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Biomaterials | Biofabrication | Organoids | Stem Cell Biology
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We're delighted to share our new work out in Advanced Science, led by PhD student Yueming Liu! We develop an in vitro model of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease to study the role of mechanosignaling in disease progression. Congrats to all!

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Engineered Hydrogels for Organoid Models of Human Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by lipid accumulation and extracellular matrix stiffening. An in vitro NAFLD model is developed using engineered hydrogels (G′ ≈ 1–6 kPa) and...
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
End of the quarter means celebrating our awesome undergrads! Shout out to Hakim and Sanjana (pictured with mentors @chuerti.bsky.social and @dzhang17.bsky.social) for giving fantastic posters at the MatSci Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium! 🧑‍🔬
May 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Congratulations to the newest PhD from the Heilshorn Lab, Dr. Yueming Liu! Yueming accomplished so much in her PhD, from dynamic modulation of engineered hydrogels to developing organoid models for studying liver disease. We are so proud! 😍
May 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are thrilled to be at #SFB2025 in Chicago this week! @vanessadoulames.bsky.social will be sharing some of our recent work on a hydrogel-mediated approach for spinal cord injury. Excited to see everyone! 🤗
April 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We’re thrilled to be going to the APS Global Physics Summit this week in Anaheim! Don’t miss our talks by PhD student Diya and Prof. Heilshorn on biomaterials for 3D bioprinting and tissue modeling. 🙌 #APSSummit25 @apsphysics.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📣 We are excited to share our new paper introducing a biofabrication strategy that directly generates branched, endothelial cell-lined networks using a diffusion-based, embedded 3D bioprinting approach:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Led by Betty Cai in collaboration w/ Sungchul Shin!
February 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A bittersweet goodbye to Dr. David Kilian as we send him off to the Netherlands! David will be joining the MERLN Institute at Maastricht University to start his independent research group! 🥳 We wish him the best and of course will miss him so much 🥺🫶
January 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
📣 Excited to share our first manuscript of 2025 where we present an interpenetrating network of physically assembled collagen and covalently-crosslinked collagen, which contains *both* fibrous and amorphous #collagen networks!

Led by @luciabru.bsky.social & @chrislong42.bsky.social, check it out!
Interpenetrating networks of fibrillar and amorphous collagen promote cell spreading and hydrogel stability
Hydrogels composed of collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body, are widely used as scaffolds for tissue engineering due to their ability …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Heilshorn Lab
The biofabrication of human tissues requires a combination of engineering control and intrinsic self-assembly. In their Review, Sarah Heilshorn et al discuss how cells and organoids can be characterized as a living material and manipulated by biofabrication techniques go.nature.com/3ZJadEL
Organoid bioprinting: from cells to functional tissues - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Integrating bioprinting with organoid technology can enhance tissue engineering by improving complexity, reproducibility and scalability. This Review discusses living materials in bioprinting, current...
go.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Happy holidays from the Heilshorn Lab! Great way to end the year celebrating each other’s accomplishments together 🤗🎄☃️
December 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Heilshorn Lab
Excited to share our new review on #organoid #bioprinting in Nature Reviews Bioengineering! 🎉 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

We highlight recent advances and envision a future that integrates organoid biology and biofabrication approaches to engineer complex tissues. Hope you enjoy!

🔓: rdcu.be/d3H6u
Organoid bioprinting: from cells to functional tissues
Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Integrating bioprinting with organoid technology can enhance tissue engineering by improving complexity, reproducibility and scalability. This Review discusses...
rdcu.be
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Hi 🦋! We are a biomaterials group at Stanford interested in tissue engineering, biofabrication, and hydrogel-based therapies. And we just celebrated labsgiving! 🤗🦃
#HiSky #SciSky
November 22, 2024 at 11:17 PM