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Collaboration with Trappmann Lab published in Nature Communications
Today, work from the Trappmann Lab investigating the role of matrix adhesion and degradability was published in Nature Communications. A...
Jun 6, 2021


Crescentia presents a virtual talk at the Society for Biomaterials annual meeting
Crescentia was awarded a virtual talk to present an update on her work to grow vascular networks within decellularized porcine...
Apr 18, 2021


Elizabeth presents an update at the DEFY VEDS scientific meeting
Elizabeth joined leading clinicians and scientists working to understand the mechanisms that underly vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to...
Apr 8, 2021
Collaboration with Bressan Lab published in Dev Cell
Congratulations to Kandice Thomas and the Bressan Lab for their recent paper in Developmental Cell. We were honored to contribute...
Mar 14, 2021


Elizabeth and Wen publish in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
In collaboration with Dr. Anthony Hickey and the UNC Catalyst for Rare Disease, Elizabeth and Wen provide perspective on the use of...
Jan 8, 2021
Lab awarded North Carolina Biotechnology Grant to screen SARS-CoV2+ plasma
The Polacheck Lab was awarded a 1-yr flash grant to determine whether microfluidic models of human microvasculature can predict...
Jan 1, 2021


Stephanie awarded training fellowship!
Stephanie was inducted into the 2020 class of NIH T32 training fellows through the Integrative Vascular Biology program hosted through...
Dec 1, 2020


Crescentia presents virtual talk at BMES 2020
Crescentia represented the lab virtually during BMES to present her work on developing engineered microvascular networks! The...
Oct 19, 2020


Elizabeth presents a virtual talk at BMES
Elizabeth is providing an update on her work to develop engineered models for vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a collaboration between...
Oct 19, 2020


Zach presents a poster virtually at BMES
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...
Oct 18, 2020


2020-2021 Abrams Scholars
We are pleased to welcome Emily Warren and Anne Hope Cooper to the lab as BME Abrams Scholar Fellows. This prestigious fellowship...
Oct 8, 2020


Vascularized cancer model published in Nature Communications
Our work describing a new microfluidic device for modeling the vascularized mammary duct was just published in Nature Communications....
Jul 10, 2020


Elizabeth awarded training fellowship!
Elizabeth was awarded a spot in the Integrated Vascular Biology T32 training fellowship at the UNC School of Medicine to support her work...
Jul 10, 2020


Stephanie attends Mechanobiology Bootcamp
Stephanie was selected to attend a two week in-depth training session in mechanobiology methods and theory hosted by the NSF Center for...
Jul 5, 2020


Bill presents at RARE Drug Symposium
Bill presented work from the lab on developing human microfluidic models of lymphatic malformations at the annual RARE Drug Symposium...
Jun 17, 2020


Elizabeth presents at UNC Rare Disease Day
Elizabeth and Wen showcased their recent work on the development of Microfluidics disease models for vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Mar 9, 2020


Christian presents at the Cell and Molecular Bioengineering Conference
Christian flew to Puerto Rico to update the CMBE community on his work developing methods for activating the Notch family receptors.
Mar 9, 2020


Review paper on microfluidics!
Our recent review of Microfluidics devices for mechanotransduction was just accepted to the Journal of Physics Part D: Applied Physics as...
Mar 9, 2020


Bill gives talk at the Annual Biofluids Meeting in Tuscon
Bill presented recent work from the lab looking at how flows at the cellular level impact vascular permeability and angiogenesis.
Feb 21, 2020


Grant awarded to model lymphatic malformations
PIs Polacheck and Julie Blatt from UNC Pediatric Hematology & Oncology were awarded a pilot grant from the Lymphatic Malformation...
Jan 1, 2020
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