Kevin receives F31 Award

Kevin Shores received an F31 predoctoral fellowship from NIH for his project "Investigating the Effects of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome Mutation Correction in Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessels". This is for the period 8/1/2024-7/31/2026.

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A Translational Center for Barrier MPS

Big news! Thanks to a $7.5 million NIH grant, the University of Rochester, in partnership with Duke University, is planning to house a new national center focused on developing non-animal, FDA-qualified drug development tools.

Mingzhi receives AHA Fellowship

Mingzhi received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for the two year period January 1, 2024-December 31, 2025.  Her project is entitled "Integrating engineered blood vessel mimic and muscle to study the relation of rheumatoid...

Mingzhi receives IFER Fellowship

Mingzhi received a fellowship from the International Federation for Ethical Research (IFER) for her project "An Integrated Microfluidic System with Engineered Blood Vessel Mimic and Skeletal Muscle to Investigate the Relation Between Rheumatoid Arthritis...

Ellery receives F31 Award

Elley Jones receive an F31 fellowship from NHLBI for her project entitled "Atherosclerotic Risk of Branched Chain Amino Acids in a Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel Model" which is aprt of her PhD dissertation.  Congratulations Ellery for your hard work and...

Kevin's CBTE Fellowship renewed

Kevin received a second year of support on the NSRA T32 Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE), commencing on 9/1/22.

Ellery receives 2021 Pratt Outstanding Research Mentor Award

Ellery received one of two 2021 Pratt Outstanding Research Mentor Awards from the BEM Department.  Undergraduates nominated graduate students for their mentoring.  This is the citation Ellery received:  “Ellery was noted for her genuine care and support...

Zixie and Mingzhi present master's research

Zixie Liang and Mingzhi Xu successfully presented their master's research on April 11, 2022.  Excellent work.  Zixie is off to yale for her PhD in BME.  Mingzhi will continue PhD studies in the Truskey lab.

Lauren receives a T32 fellowship

 Lauren received a two-year fellowship for the Duke-UNC Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children T32 Training Program beginning April 29, 2022.

New PhD graduates

Anandita, Catherine and Nadia successfully defended their PhD dissertations during the last week of March, 2022.  Congratulations for all of your excellent research!

Lauren receives a CMN Hospitals Trainee Research Award

Lauren received a one year award beginning March 1 for the proposal entitled, Role of Type I Interferon in Juvenile Dermatomyositis: Novel Approach with Engineered 3D Human Skeletal Muscle Model, was selected for a Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals...

Crystal Kennedy Receives NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Crystal received an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship for the period July 1, 2020 - June 30,2023 for the project entitled "Progeria and Vasculature: Investigating Genetic Effects and the Potential of Genome Editing for Treatment".  Her research examines...

Truskey Lab Alumna Erica Brown Peter's work on the cover of Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews (Feb 2018)

Lab alumna Erica Brown Peters work was featured on  the cover of the February 2018  issue of Tissue Engineering part B: Reviews (Vol 24, No 1) http://online.liebertpub.com/action/showLargeCover?issue=40420568 (Revi… Article Pg 1-24)  

Dr. George Truskey appointed Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Truskey is Editor-in-Chief, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering  https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-opinion-in-biomedical-enginee…;                                        …

Megan Kondash awarded 3rd prize in the 2018 Envision the Invisible Contest

Megan Kondash, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, was awarded third prize for her image of striated human skeletal muscle myotubes in the 2018 Envision the Invisible contest. https://envisioning.pratt.duke.edu/content/2018-contest