Research Topic: Lung functional mechanobiology in health and disease (cancer, acute injury, infection)
Faculty Mentor: Hadi Nia
Authorships on publications supported by TRB
- Grifno, G.N., Kahvecioglu, H.A., Travnik, V., LeBourdais, R., Banerji, R., Wangsrikhun, W., Shi, L., Bozal, S.B., Suh, H., Batgidis, A., Kang, B., Kobayter A., Castle, L., Regan, R., Deng, F., Vannini, M., Rashidian, M., Hao, L., Mizgerd, J.P., Longest, W., Hindle M., Saltzman, W.M., Butler, J.P., Suki, B., Nia, H.T., “Mosaic pattern: lung functional heterogeneity at the alveolus level”, Nature Biomedical Engineering, accepted, 2026.
- Banerji, R.*, Grifno, G.N.*, Shi, L., Smolen, D., LeBourdais, R., Muhvich, J., Eberman, C., Hiller, B., Lee, J., Regan, K., Zheng., Zhang, S.S., Traber, K., Ligresti, G., Mizgerd., J.P., Suki, B., Nia, H.T., “Crystal ribcage: a platform for probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution”, Nature Methods (2023). *equal contribution. PMID: 37710017, PMCID: PMC10860663
- Zhang, S., Grifno, G.N., Passaro, R., Regan, K., Zheng, S., Hadzipasic, M., Banerji, R., O’Connor, L., Chu, V., Kim, S.Y., Yang, J., Karrobi, K., Roblyer, D., Grinstaff, M., Nia, H.T., “In vivo multiscale measurements of solid stresses in tumors reveal scale-dependent stress transmission”, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2023). PMID: 37640900, PMCID: PMC10836235
- LeBourdais, R., Grifno, G.N., Banerji, R., Regan, K., Suki, B., Nia, H.T., “Mapping the strain-stiffening behavior of the lung and lung cancer at microscale resolution using the crystal ribcage”, Frontiers in Network Physiology (2024). PMID: 39050550, PMCID: PMC11266057.