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Principal Investigator and Research Professor
Christopher Chen
Principal Investigator
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Jennifer (Jen) Bays
Exploring mechanisms regulating vascular morphogenesis
Dhananjay Deshmukh
Linking architecture to vascular disease and health through in-vitro models
Eric Horst
Exploring the effects of mechano-geometric signaling on disease and development in pulmonary and vascular tissue.
Mustafa Cagatay Karakan
​Developing 3D heart-on-chip platforms
Sudong Kim
Endothelial cell adhesion and morphogenesis
Julia Mehl
Synthetic biology strategies to control vascularization
Freddy Suarez Rodriguez
Stem cell engineering for vascular disease modelling
Jessica (Jess) Li Chang Teo
Effects of Notch signaling on cell-cell adhesion and vascular homeostasis
Claudia Varela
Role of biomechanical stimuli in cardiomyocyte specialization after a heart attack
Sheng Wang
Harnessing multicellular synthetic biology for next-generation Organ-On-A-Chip models
Graduate Students
Xining Gao
Harvard-MIT HST
Esther Koh
Harvard-MIT HST
Charlotte Misturado
BME, Boston University
Miranda Wang
Harvard-MIT HST
Lab Staff
Amy Michael
Senior Program Coordinator
Laurie Kelleher
Laboratory Manager
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