We’re Hiring a Bioengineering PhD Student!

The Bio-Inspired Pulmonary Engineering Lab is Hiring! We’re recruiting a highly motivated, collaborative Bioengineering PhD Student for Fall 2023 to work on an NIH-funded project to use hybrid-hydrogels and 3D lung models to study pulmonary fibrosis in vitro. Our Research We engineer biomaterial-based cell culture platforms that mimic lung tissue Study lung disease and regeneration … Continue reading We’re Hiring a Bioengineering PhD Student!

Congratulations EURēCA! Grant Winners

The Education Through Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (EURēCA!) Program has awarded Magin Lab undergraduate researchers, Jaqueline Miller, Andrew Colson, and Saif Noreldeen each with a $500 grant to support their projects. Jacqueline Miller will be working with Alicia Tanneberger to study how lung progenitor cells grow within 3D hydrogels. Andrew Colson will work with … Continue reading Congratulations EURēCA! Grant Winners

Look for the Magin Lab at SFB!

The Magin lab is headed to SFB! We will be giving five talks at the Society for Biomaterials 2022 Annual Meeting, as well as organizing and moderating two sessions: Engineering the Lung Microenvironment and Translating Engineered MultiCellular Living Systems and Cellular Microenvironments. Chelsea Magin: “Evaluating the impact of exposure to scientific role models and work-based … Continue reading Look for the Magin Lab at SFB!

Engineering Tissue-Informed Biomaterials to Advance Pulmonary Regenerative Medicine

Our latest paper, a collaboration with Dr. Amy Ryan at the University of Southern California, presents a closer look at the state-of-the-art of iPSC differentiation for pulmonary engineering, offer evidence supporting the power of biomaterials to improve stem cell differentiation, and discuss our perspective on the potential for tissue-informed biomaterials to transform pulmonary regenerative medicine. … Continue reading Engineering Tissue-Informed Biomaterials to Advance Pulmonary Regenerative Medicine

Clickable decellularized extracellular matrix as a new tool for building hybrid-hydrogels to model chronic fibrotic diseases in vitro

The Magin Lab is thrilled to share our latest publication on hybrid-hydrogels for modeling fibrotic diseases in vitro. This international collaboration was led by Cassandra Petrou and includes colleagues from Lund University in Sweden. It was also featured on the cover of the Themed Issue: Emerging Investigators 2020 of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B. … Continue reading Clickable decellularized extracellular matrix as a new tool for building hybrid-hydrogels to model chronic fibrotic diseases in vitro