Arun Sharma
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social
Stem cell, heart, and space biologist 🧫🫀🚀 • Associate Professor and Director, Center for Space Medicine Research at Cedars-Sinai • Host of the Stem Cell Podcast
Lab and science links:
https://www.arun-sharma.com
Lab and science links:
https://www.arun-sharma.com
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Arun Sharma
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social
· May 24
Cedars-Sinai Launches Center for Space Medicine Research
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute launched the Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research on May 22—and marked the occasion with a visit from NASA astronaut and ...
www.cedars-sinai.org
Thrilled to be the director of the new Center for Space Medicine Research at Cedars-Sinai! 🚀
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Reposted by Arun Sharma
This was a lot of fun! Thanks Daylon and @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social for being great hosts!
We have a new episode out!
Dr. Lars Velten from the Centre for Genomic Regulation talks about his research on #LineageTracing and #hematopoiesis: https://bit.ly/4gsvo5X
Dr. Lars Velten from the Centre for Genomic Regulation talks about his research on #LineageTracing and #hematopoiesis: https://bit.ly/4gsvo5X
September 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This was a lot of fun! Thanks Daylon and @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social for being great hosts!
Reposted by Arun Sharma
#OpenScience brings research to new heights. 🚀
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social and Clive Svendsen from Cedars-Sinai are using cell lines from the Allen Cell Collection to study the effects of microgravity on stem cell and organoid growth.
#OpenScienceWeek
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social and Clive Svendsen from Cedars-Sinai are using cell lines from the Allen Cell Collection to study the effects of microgravity on stem cell and organoid growth.
#OpenScienceWeek
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
#OpenScience brings research to new heights. 🚀
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social and Clive Svendsen from Cedars-Sinai are using cell lines from the Allen Cell Collection to study the effects of microgravity on stem cell and organoid growth.
#OpenScienceWeek
@arunsharmaphd.bsky.social and Clive Svendsen from Cedars-Sinai are using cell lines from the Allen Cell Collection to study the effects of microgravity on stem cell and organoid growth.
#OpenScienceWeek
Mini-hearts to study the heart! ♥️
Stem cell-derived cardiac organoids can recapitulate aspects of heart development. Sean Escopete in our lab reviews cardiac organoids in a new paper in Trends in Molecular Medicine. 📄
Read for free below:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljZO5Eb1B...
Stem cell-derived cardiac organoids can recapitulate aspects of heart development. Sean Escopete in our lab reviews cardiac organoids in a new paper in Trends in Molecular Medicine. 📄
Read for free below:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljZO5Eb1B...
September 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Mini-hearts to study the heart! ♥️
Stem cell-derived cardiac organoids can recapitulate aspects of heart development. Sean Escopete in our lab reviews cardiac organoids in a new paper in Trends in Molecular Medicine. 📄
Read for free below:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljZO5Eb1B...
Stem cell-derived cardiac organoids can recapitulate aspects of heart development. Sean Escopete in our lab reviews cardiac organoids in a new paper in Trends in Molecular Medicine. 📄
Read for free below:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljZO5Eb1B...
It’s a great night to send more science to space! 🚀
We are proud to launch our 6th stem cell science payload from Cedars-Sinai to the International Space Station. Stay tuned for the first production of human organoids in space!
Congrats to all involved. Onwards and upwards! ✨
We are proud to launch our 6th stem cell science payload from Cedars-Sinai to the International Space Station. Stay tuned for the first production of human organoids in space!
Congrats to all involved. Onwards and upwards! ✨
August 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s a great night to send more science to space! 🚀
We are proud to launch our 6th stem cell science payload from Cedars-Sinai to the International Space Station. Stay tuned for the first production of human organoids in space!
Congrats to all involved. Onwards and upwards! ✨
We are proud to launch our 6th stem cell science payload from Cedars-Sinai to the International Space Station. Stay tuned for the first production of human organoids in space!
Congrats to all involved. Onwards and upwards! ✨
Can we make 3D human tissues better in space? 🚀
On our 6th space project launching next week, we will examine if microgravity aids in the production of 3D heart and brain organoids from pluripotent stem cells.
Read more here:
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
On our 6th space project launching next week, we will examine if microgravity aids in the production of 3D heart and brain organoids from pluripotent stem cells.
Read more here:
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Cedars-Sinai Pioneering Creation of Organoids in Space
Cedars-Sinai investigators are aiming to transform stem cells into the first heart and brain organoids to be created in space. Their experiments will travel aboard a mission to the International Space...
www.cedars-sinai.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Can we make 3D human tissues better in space? 🚀
On our 6th space project launching next week, we will examine if microgravity aids in the production of 3D heart and brain organoids from pluripotent stem cells.
Read more here:
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
On our 6th space project launching next week, we will examine if microgravity aids in the production of 3D heart and brain organoids from pluripotent stem cells.
Read more here:
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Reposted by Arun Sharma
The Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research has launched with Dr. Arun Sharma @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social serving as the director for the new center. This center has the potential to bring innovative treatments for #cancer as well as other diseases!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Cedars-Sinai Launches Center for Space Medicine Research
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute launched the Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research on May 22—and marked the occasion with a visit from NASA astronaut and ...
www.cedars-sinai.org
August 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research has launched with Dr. Arun Sharma @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social serving as the director for the new center. This center has the potential to bring innovative treatments for #cancer as well as other diseases!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
The other, other best part of meetings is sharing the science and fun with the next generation!
Great representation from Sharma lab at #BCVS25. Thanks Maedeh, Jemima, and Sean for excellent posters on all things iPSCs, organoids, organ chips, and cardiotoxicity! 🫀
Great representation from Sharma lab at #BCVS25. Thanks Maedeh, Jemima, and Sean for excellent posters on all things iPSCs, organoids, organ chips, and cardiotoxicity! 🫀
July 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The other, other best part of meetings is sharing the science and fun with the next generation!
Great representation from Sharma lab at #BCVS25. Thanks Maedeh, Jemima, and Sean for excellent posters on all things iPSCs, organoids, organ chips, and cardiotoxicity! 🫀
Great representation from Sharma lab at #BCVS25. Thanks Maedeh, Jemima, and Sean for excellent posters on all things iPSCs, organoids, organ chips, and cardiotoxicity! 🫀
Catching up with @seanmwu.bsky.social lab alumni including @hanzhumd.bsky.social and Soah Lee at #BCVS2025!
Reuniting with old friends is the best part of scientific meetings, other than the science of course! 🔬
Reuniting with old friends is the best part of scientific meetings, other than the science of course! 🔬
July 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Catching up with @seanmwu.bsky.social lab alumni including @hanzhumd.bsky.social and Soah Lee at #BCVS2025!
Reuniting with old friends is the best part of scientific meetings, other than the science of course! 🔬
Reuniting with old friends is the best part of scientific meetings, other than the science of course! 🔬
Reposted by Arun Sharma
Continuing the tradition of StanfordCVI dinner reception at #bcvs2025 w great presentations from CVI alumni ArunSharma @ Cedar Sinai, Mingtao Zhao @ Cinncinati Childrens, & Instructors David Staudt & Masataka Nishiga (soon 2 be facuty @ OhioState @stanfordcvi.bsky.social @americanheart.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Continuing the tradition of StanfordCVI dinner reception at #bcvs2025 w great presentations from CVI alumni ArunSharma @ Cedar Sinai, Mingtao Zhao @ Cinncinati Childrens, & Instructors David Staudt & Masataka Nishiga (soon 2 be facuty @ OhioState @stanfordcvi.bsky.social @americanheart.bsky.social
Reposted by Arun Sharma
🛰️ @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social was just interviewed on the International Space Station National Laboratory's podcast!
Learn about his work sending cardiac stem cells to space, and how #microgravity can accelerate #biomanufacturing and #DrugDiscovery.
📍 Listen here: bit.ly/46hfAQw
Learn about his work sending cardiac stem cells to space, and how #microgravity can accelerate #biomanufacturing and #DrugDiscovery.
📍 Listen here: bit.ly/46hfAQw
New Podcast Episode: Arun Sharma on Using Space to Accelerate Stem Cell and Cardiac Research
"Between a Rocket & A Hard Space" sat down with biomedical researcher Arun Sharma to talk about stem cell research in space.
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June 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
🛰️ @arunsharmaphd.bsky.social was just interviewed on the International Space Station National Laboratory's podcast!
Learn about his work sending cardiac stem cells to space, and how #microgravity can accelerate #biomanufacturing and #DrugDiscovery.
📍 Listen here: bit.ly/46hfAQw
Learn about his work sending cardiac stem cells to space, and how #microgravity can accelerate #biomanufacturing and #DrugDiscovery.
📍 Listen here: bit.ly/46hfAQw
Grabbing dim sum at #ISSCR2025 with grad school friends from Joe Wu and @seanmwu.bsky.social labs! 🥟
Now they have labs in China, South Korea, US, and Netherlands. Making global friendships is one of the best things about science! 🌍
@mingxiagu.bsky.social
Now they have labs in China, South Korea, US, and Netherlands. Making global friendships is one of the best things about science! 🌍
@mingxiagu.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Grabbing dim sum at #ISSCR2025 with grad school friends from Joe Wu and @seanmwu.bsky.social labs! 🥟
Now they have labs in China, South Korea, US, and Netherlands. Making global friendships is one of the best things about science! 🌍
@mingxiagu.bsky.social
Now they have labs in China, South Korea, US, and Netherlands. Making global friendships is one of the best things about science! 🌍
@mingxiagu.bsky.social
Welcome to #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong!
Excited to represent @stemcellpodcast.com and @cedars-sinai.bsky.social at the biggest stem cell research meeting of the year. Stop by and say hey!
Excited to represent @stemcellpodcast.com and @cedars-sinai.bsky.social at the biggest stem cell research meeting of the year. Stop by and say hey!
June 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Welcome to #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong!
Excited to represent @stemcellpodcast.com and @cedars-sinai.bsky.social at the biggest stem cell research meeting of the year. Stop by and say hey!
Excited to represent @stemcellpodcast.com and @cedars-sinai.bsky.social at the biggest stem cell research meeting of the year. Stop by and say hey!
Thrilled to be the director of the new Center for Space Medicine Research at Cedars-Sinai! 🚀
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Cedars-Sinai Launches Center for Space Medicine Research
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute launched the Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research on May 22—and marked the occasion with a visit from NASA astronaut and ...
www.cedars-sinai.org
May 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thrilled to be the director of the new Center for Space Medicine Research at Cedars-Sinai! 🚀
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
We study the impact of spaceflight on cell function and harnessing microgravity to make unique bioproducts in space.
Come explore what we’re working on!
www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Advancing Regenerative Medicine in Space 🚀
A new review from our lab on using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for biomedical research in space.
Read for free in Current Stem Cell Reports here!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new review from our lab on using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for biomedical research in space.
Read for free in Current Stem Cell Reports here!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Advancing Regenerative Medicine in Space - Current Stem Cell Reports
Purpose of Review Space medicine research investigates the effects of microgravity on physiological systems to improve both astronaut health and develop clinical therapies for patients on Earth. Here,...
link.springer.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Advancing Regenerative Medicine in Space 🚀
A new review from our lab on using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for biomedical research in space.
Read for free in Current Stem Cell Reports here!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new review from our lab on using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for biomedical research in space.
Read for free in Current Stem Cell Reports here!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Learn more about our space biosciences research and education efforts at Cedars-Sinai! Much more to come soon. 🚀 🧫
www.cedars-sinai.org/discoveries/...
www.cedars-sinai.org/discoveries/...
Space Doctors and Stem Cell Production in Microgravity
As more people than ever before travel to outer space, Cedars-Sinai is studying the impact of microgravity on the body and producing pluripotent stem cells on the International Space Station.
www.cedars-sinai.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Learn more about our space biosciences research and education efforts at Cedars-Sinai! Much more to come soon. 🚀 🧫
www.cedars-sinai.org/discoveries/...
www.cedars-sinai.org/discoveries/...
The website for our new @cirmnews.bsky.social Organoid and Organ-Chip Shared Resources Lab is now live!
We offer training, services, and shared equipment to support stem cell researchers across California. Take a look!🔬🧫
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
We offer training, services, and shared equipment to support stem cell researchers across California. Take a look!🔬🧫
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
CIRM Organoid and Organ-Chip Shared Resources Laboratory
Explore the Organoid and Organ-Chip Shared Resources Lab at Cedars-Sinai, advancing basic research with cutting-edge tools, training and expertise.
www.cedars-sinai.edu
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The website for our new @cirmnews.bsky.social Organoid and Organ-Chip Shared Resources Lab is now live!
We offer training, services, and shared equipment to support stem cell researchers across California. Take a look!🔬🧫
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
We offer training, services, and shared equipment to support stem cell researchers across California. Take a look!🔬🧫
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a heart-shaped, stem cell-derived cardiac organoid from Sean Escopete in our lab.
Our mini-hearts beat for you! ❤️🫀
Our mini-hearts beat for you! ❤️🫀
February 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a heart-shaped, stem cell-derived cardiac organoid from Sean Escopete in our lab.
Our mini-hearts beat for you! ❤️🫀
Our mini-hearts beat for you! ❤️🫀
Moving up a notch! Honored to become an Associate Professor at Cedars-Sinai.
Huge thanks to my incredible lab team for their amazing work. Also grateful to the leadership here, especially Clive Svendsen, for believing in me. Onwards! 🚀
Huge thanks to my incredible lab team for their amazing work. Also grateful to the leadership here, especially Clive Svendsen, for believing in me. Onwards! 🚀
February 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Moving up a notch! Honored to become an Associate Professor at Cedars-Sinai.
Huge thanks to my incredible lab team for their amazing work. Also grateful to the leadership here, especially Clive Svendsen, for believing in me. Onwards! 🚀
Huge thanks to my incredible lab team for their amazing work. Also grateful to the leadership here, especially Clive Svendsen, for believing in me. Onwards! 🚀
Incredible work! A study years in the making published in Nature. I’ve been waiting for this one.
Engineered heart muscle patches from iPSC improve cardiac function in non-human primates…and are stable/show evidence for remuscularization in a human patient! Wow! ❤️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered heart muscle patches from iPSC improve cardiac function in non-human primates…and are stable/show evidence for remuscularization in a human patient! Wow! ❤️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in primates and humans - Nature
Epicardial engineered heart muscle allografts from induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes can safely and effectively remuscularize chronically failing hearts in rhesus macaques, leading ...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Incredible work! A study years in the making published in Nature. I’ve been waiting for this one.
Engineered heart muscle patches from iPSC improve cardiac function in non-human primates…and are stable/show evidence for remuscularization in a human patient! Wow! ❤️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineered heart muscle patches from iPSC improve cardiac function in non-human primates…and are stable/show evidence for remuscularization in a human patient! Wow! ❤️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks to @ucirvine.bsky.social Stem Cell for the opportunity to present our work on stem cell modeling, on Earth and in space!
Fantastic stem cell research program in Orange County. 🍊 Great to chat with many folks about organoid biology!
Fantastic stem cell research program in Orange County. 🍊 Great to chat with many folks about organoid biology!
January 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanks to @ucirvine.bsky.social Stem Cell for the opportunity to present our work on stem cell modeling, on Earth and in space!
Fantastic stem cell research program in Orange County. 🍊 Great to chat with many folks about organoid biology!
Fantastic stem cell research program in Orange County. 🍊 Great to chat with many folks about organoid biology!
Access to space is worldwide. 🌏
Awesome gift from one of our lab members who just got back from India! 🚀 🇮🇳
Awesome gift from one of our lab members who just got back from India! 🚀 🇮🇳
December 15, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Access to space is worldwide. 🌏
Awesome gift from one of our lab members who just got back from India! 🚀 🇮🇳
Awesome gift from one of our lab members who just got back from India! 🚀 🇮🇳
Hey Bluesky 🦋! I am a stem cell biologist at Cedars-Sinai. My lab uses stem cell-derived heart tissues for studying drug toxicity and modeling heart defects. We also send experiments to space to study how microgravity impacts cell biology.
Let’s connect!
🧫🫀🚀
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
Let’s connect!
🧫🫀🚀
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
November 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Hey Bluesky 🦋! I am a stem cell biologist at Cedars-Sinai. My lab uses stem cell-derived heart tissues for studying drug toxicity and modeling heart defects. We also send experiments to space to study how microgravity impacts cell biology.
Let’s connect!
🧫🫀🚀
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
Let’s connect!
🧫🫀🚀
www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-scien...
Thanks to @stemcellengineer.bsky.social for visiting us at Cedars-Sinai last week! She’s doing amazing work developing advanced kidney-on-chip systems and much more.
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thanks to @stemcellengineer.bsky.social for visiting us at Cedars-Sinai last week! She’s doing amazing work developing advanced kidney-on-chip systems and much more.
Growing stem cells in space? In off-the-shelf labware? In 3D? We did that and more! 🚀🧫
Check out our paper, “Surface tension enables iPSC culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in NPJ Microgravity!
Read free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our paper, “Surface tension enables iPSC culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in NPJ Microgravity!
Read free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 17, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Growing stem cells in space? In off-the-shelf labware? In 3D? We did that and more! 🚀🧫
Check out our paper, “Surface tension enables iPSC culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in NPJ Microgravity!
Read free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our paper, “Surface tension enables iPSC culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in NPJ Microgravity!
Read free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hello BlueSky! ☀️
November 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Hello BlueSky! ☀️