Translational Microfluidics Laboratory

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...

Elizabeth and Wen showcased their recent work on the development of Microfluidics disease models for vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Christian flew to Puerto Rico to update the CMBE community on his work developing methods for activating the Notch family receptors.

Our recent review of Microfluidics devices for mechanotransduction was just accepted to the Journal of Physics Part D: Applied Physics as...

Bill presented recent work from the lab looking at how flows at the cellular level impact vascular permeability and angiogenesis.

PIs Polacheck and Julie Blatt from UNC Pediatric Hematology & Oncology were awarded a pilot grant from the Lymphatic Malformation...

Stephanie updated the community on her work looking at how hemodynamic forces regulate angiogenesis.

Congratulations to Christian, who was recently awarded an NIH T32 Training Fellowship in Vascular Biology as part of the Integrated...

North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NCTraCS) awards pilot award to co-PIs Polacheck and Rizvi. The project is...

Polacheck et al. protocol on fabricating blood vessels using microfluidic technology featured in the latest issue. For more information...

Zach Young, an undergraduate research associate in the Department of Biology, was awarded a summer undergraduate research fellowship for...