SUCRE Student Shawn Sutherland Presents at Louisiana Cancer Research Center

Shawn (right) and Kapil (left) at the SUCRE poster session at the Louisiana Cancer Research Center.

This summer, we were delighted to once again be able to host a Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Experience (SUCRE) summer research student. Shawn Sutherland is an undergraduate student at Syracuse University, and spent this summer working closely with graduate student Kapil Thapa to learn how to characterize microvascular density in tumor samples obtained from mouse and human. His work with us was recently highlighted by the Tulane Cancer Center on their social media. To capstone his summer research experience, Shawn successfully presented his work at the Louisiana Cancer Research Center’s SUCRE poster session!

New Paper: Capturing physiological hemodynamic flow and mechanosensitive cell signaling in vessel-on-a-chip platforms

We are delighted to announce that our latest review paper — “Capturing physiological hemodynamic flow and mechanosensitive cell signaling in vessel-on-a-chip platforms” — has just been published at Frontiers in Physiology, as part of the special Research Topic “Mechanotransduction in Vascular Development and Disease“.

In this paper — which is a collaboration between our lab and the lab of Dr. Mark Mondrinos in Tulane Dept. of Biomedical Engineering — we review mechanosensitive signaling in the vasculature, and then explore strategies and challenges for incorporating physiological hemodynamic flow in vessel-on-a-chip microphysiological systems.

Grant Awarded to Fang Lab from Louisiana Board of Regents!

Louisiana Board of Regents

The Fang Lab is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) award from the Louisiana Board of Regents to study the role of connexins in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia! We are very excited to receive support from the State of Louisiana to pursue this work!

Graduate Student Kapil Thapa Receives Honorable Mention Poster Award!

Congratulations to our graduate student Kapil Thapa for  receiving an Honorable Mention award for his poster presented at the Tulane Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit (TRICS) meeting two weeks ago! Kapil was one of two Fang lab graduate students to present at TRICS, and his poster focused on his project studying the role of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in healthy and tumor-associated angiogenesis.