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Introducing Dr. Sabrina VandenHeuvel! The second PhD from our lab - she defended a foundational body of work in using dECM materials to model cancer metastasis!
Her platform can be used for both therapeutic and mechanistic discovery ✨

Check out this recently published review from @raghavanlab.bsky.social on dormancy in metastatic colorectal cancer: tissue engineering opportunities for in vitro modeling!

Read more here: doi.org/10.1089/ten....

Dormancy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Tissue Engineering Opportunities for In Vitro Modeling | Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews Colorectal cancer (CRC) recurs at a striking rate, specifically in patients with liver metastasis. Dormant CRC cells disseminated following initial primary tumor resection or treatment often resurface...

What do dormant microscopic metastatic colorectal cancers do when no one's looking? No one knows, because we don't have good models for them! Grad students Sabrina VandenHeuvel and Lucy Nash highlight the opportunities for tissue engineering in this space: t.ly/leJPt
Out now in Tissue Engineering B!

Hey #SFB2025 Assistant Profs! Join the New Investigators Anonymous workshop today at 1 PM. Connect, commiserate, swap tips, and find collaborators. We’re all figuring this out together. Follow signs near registration!

Considering how to put biomaterials to use for engineering women's health? Join us at the "Breaking Into Women's Health Using Biomaterial Technologies" panel on Thursday, 1:30p at Society for Biomaterials!

From my first @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social annual meeting - I am hopeful and energized having met this fantastic community of scholars working on reproductive health!
Bonus - we got to talk about my lab’s work on quantifying myometrial contractility for insights into postpartum hemorrhage!

Thank you! It was such a great first #SRI2025 for me!

It’s gorgeous 🤩

Congratulations Zainab!!

2025 Study section tracking

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Thank you @rnareylab.bsky.social for the football stadium analogy for indirect costs and for spelling this out! Science saves lives - and so much of that happens in Texas!

This remains my greatest concern during these times. We need to protect them.

Women’s Health Equity Sex is often viewed as a piece of demographic data and used as a control variable in analysis. However, when discussing women’s health, a much deeper and more nuanced approach is required. Both sex and gender impact health outcomes; however, sex and gender are often incorrectly conflated and used interchangeably. For women, both sex (biological factors) and gender (social meanings and expectations) work in conjunction to impact their health. For example, women are socialized and expected to be caregivers to family members, both children and aging parents, which can have negative consequences for their health. This chapter covers several areas of health disparities—differences between men and women; differences between groups of women; and the health outcomes of different groups of women. It focuses on the gendered experiences of health and ways to address and alleviate some of these differences.

Officially back from my last maternity leave ever! Wish I had more time off but am so honored to share that our chapter on Women's Health Equity has been published. We dedicate our work to #MaryDiceyScroggins. connect.springerpub.com/content/book...