Our lab just got bigger! This fall, we welcomed three new postdocs—Dr. Shih-Yen Wei (Taiwan), Dr. JinJu Kim (Korea), and Dr. Youlu Chen (China)—and visiting student Hyunjung Kim (Korea) to our team at Boston Children's and Harvard Medical School. Welcome aboard! meleromartinlab.com

Online Now! Generation of iPSC-derived human venous endothelial cells for the modeling of vascular malformations and drug discovery dlvr.it/TGLD8T #stemcells

Yesterday, we celebrated the holidays at our annual Department of Cardiac Surgery party! The Melero-Martin Lab enjoyed great food, a few drinks, and even better company. Grateful for such an amazing team. Wishing you all a joyful holiday season! 🎊🎄✨Boston Children's Harvard Medical School

NEW: GutID, the first commercial human gut health test powered by HiFi sequencing, sets a new benchmark in gut microbiome testing. Learn how this transformative tool is leveraging #PacBio tech to open new frontiers in #healthcare by providing deeper insights into the human

Excited to be a speaker at the Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series on January 21! Looking forward to sharing insights from our work at Boston Children's and Harvard Medical School. Hope to see you there!

Exciting new work from Joyce Bischoff just out in jclininvest! They reveal how the endothelial SOX18–mevalonate pathway axis opens the door to repurposing statins for treating infantile hemangioma. jci.org/articles/view/… Editor’s Note: jci.org/articles/view/…

Mitochondrial transfer in endothelial cells and vascular health: Trends in Cell Biology cell.com/trends/cell-bi…

Mitochondrial transfer in endothelial cells and vascular health dlvr.it/TKmDDd

Excited to share our new review, now online at Trends in Cell Biology! We discuss mitochondrial transfer in endothelial cells and its role in vascular health. Boston Children's Harvard Medical School Cell Press cell.com/trends/cell-bi…

New in Nature Cardiovascular Research! ETV2 guides endothelial cell fate by recruiting REST to repress alternative lineages. This paper offers new insights into EC specification using single-cell multi-omics. Glad to have contributed! #ETV2 #endothelialcells #stemcells nature.com/articles/s4416…

Online Now! Rapid generation of functional vascular organoids via simultaneous transcription factor activation of endothelial and mural lineages dlvr.it/TLLCMC #stemcells

Rapid Formation of Vascular Organoids from #iPSCs via TF Activation A dual #transcriptionfactor activation method enables rapid generation of #vascularorganoids, accelerating modeling and therapy development Juan Melero-Martin Boston Children's Harvard Medical School hubs.ly/Q03s1ZrH0

Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident newscientist.com/article/248422…

Our new Advanced Science paper is out! We show that human bone-derived endothelial cells drive bone regeneration via KIT ligand expression, revealing a vascular niche role in skeletal repair. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… #BoneRegeneration #KITLG #EndothelialCells #RegenerativeMedicine

The new Department of Functional Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine is looking for scientists at any level. 👇 mpi-muenster.mpg.de/780013/profil

Welcome Ziyan Liu to the lab! She’s a rising sophomore at Johns Hopkins University and joins us this summer through the HSCI HIP program to work on allogeneic stem cell therapies for vascular disease. Good luck with the experiments! #HSCI #VascularBiology #StemCells

New from the Juan Melero-Martin & Dr. Kai Wang's lab! Dr. Liyan Gong & her colleagues generated functional vascular #organoids via orthogonal activation of the transcription factors ETV2 and NKX3.1. Cell Stem Cell paper: bit.ly/3HH9Hlx Episode: bit.ly/4nzLrCp