Stephanie awarded training fellowship!
Stephanie was inducted into the 2020 class of NIH T32 training fellows through the Integrative Vascular Biology program hosted through...
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Oct 20, 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 20, 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 8, 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...
Jul 10, 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 6, 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...
Jun 17, 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...
Mar 9, 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...
Feb 21, 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.
Jan 1, 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...
Sep 30, 2019
Stephanie presents at the Triangle Cytoskeletal Meeting
Stephanie updated the community on her work looking at how hemodynamic forces regulate angiogenesis.
Jun 26, 2019
Christian awarded fellowship
Congratulations to Christian, who was recently awarded an NIH T32 Training Fellowship in Vascular Biology as part of the Integrated...
Jun 12, 2019
Grant awarded to study ovarian cancer
North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NCTraCS) awards pilot award to co-PIs Polacheck and Rizvi. The project is...
May 5, 2019
Cover of Nature Protocols
Polacheck et al. protocol on fabricating blood vessels using microfluidic technology featured in the latest issue. For more information...
Apr 10, 2019
Young receives 2019 SURF
Zach Young, an undergraduate research associate in the Department of Biology, was awarded a summer undergraduate research fellowship for...
Feb 1, 2019
Bill gives talk at Physics of Cancer GRC
The focus of this year's Gordon Research Conference is 'Measuring, Modeling, and Predicting the Physics of Cancer' and is being held in...
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