Cassandra L. Petrou successfully defended her Master’s thesis, titled, “Clickable, hybrid-hydrogels as tissue culture platforms for modeling fibrotic pulmonary diseases in vitro” in Bioengineering today!! She did an incredible job quickly switching over to a remote format. Stay tuned for updates on a publication coming soon!
Chelsea Magin, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering at CU Denver and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, has been named a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award Winner. The NSF CAREER Program is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support
Precision-cut lung slices are very thin slices of lung tissue that can be kept alive in culture outside of the body and studied as a model for a variety of chronic pulmonary diseases. Unfortunately, slices alone are only viable for about a week, which is not enough time to study disease mechanisms and treatment. The
Duncan Davis-Hall, MS; Vy Nguyen, BS; Tyler D’Ovidio, BS; Ethan Tsai, PhD; Ganna Bilousova, PhD; and Chelsea M. Magin, PhD https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.201900022 Check out the Magin Lab’s first primary research article, published recently in Advanced Biosystems and featured on the journal’s cover! This is the culmination of Duncan Davis-Hall’s work as a Master’s student in
By: Chelsea M. Magin, PhD Congratulations to the Magin Lab (Duncan Davis-Hall, Cassandra Petrou Chelsea Magin and Donald Campbell) for finishing the PH in the Park 5k together this weekend! This is an incredible event that brings together pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, their families, friends and caregivers with physicians and researchers to raise awareness and
By: Emily Thomas, Gates Center Summer Intern My summer in the Magin Lab as a part of the Gates Summer Internship Program was absolutely spectacular! The mentorship provided by both the graduates students and Dr. Chelsea Magin was exceptional and most definitely helped me grow as a researcher. The Magin Lab members were always willing
By. Kolene E. Bailey, MD My name is Kolene E. Bailey, and for the last 2 years, I have been an MD research fellow in Dr. Chelsea Magin’s Lab. My love of science and engineering began back in my undergraduate training as a major in biological engineering and minor in biomedical engineering while at Cornell University
By: Duncan Davis-Hall I was honored with the CU Bioengineering Department’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the BIOE graduation banquet on May 15, 2019. This award is given to one current BIOE graduate student every year and recognizes dedication to scientific pursuit, extracurricular activities, and outreach. Dr. Chelsea Magin nominated me for the Outstanding Graduate
By: Kolene E. Bailey, MD The American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference is the home of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep professionals, from those in the earliest stages of their careers to those whose research or strides in clinical care has gained them international recognition. This year we took a trip to Dallas, TX to
Our review in APJ-Lung highlights how advances in lung tissue characterization reveal dynamic changes in the structure, mechanics and composition of the extracellular matrix in chronic pulmonary diseases, and how this information paves the way for tissue-informed engineering of more organotypic models of human pathology. We envision that engineering strategies using precision biomaterials and advanced
