcast, featuring Dr. Milica Radisic - Professor and Canada Research Chair, and world renowned expert in Organ-on-a-Chip Engineering Biomedical Engineering @ University of Toronto! Milica Radisic Sharon Fleischer 🎗️

Happy new year to all! To celebrate, we're sharing a lab playlist, curated by technician maria samaritano, based on some of the relevant topics from the lab: open.spotify.com/playlist/7cTo0…

Congratulations to Dr. Panpan Chen for winning Best Overall Presentation at the Columbia Department of Surgery Research Symposium Columbia Surgery yesterday!! We are so proud & best of luck in your return to residency Weill Cornell Medicine Surgery.

I had a great time interviewing former Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic member, Dr. Kelsey Kennedy, about her experience as a consultant McKinsey & Company and as a co-founder. Check out this month’s new podcast interview if you are interested in the start-up world and/or consulting! Columbia BME

So happy to see the first major piece of my PhD work in Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic published in Biomaterials on studying the effects of cosmic radiation using bioengineered human tissue models of the heart and bone marrow! doi.org/10.1016/j.biom…

Check out our new analysis tool & publication led by Youngbin Kim now out in IEEE Open J of Engineering in Medicine & Biology: "BeatProfiler" - a machine learning platform for classification of in vitro cardiac muscle functions, for cardiovascular disease modeling & drug testing Paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10490…

The Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is headed to #TERMISWorld 2024 this week! Check out Gordana's Jensen Tissue Engineering award lecture, presentations from Pam Graney, PhD & Margaretha Morsink, & our two organized sessions!! See you there:

Our new paper on using engineered human cardiac tissues to study lupus-mediated myocardial injury is now out in Nature Cardiovascular Research! 🫀🔬 Congratulations to leads Sharon Fleischer 🎗️ & Trevor R. Nash & the team on this important study! nature.com/articles/s4416…

🌟Super happy and proud to finally share our new paper out in Nature Cardiovascular Research 🌟 Why do only some lupus patients develop heart disease while others don’t? And why do the clinical symptoms of those whose hearts are affected vary so dramatically?