Session O-2G

Bioengineered Systems to Test Treatments for Hearts and Other Organs

3:45 PM to 5:15 PM | MGH 231 | Moderated by Benjamin Freedman
Add to my favorites A hiPSC Model of Cardiomyopathies
Presenter
  • Lauren D'amico, Senior, Public Health-Global Health Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Farid Moussavi-Harami, Medicine
  • Abigail Nagle, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Exploring Calcium Flux-Correcting Drugs to Alleviate Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Cardiomyopathy
Presenter
  • Naveen Arunachalam Sakthiyendran, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • David Mack, Rehabilitation Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Add to my favorites Elucidating the Mechanisms of Desmoplakin Premature Truncating Variants Leading to Arrhythmogenic CardiomyopathyĀ 
Presenter
  • Leslie Sy Ling Chao, Senior, Microbiology Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Daniel Yang, Cardiology

Add to my favorites Engineered Heart Tissue Image Processing Suite
Presenter
  • Alan Reuben Levinson, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Nathan Sniadecki, Mechanical Engineering
  • Samantha Bremner, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Modeling Structure and Mechanical Changes for Nemaline Myopathy-Inducing Mutation H40Y in ACTA1 Simulated in the Presence of Designed Therapeutic Small Molecule
Presenter
  • Joanne Boysen, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • David Mack, Rehabilitation Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  • Matthew Childers, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites Three-Dimensional (3D) Engineered Bone Tissue to Investigate the Effects of Dynamic and Static Loading on Bone Development In Vitro
Presenter
  • Karen Sugimoto Gaffney, Senior, Bioengineering: Data Science Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • David Mack, Rehabilitation Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  • Samantha Bremner, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites A Novel Approach to Segment Specialized Annotations in Electron Microscopy Images of Glomerular Podocytes
Presenters
  • Andre Ye, Freshman, Center for Study of Capable Youth
  • David Dmitrivich Smerkous, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Scientific Computing & Numerical Algorithms)
Mentor
  • Behzad Najafian, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology