Our latest work on elucidating matrix stiffness contributions to esophageal adenocarcinoma is now live on bioRxiv! Go ahead and take a look! BurdickLab Loebel Lab Anil K. Rustgi #EAC #hydrogel #biomechanics #LatinXinBME

The very first Cruz-Acuña Lab lunch was a lot of fun! Shoutout to Secunda and Daniel, next generation of rising starts. Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia U. Dental Medicine

Today the Cruz-Acuña Lab enjoyed the weather at the Columbia Medicine Fall Holiday Festival with hot soup, decorative squashes, and treats. #newPI

Our review on synthetic hydrogels for human intestinal organoid culture & therapeutic delivery is out in Advanced Materials. Grt job Adriana Mulero-Russe! doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

Thank you for joining us for the 8th Engineering in Medicine Symposium! Make sure to share what you learned and your photos using #EIM24

Thank you Columbia BME for the opportunity to share my work at the #EIM Engineering in Medicine Symposium. It was a great event to meet amazing prospective students! Columbia Medicine Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia Engineering #CancerResearch

I had a fantastic time presenting my work at the #NCI last week during the Annual Program Meeting on the Origins of Gastroesophageal Cancers. Thank you for the opportunity NIH Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center #CancerResearch #LatinXinBME

Columbia Engineering and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CDM) have received approval from the New York State Department of Education to offer a newly created joint DDS/PhD program in dental biomedical engineering. Read more👉 bit.ly/4a97mIT

What a great dinner last night w/ some of the members of the NYC Biomaterials Club @Irene_dLz and Santiago Correa 🏳️‍🌈 @santicorreaphd.bsky.social! #NYCBEC #LatinXBME

Happy to be back to sunny San Diego for #AACR24. Come see my poster (#4268) on Tuesday at 9am. AACR Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center #CancerResearch #LatinXinBME

Last week I had the pleasure to present my work and meet many wonderful scientists and trainees at the UPR-Comprehensive Cancer Center Centro Comprensivo de Cancer UPR. What a great opportunity to learn about the exciting cancer research being done in PR! Recinto de Ciencias Médicas UPR #LatinXinBME #LatinXinSTEM #ProudPRican

So grateful to Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience @ GT, GT_BioE and GarciaLabGT for hosting me this week at Georgia Tech. I had a fantastic time presenting my work, learning about what’s new at IBB, and interacting with students, staff and colleagues. It’s a pleasure to be back! #GoJackets #LatinXinBME

Amazing culture, research and people. That’s Georgia Tech. So happy to visit!

I’m very excited to be in Daegu, South Korea for WBC2024, and the chance to connect with Biomaterials researchers from all over the world. Please say Hi if you’re here and see me around. Oh, and I’ll have a poster in the Wednesday session. #LatinXinBME

The June meeting of the NYC Biomaterials Eating Club - Korean food on the menu 😍 @Irene_dLz @thewooj Ricardo Cruz-Acuña

Another amazing #GRCSTEEM for the books! Thank you Kumar Lab, UC Berkeley and Shelly for organizing such a fun meeting filled with exciting science. Looking forward to 2026! @pruitt_research Kelly Stevens