{"id":5224,"date":"2023-03-03T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:35:33","slug":"pumped-for-stat-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/2023\/03\/03\/pumped-for-stat-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"PUMPed for Stat Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mini-PUMP is a project led by Dr. Christos Michas, a CELL-MET trainee alumnus, and enabled by many CELL-MET collaborations. It is a microscale replica of a heart chamber poised to change the future of medicine and organ engineering. The mini-PUMP \u2013 made from nanoengineered parts and human heart tissue &#8211; can help scientists better understand the human heart and the effects of drugs on it. It also lays critical groundwork for developing rejection-resistant organs. This week, it was selected as one of just 64 projects to compete in Stat Madness, a six-round, bracket-style competition. In this first round of voting, which ends March 7, our CELL-MET team is up against a pig to human heart transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s all take two minutes to show them some support and help them advance to the next round. Here\u2019s how you do it:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/files\/2023\/04\/res-22-1141-HEART-002.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\" class=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back row: Chris Chen and Alice White<br \/>Front row: Christos Michas<br \/>Photo by Jackie Ricciardi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><strong>FOLLOW<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/feature\/stat-madness\/stat-madness-2023\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_campaign=madness2023&amp;utm_medium=alerts_bar&amp;utm_content=logged_out\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>CREATE<\/strong> an account (just needs email, screen name, and password!)<br \/>\n<strong>CLICK<\/strong> \u201cvote\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>SCROLL<\/strong> to Matchup 23<br \/>\n<strong>VOTE<\/strong> for Heart on a Chip<br \/>\n<strong>SHARE<\/strong> with friends!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stat Madness is designed to bring attention to innovative, groundbreaking science so let\u2019s help our team get the recognition they deserve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mini-PUMP is a project led by Dr. Christos Michas, a CELL-MET trainee alumnus, and enabled by many CELL-MET collaborations. It is a microscale replica of a heart chamber poised to change the future of medicine and organ engineering. The mini-PUMP \u2013 made from nanoengineered parts and human heart tissue &#8211; can help scientists better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}