Today I had the profound privilege of watching three of my PhD students – Arun Poudel, Anna-Blessing Merife, Ph.D., and Zachary J. Geffert, PhD -receive their doctoral hoods, and I couldn’t be more proud. I have watched all of you wrestle with hard questions, push through moments of doubt, and grow into rigorous, courageous scholars. […]

Here we use a bottom-up tissue engineering strategy to assemble cell-seeded 3D printed hydrogel modules with perfusable channel networks. This work was led by Zachary J. Geffert, PhD and Daniel Fougnier, with key contributions from Bo Van Durme, Jenna Grutzmacher, Ryan Clarke, Suzie Cao, Zhenghao Li, Ujjwal Aryal, Jason Horton, and Sandra. Van Vlierberghe. We […]

Many congratulations to Dr. Arun Poudel for being selected for an Oral Presentation, Daniel Fougnier for bagged First Prize in the Poster Competition, and Ujjwal Aryal for presenting his poster. This fantastic productively was only possible with significant contributions from Dr. Zachary J. Geffert, Ph.D., Dr. Pretheesh Kumar V C, Angelika Polshikova, Sabya Sachi Biswas, […]

This work develops a new microfluidic chip to study 3D osteocyte networks under pulsatile unidirectional fluid flow stimuli (PUFFS) that could potentially allow researchers to gain crucial insights into how bone senses and adapts to mechanical loads. Congratulations to Anna-Blessing Merife and all co-authors!