Samira Musah

I am tremendously grateful to receive the 2023 @NIH Director's New Innovator Award to develop new therapeutic modalities for degenerative glomerulopathies. Many thanks to my mentors, trainees, family, and friends for their support/contributions to this journey. Onward! @MusahLab

Learn more about our work at: musahlab.pratt.duke.edu & @StemCellEngineer.bsky.social

Sophia dives into some of our work using human stem cell derivatives to engineer patient-specific preclinical models, helping us uncover disease mechanisms and identify new and safe therapeutics.

Check out this new #TEDx talk by an inspiring #MusahLab undergraduate researcher and recent @DukeU graduate, Sophia Leeman! youtube.com/watch?v=IskrjY… #STEM #BiomedicalEngineering #PatientSpecificModels #StemCells #PreclinicalModels #MPS

@KizzyPhD @KizzyPhD_Lab Congratulations, @KizzyPhD!

I am so honored to be the recipient of the prestigious Hans Sigrist Prize, which not only recognizes my previous contributions to vaccine research, but provides @KizzyPhD_Lab with funding to advance our work further …

Congratulations to #MusahLab graduate student Yize (Eon) Zhang for leading this work from our team exploring the interface between biomaterials and cell biology! #tissuemodels #mechanobiology #stemcellresearch #tissueengineering #Bioengineering #YAP #synaptopdin #hydrogel

These findings provide a step towards designing better environments for studying podocyte biology and could have implications for improving tissue engineering and kidney disease modeling.

Latest research publication from our lab reveals a role for YAP-activating hydrogels in stem cell-derived podocyte differentiation and molecular-level specialization. Full Paper: doi.org/10.3390/bioeng… Here's what we found:

The Vollum Institute is accepting applications for multiple faculty openings. We are interested in individuals whose research focuses on molecular and cellular neuroscience, genetics, neurodevelopment or signal transduction. #sciencejobs #neurotwitter academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28203

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14… pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102… nature.com/articles/s4155…

Check out some of our related work using biomaterial platforms to guide stem cell differentiation and self-renewal and tissue development, function, and disease:  science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Our newest publication is out in @naturemethods! It highlights the potential of biomaterials in realizing the translational power of organoids. #MusahLab Full article: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Congratulations to the #MusahLab team of graduate and undergraduate students for their remarkable collaborative efforts!

Here's the related research article that inspired this work: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited to share our new review article published in IJMS on #fenestrated #endothelium across organs! We explore strategies to advance #vascularized tissue models, including a new method to induce fenestrated endothelium from #stemcells. mdpi.com/1422-0067/25/1…