Tag: Polacheck Laboratory

Congratulations to William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for recently receiving tenure and promotion, starting June 4, 2025, to Associate Professor in UNC’s Biomedical Engineering-Joint Department.

Congratulations to Dr. Wen Yih Aw, a research assistant professor in the Polacheck Lab, for having her paper, entitled, “Dysfunctional mechanotransduction regulates the progression of PIK3CA-driven vascular malformations”, selected as an “Editor’s Choice” in APL Bioengineering.     Dr. Aw’s paper investigates the role of hemodynamics in progression of vascular...

Congratulations to the Labs of Edward Moreira Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology; Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery; McAllister Heart Institute, Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Brian C. Jensen, M.D., an MHI member and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Victoria...

Congratulations to William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, and Chloe Whitworth, a Ph.D. student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, for publishing article, titled “P300 modulates endothelial mechanotransduction of fluid shear stress”,...

Congratulations to William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, in collaboration with Jason Stein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC Neuroscience Center, for the receipt of NeuroSpark pilot award to develop...

Congratulations to the Lab of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for publishing on the development of patient cell-derived matrix for vascular disease modeling in Acta Biomaterialia. For this manuscript, titled...

Congratulations to the Lab of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for publishing vascular malformation-on-chip model for drug screening in Science Advances.         For this manuscript, titled “Microphysiological...

Congratulations to Dr. Wen Yih Aw, a biomolecular engineering (BME) postdoctoral fellow in the Polacheck Lab, for recently receiving a 2022 research grant from the CLOVES Syndrome Foundation. The one-year pilot grant provides funds to extend Dr. Aw’s work in developing patient-specific microfluidic models of the microvasculature to screen for...

Congratulations to Elizabeth Doherty, a graduate student and IVB trainee in the Polacheck Lab, for recently receiving an F31 individual fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI.     The fellowship provides stipend support to develop cell and tissue biomechanical methods to better understand and treat vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Elizabeth’s project is titled,...

Congratulations to the Lab of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for publishing a new microfluidic platform for vascular biology in Biofabrication. Dr. Gi-Hun Lee and colleagues in the lab addressed...