Trainees
CELL-MET trainees span 7 institutions: Boston University, Brown University, Columbia University, Florida International University, Harvard University and Medical School, MIT, and University of Michigan.
Trainees are carefully selected and rigorously trained. The Student Leadership Council plays a pivotal role by strategizing with their peers and the Senior Leadership Team to (a) identify trainee and community needs and (b) implement relevant offerings.
Click the drop down menus below to learn more about CELL-MET’s exceptional team of trainees. Click the images to be redirected to additional information about their research.
Student Leadership Council
![]() Research Interests: Studying the maturation of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes Keywords: biomaterials, tissue engineering, cardiovascular, development |
![]() Research Interests: My research focuses on measuring nano-mechanics of soft materials (e.g., engineered cardiac tissues, porcine myocardium, 2D/3D scaffolds, hydrogels, and nanofibers) as well as designing and application of functional nanomaterials. Keywords: nanoindentation, soft matter mechanics, 2D/3D scaffolds, functional nanomaterials |
![]() Research Interests: My research interests are in biomaterials as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Keywords: tissue engineering |
Postdoctoral Trainees
![]() Research Interests: I am developing magnetic sensors for portable imaging of cardiac magnetic fields. Keywords: microsystems, magnetism, magnetic materials, mechanical design, entrepreneurship |
![]() Research Interests: My research focuses on measuring nano-mechanics of soft materials (e.g., engineered cardiac tissues, porcine myocardium, 2D/3D scaffolds, hydrogels, and nanofibers) as well as designing and application of functional nanomaterials. Keywords: nanoindentation, soft matter mechanics, 2D/3D scaffolds, functional nanomaterials |
![]() Research Interests: My research is focused on developing large-scale cardiac tissue culture models for use as biomedical tools and therapeutics. Keywords: cardiac, tissue engineering, genetics, cardiomyocyte, single-cell |
![]() Research Interests: I investigate the effects of fluid (hydrodynamic) stresses on human red blood cells, with relevance to natural and engineered vasculature, and cardiac devices. Keywords: fluid-cell interactions, biophysics, disease transmission |
![]() Research Interests: High-resolution 3D printing for tissue scaffolds and next-gen in vitro models Keywords: 3D printing, in vitro models, microfluidics, stem cells technology, medical devices |
![]() Research Interests: We are developing a map of current outreach and educational programing, which will be used to create a framework for strategic identification of future program planning. Keywords: pre-college program, student involvement, well-being, efficacy, research synthesis |
![]() Research Interests: I am working on the “Multiscale Characterization of Engineered Cardiac Patch for Myocardial Tissue”. Keywords: soft tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials, bio-inspired design, medical devices |
![]() Research Interests: We use nanomaterials to improve the mechanical and electrical properties of the ECM for the better development of human engineered cardiac tissues. Mechanical stretching or electric field are also used. Keywords: brain-behavior, neuro-electrophysiology, complexity. |
Graduate Trainees
![]() Research Interests: Developing an automation platform to provide a standardized and high-throughput workflow for iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes culturing and differentiation. Keywords: synthetic biology, personalized therapy and diagnostic, high-throughput, cell-free, automation |
![]() Research Interests: 3D in vitro models of cardiac injury and repair Keywords: tissue engineering, cardiac injury, regeneration |
![]() Research Interests: Studying the maturation of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes Keywords: biomaterials, tissue engineering, cardiovascular, development |
![]() Research Interests: My research interests include fabricating cardiac tissues from induced pluripotent stem cells and applying micro fabrication technologies to mimic human heart tissue. Keywords: tissue engineering , 3D printing, microfabrication, cardiac tissue engineering, scaffolds |
![]() Research Interests: Bioscaffold processing post-culture, such as decellularization and mechanical property correction. Keywords: decellularization, biomechanics |
![]() Research Interests: Electromechnical maturation of engineered heart tissue Keywords: maturation of EHT |
![]() Research Interests: Developing 3D printed and microfluidic scaffolds to grow and study cardiac microtissues Keywords: microfluidics, MEMS/NEMS, 3D printing, biosensors |
![]() Research Interests: My research investigates the effect of topographical alignment of a fibrillar fibronectin matrix on the maturation of cardiomyocytes to regenerate clinically relevant cardiac tissues to model the healthy and diseased myocardium. Keywords: regenerative medicine, disease modeling, next generation sequencing |
![]() Research Interests: Develop methods to produce metrics to assess the behavior of cardiac tissue from full-field time-lapse images of beating tissue Keywords: computational biomechanics, image segmentation, machine learning, soft tissue |
![]() Research Interests: Engineering rapid vascularization of tissues Keywords: engineering vasculature |
![]() Research Interests: Evaluate the histological and mechanical properties of native porcine left ventricular myocardium. Subject iPSC-CM derived engineered tissue deposited cardiac patch (4-Ply PSIS bioscaffold) to in vitro mechanical conditioning culture. Keywords: pluripotent stem cells, cardiomyocytes, cardiac regeneration, biomechanics, cardiac patch |
![]() Research Interests: My research focuses on developing high throughput tools for toxicity screening and disease modeling using 3D engineered cardiac tissue. Keywords: high throughput imaging, micro-manufacturing, tissue scaffolding, bio-mechanical modeling |
![]() Research Interests: I apply mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics to study hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, one of the most commonly inherited cardiomyopathies. I utilize an iPSC-cardiomyocyte model to characterize changes in the contractile machinery. Keywords: mass spectrometry, phosphoproteomics, hiPSC-cardiomyocytes, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, systems biology |
![]() Research Interests: Characterizing gold as a growth medium for cardiomyocytes. Keywords: biomaterials, cartilage, 3D scaffolds |
![]() Research Interests: Our lab looks into using second-harmonic generation (SHG) imaging in combination with polarized light microscopy to image sarcomeres and use fluid mechanics metrics to analyze sarcomere architecture. Keywords: SHG, fluid mechanics, collagen, heart, brain |
![]() Research Interests: Non-invasive methods for in vivo sarcomere imaging. Keywords: optics, tissue engineering |
![]() Research Interests: Small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) as a means of imaging and characterizing the nanostructure of engineered cardiomyocytes Keywords: soft materials, imaging, magnetics (MEMS), statistical sciences, biology |
![]() Research Interests: In my project, we are developing the Multi-Z confocal microscopy to realize the volumetric imaging of thick engineered cardiac tissue. Keywords: biomedical imaging, microscopy |
![]() Research Interests: I work on surface modification to inhibit cell attachment Keywords: chemical vapor deposition, surface modification, area-selective deposition, |