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Gerecht Lab
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Vascular Tissue Engineering | Tumor Microenvironment | Polymeric Biomaterials @ Duke University | Account moderated by SG & students
Happy Fall from the Gerecht Lab! 🍁🧪 #academicsky #scisky
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy Halloween!! The Gerecht Lab’s Louvre Heist Crew stole the show at this years’ BME Department Halloween party 🦺💎
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our very first Gerecht Lab Bakeoff was a huge success!! 🧁Congratulations to winner Makenzie who made delicious rice krispies! We had a fantastic variety of entries with lots of creativity on show. #academicsky
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A full house for our October journal club! We discussed an organotypic atlas of human vascular cells 🧪🔬🫀

#scisky #academicsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Parker Esswein for winning First Place Poster Award at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! We are so proud 👏🧪 #scisky #academicsky
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We are having a great time at the Bioengineered Tissue Systems & Models Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor! PhD candidate Emily Warren presented her work on endothelial cell and pericyte crosstalk. 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🚨New Gerecht Lab Pub!🚨

Check out our latest work where we demonstrate that direct endothelial cell-pericyte contact in the retina downregulates VEGFR2 in endothelial cells, promoting barrier function 🧪 #angiogenesis #retina #scisky

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September 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Congratulations to our newest PhD Candidate, Marcos Negrete, who passed his prelim last week! He has made some incredible progress in his work on vascularized prostate cancer organoids 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Our September Journal Club! We discussed small-diameter artery grafts engineered from pluripotent stem cells #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬🫀 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
September 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We are welcoming two new undergraduate researchers this fall! Welcome to Carmen and Fernando 🧪🎉🔬 We are excited to see what they accomplish! #scisky #academicsky
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Our August Journal Club! ☀️ We discussed functional roles for senescent cells across the body #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬

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August 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Congratulations to our postdoc Yaqing who was selected as a Duke Scholar in Molecular Medicine! This nine month training program will give her hands-on experiences and shadowing in the clinic. We're so excited to hear about what she learns and how she'll apply it to her research! 🎉🧪🔬🫀 #scisky
August 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
High school student Will spent the summer with us, working with PhD student Marcos to make prostate cancer organoids, through the DukeREP Program! He won 3rd place at the final poster symposium. We are so proud of how much he learned so quickly! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are also so proud of our undergraduate, Dimitrios Owen, who has spent the summer in an REU at Wake Forest, and presented his work there at the NIDDK R25 Symposium! We're excited to have him back in the fall semester & looking forward to hearing about his summer! 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky
July 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We have had an incredible time at the Biomechanics in Vascular Biology & Disease GRC! Congrats to PhD candidate Emily Warren and postdoc Jiyeon Song for outstanding poster awards! We are so proud! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky
July 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our July Journal Club! We discussed the contribution of perivascular cells to mediating mechanical and structural changes in capillaries 🧪🫀 #academicsky #scisky www.science.org/doi/full/10....
July 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We're celebrating our newest PhD Candidate, Katherine Tang, who passed her preliminary exam last week! She has done some fantastic work with engineered arterial grafts to study atherosclerosis! 🧪🫀🔬 #scisky #academicsky
July 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A big congratulations to Parker Esswein, who passed his preliminary exam and became a PhD Candidate in May! He's made incredible progress on engineering the inner blood-retinal barrier and we are so excited for him 🧪🧑‍🚀 #scisky #academicsky
July 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are enjoying some beautiful weather here at Duke! We have a lot of exciting research to share in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled 👀 Here's to a summer of progress & fun! ☀️ #academicsky
July 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Postdoc @jennhammel.bsky.social representing the lab today at the 2025 North Carolina Postdoc Symposium at the NC Biotechnology Center. We have an incredible community of scientists here in NC! #scisky #academicsky 🧪🔬
June 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Julian Nicenboim, our new Research Assistant Professor! Julian earned his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, followed by 8 years in the biotech industry. He is interested in immune-endothelial cell crosstalk and enjoys sailing, cooking and photography #scisky 🧪
June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Our June Journal Club! We discussed an immune-infiltrated cancer spheroid Model with vascular recirculation 🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

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June 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Having an incredible time at the Duke BME Retreat! 🧪🫀🔬 @dukeubme.bsky.social #scisky #academicsky
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Congratulations to our newly hooded PhDs, Dr. Dimitris Ntekoumes and Dr. Danielle Yarbrough! So proud! 🧪🫀🎉 #scisky
May 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Our April journal club! We discussed engineered heart muscle allografts 🫀🧪🔬 #scisky #academicsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM