Prof. Brian Aguado
@brianaguado.bsky.social
Asst Professor of BioEng, UC San Diego | #SexDifferences 🤝 #Biomaterials | LatinXinBME Cofounder | CZI Science Diversity Leader | NIH Director’s New Innovator | WHISDEM Center Co-Director for Women’s Health | 🇨🇴🇺🇸🏳️🌈
https://aguado.eng.ucsd.edu/
https://aguado.eng.ucsd.edu/
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Hi Bluesky! 👋 I’m Brian Aguado, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego. My lab investigates sex differences in cardiovascular disease using biomaterials and tissue engineering tools. Let’s dismantle the science patriarchy & perform equitable science for all. I also pretend to surf! 😜
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AIMBE is hosting a breakfast roundtable titled "The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Research" at the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social Meeting on 11/18!
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE members for this important conversation on advocacy 👇
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE members for this important conversation on advocacy 👇
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
AIMBE is hosting a breakfast roundtable titled "The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Research" at the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social Meeting on 11/18!
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE members for this important conversation on advocacy 👇
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE members for this important conversation on advocacy 👇
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Happily attended #LatinxInBME Symposium. Has been amazing seeing this @latinxinbme.bsky.social community grow under leadership of @brianaguado.bsky.social & @anamaporras.bsky.social. This 1-day event occurs before annual BMES meeting & is inclusive welcoming all such this biochemist 😀. #LatinskySTEM
October 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Happily attended #LatinxInBME Symposium. Has been amazing seeing this @latinxinbme.bsky.social community grow under leadership of @brianaguado.bsky.social & @anamaporras.bsky.social. This 1-day event occurs before annual BMES meeting & is inclusive welcoming all such this biochemist 😀. #LatinskySTEM
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Honored to have spoken at the 2025 @latinxinbme.bsky.social Symposium at UC San Diego!
It was a privilege to share @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy work.
I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊
It was a privilege to share @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy work.
I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊
October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Honored to have spoken at the 2025 @latinxinbme.bsky.social Symposium at UC San Diego!
It was a privilege to share @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy work.
I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊
It was a privilege to share @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy work.
I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊
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Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP
jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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Step inside the brand-new @ucsandiego.bsky.social Bioengineering Instructional Lab spaces, which are ready for students this fall! Bioengineering lab courses will benefit from a larger, sleeker space, while bioengineering design projects will come to life in a cutting-edge makerspace.
September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Step inside the brand-new @ucsandiego.bsky.social Bioengineering Instructional Lab spaces, which are ready for students this fall! Bioengineering lab courses will benefit from a larger, sleeker space, while bioengineering design projects will come to life in a cutting-edge makerspace.
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🚨 AIMBE calls on the scientific community to urge Congress to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget 👇
Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.
takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...
Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.
takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...
Protect Research: Finalize FY2026 Budget Now
Use AIMBE's letter template below to send an email to your Members of Congress on issues that matter. We encourage you to edit and personalize the note, sharing your individual experience. Please note...
takeaction.io
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🚨 AIMBE calls on the scientific community to urge Congress to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget 👇
Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.
takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...
Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.
takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...
Happy 4th bday to the #AguadoLab! Made my signature BBQ chicken and played games - Chameleon was super fun!! Thankful for this team always and everything they do! 💙
July 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Happy 4th bday to the #AguadoLab! Made my signature BBQ chicken and played games - Chameleon was super fun!! Thankful for this team always and everything they do! 💙
Kicking off summer celebrating my National Science Foundation CAREER Award! ☀️🔬 Your US taxpayer dollars will be invested in the #AguadoLab to learn how sex chromosomes modulate health & disease using our bioengineered cell culture platforms and educate future bioengineers about sex differences! 🙌
June 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Kicking off summer celebrating my National Science Foundation CAREER Award! ☀️🔬 Your US taxpayer dollars will be invested in the #AguadoLab to learn how sex chromosomes modulate health & disease using our bioengineered cell culture platforms and educate future bioengineers about sex differences! 🙌
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I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
health.ucdavis.edu
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...
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Have you seen the #scientific #session #topics at the ASMB 2025 Biennial meeting #ASMB2025?!
There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.
Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!
Details @ www.ASMB.net
There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.
Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!
Details @ www.ASMB.net
June 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Have you seen the #scientific #session #topics at the ASMB 2025 Biennial meeting #ASMB2025?!
There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.
Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!
Details @ www.ASMB.net
There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.
Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!
Details @ www.ASMB.net
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I'm honored to join the amazing community of Beckman researchers! I want to thank all the mentors and friends who helped me reach this milestone -- it's too many to list!! This funding will support our work integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials to develop new cancer immunotherapies
Congratulations to our 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees! Ten researchers to receive $6M in total science #funding for cutting-edge #research: www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/...
#BYI #beckman #science #grants #academia #chemistry #lifesciences
#BYI #beckman #science #grants #academia #chemistry #lifesciences
Beckman Foundation Announces 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees
Beckman Foundation announces 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees - 10 researchers selected to receive $6M in total science funding for cutting-edge research. #BYI
www.beckman-foundation.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm honored to join the amazing community of Beckman researchers! I want to thank all the mentors and friends who helped me reach this milestone -- it's too many to list!! This funding will support our work integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials to develop new cancer immunotherapies
Huge congrats to Brandon Vogt & friends on our on Science Advances @science.org paper!!! We leveraged hydrogel biomaterials & AI tools from Dean Ho’s lab at NUS to determine sex-dependent drug combinations that target valve myofibroblasts! 🎯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Huge congrats to Brandon Vogt & friends on our on Science Advances @science.org paper!!! We leveraged hydrogel biomaterials & AI tools from Dean Ho’s lab at NUS to determine sex-dependent drug combinations that target valve myofibroblasts! 🎯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social
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I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴
May 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴
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Huge thanks to @joann-trejo.bsky.social for delivering a powerful and inspiring keynote at the @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium. Your words lit a fire in the room and reminded us why pursuit of bold science, mentorship and community matter♥️
May 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Huge thanks to @joann-trejo.bsky.social for delivering a powerful and inspiring keynote at the @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium. Your words lit a fire in the room and reminded us why pursuit of bold science, mentorship and community matter♥️
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Join us Thursday 05/08 @ 12:30pm for another exciting #Esymposium about Similarities &Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender.
#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
April 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join us Thursday 05/08 @ 12:30pm for another exciting #Esymposium about Similarities &Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender.
#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
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Join us for the ASMB eysmposium this Thursday, we have amazing speakers lined up for the event.
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
May 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Join us for the ASMB eysmposium this Thursday, we have amazing speakers lined up for the event.
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia
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🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to:
1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)
2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps
3. Support Research Funding in FY2026
aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)
2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps
3. Support Research Funding in FY2026
aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
May 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to:
1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)
2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps
3. Support Research Funding in FY2026
aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)
2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps
3. Support Research Funding in FY2026
aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
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Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
See Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has targeted a few elite universities with its threats to freeze funding. But many more schools around the country are vulnerable.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Great work with our long time collaborator Nathan Gianneschi, PhD on a new minimally invasive treatment strategy for acute myocardial infarction with implication for other inflammatory and ischemic conditions. Our outstanding former PhD students Josh Mesfin and Kendal Carrow, PhD led the work.
This injected, protein-like polymer helps tissues heal after a #heartattack: work by @ucsandiego.bsky.social @christmanlab.bsky.social & Northwestern: today.ucsd.edu/story/this-i...
#bioengineering #heartfailure #engineeringinmedicine
#bioengineering #heartfailure #engineeringinmedicine
This Injected Protein-like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to encou...
today.ucsd.edu
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Great work with our long time collaborator Nathan Gianneschi, PhD on a new minimally invasive treatment strategy for acute myocardial infarction with implication for other inflammatory and ischemic conditions. Our outstanding former PhD students Josh Mesfin and Kendal Carrow, PhD led the work.
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Big milestone for the Cyphert lab - check out our first publication in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! This paper was led by a team of amazing grad students: Tanya, Aryak, and Yumie and undergraduates Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant. @jacobsschool.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Big milestone for the Cyphert lab - check out our first publication in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! This paper was led by a team of amazing grad students: Tanya, Aryak, and Yumie and undergraduates Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant. @jacobsschool.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Good job team America
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April 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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This framing is disingenuous. The government became dependent on universities to produce science, social science & technology. This was never a charity relationship. Government invest in what is useful to it. It’s not mysterious & govt has frankly gotten a good deal.
April 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This framing is disingenuous. The government became dependent on universities to produce science, social science & technology. This was never a charity relationship. Government invest in what is useful to it. It’s not mysterious & govt has frankly gotten a good deal.
POV: Plenary lecture at the Society For Biomaterials - definitely my best SFB selfie yet! 📸 Thank you to the SFB community for the 2025 Young Investigator Award - my lab is committed to our mission to understand sex chromosome biology & develop better treatments for all! @jacobsschool.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
POV: Plenary lecture at the Society For Biomaterials - definitely my best SFB selfie yet! 📸 Thank you to the SFB community for the 2025 Young Investigator Award - my lab is committed to our mission to understand sex chromosome biology & develop better treatments for all! @jacobsschool.bsky.social
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Terrific paper by post-doc @aclark.bsky.social in @plos.org
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪
April 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Terrific paper by post-doc @aclark.bsky.social in @plos.org
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪
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Next week, I will be at Humanities Unlocking Biomaterials' inaugural meeting and 50th Annual Meeting of Society For Biomaterials in Chicago! Come meet me to discuss your work and learn about Cell Biomaterials!
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials
April 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Next week, I will be at Humanities Unlocking Biomaterials' inaugural meeting and 50th Annual Meeting of Society For Biomaterials in Chicago! Come meet me to discuss your work and learn about Cell Biomaterials!
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials