Warmest congratulations to Claudia Claudia Wong and Parker Parker Esswein for being awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation GRFP! Well deserved! We are so proud of you! Duke Biomedical Engineering #NSFGRFP

For our April journal club, we revisited the inspiring work by BurdickLab in Nature Materials: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our undergrad Lucas Ramirez presented his research at the Duke Engineering Pratt Research Fellows Poster Session last Thursday. Great work!!🥳

Celebrating the graduation of our senior students Edwin Yu and Lucas Ramirez🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓! Wishing you all continued success in your future endeavors. Duke Engineering

What we're reading📖📖📖: nature.com/articles/s4158… Juan Melero-Martin

We're honored to be featured as the NAVBO lab of the month for May!! navbo.org/members-labs/

Some photos from Dr. YingYu Lin's (YingYu Lin) hooding ceremony yesterday!!! Could not be more proud of her and all her accomplishments leading up to this milestone 🎓🎓🎓🎓 Johns Hopkins ChemBE Johns Hopkins Engineering

Oncogene-->ECM composition-->ECM organization -->T cell fate! With Eisinger Lab leading, we show that YAP1 promotes collagen VI deposition in sarcoma, leading to the remodeling of fibrillar collagen, which in turn causes CD8+ T cell dysfunction. jci.org/articles/view/…

We enjoyed reading and discussing work from RafiiLab in our last journal club: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats Travis Brady for a great job!!

Postdocs Jiyeon and Ya are headed to Seattle today for the TERMIS World Congress! If you're also in attendance, check out their talks this week!👇👇👇

Last month's journal club!! 🔖 --> nature.com/articles/s4158…

Graduate student Taylor is attending the IVBM 2024 in Amsterdam! Talk to her if you are also there😀#IVBM

We are excited to announce that Prof. Sharon Gerecht has been appointed chair of Duke BME! As an impressive researcher and inspiring mentor, we know Prof. Gerecht will be an excellent guiding force for our department and Duke BME community. pratt.duke.edu/news/gerecht-n…

So excited for the amazing Gerecht Lab and her new role. Great things happening at Duke! pratt.duke.edu/news/gerecht-n…

Thank you!!!

Congrats to undergraduate student Nico on completing his AHA SURE summer fellowship program last week with a great presentation! 👏👏👏

Welcome to our new Associate in Research/Lab Management, Makenzie Bushold! She's from Philadelphia, PA and studied Human Factors Engineering at U.S. Military Academy at West Point. We're excited to have her join the lab!!