POLACHECK LAB

We are hiring engineers with bachelors degrees in mechanical engineering or related fields. The position involves building tissue...

Congratulations to Elizabeth, Emily, Stephanie, and Wen for presenting 2 podium presentations and 2 posters at BMES in Orlando. Stephanie...

Sandra's work during her 4-month visit to the Polacheck Lab in 2018 was recently published in Biomicrofluidics. Sandra is a PhD candidate...

Bill was awarded the 3-yr grant to further develop cell biology and zebrafish approaches within his lab. Dr. Aw will be leading the...

Work led by the newly-minted Dr. Willy Wang in Dr. Brendon Baker's lab at Michigan demonstrates the role of porous media properties in...

Today, work from the Trappmann Lab investigating the role of matrix adhesion and degradability was published in Nature Communications. A...

Crescentia was awarded a virtual talk to present an update on her work to grow vascular networks within decellularized porcine...

Elizabeth joined leading clinicians and scientists working to understand the mechanisms that underly vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to...

Congratulations to Kandice Thomas and the Bressan Lab for their recent paper in Developmental Cell. We were honored to contribute...

In collaboration with Dr. Anthony Hickey and the UNC Catalyst for Rare Disease, Elizabeth and Wen provide perspective on the use of...

The Polacheck Lab was awarded a 1-yr flash grant to determine whether microfluidic models of human microvasculature can predict...

Stephanie was inducted into the 2020 class of NIH T32 training fellows through the Integrative Vascular Biology program hosted through...

Crescentia represented the lab virtually during BMES to present her work on developing engineered microvascular networks! The...

Elizabeth is providing an update on her work to develop engineered models for vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a collaboration between...

Although he's moved on to bigger and better things, Zach came out of lab retirement to present his work on measuring the effects of...

We are pleased to welcome Emily Warren and Anne Hope Cooper to the lab as BME Abrams Scholar Fellows. This prestigious fellowship...

Our work describing a new microfluidic device for modeling the vascularized mammary duct was just published in Nature Communications....

Elizabeth was awarded a spot in the Integrated Vascular Biology T32 training fellowship at the UNC School of Medicine to support her work...

Stephanie was selected to attend a two week in-depth training session in mechanobiology methods and theory hosted by the NSF Center for...

Bill presented work from the lab on developing human microfluidic models of lymphatic malformations at the annual RARE Drug Symposium...