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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 R Suarez
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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