Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Kareen Coulombe, PhD

  Associate Professor of Engineering
  Brown University
  Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• 

  Hoda Hatoum, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Michigan Technological University, Michigan, United States

Session Chair(s)

• ZW

  Zhengpeng (Jason) Wan, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Michigan Technological University
• 

  Wuqiang Zhu, MD, PhD

  Professor
  Mayo Clinic

Presentations:

• 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

  Stretch-induced remodeling of engineered human cardiac microtissues derived from patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  

  Presenting Author: Riya Verma, MSc – University of Southern California

  Primary Investigator: Megan L. McCain, PhD – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Megan Rexius, PhD – University of Southern California

  Last Author: Ram Subramanyan

  Co-Author: Antonina Maxey

  Co-Author: Madison Pierce – University of Southern California
• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM PDT

  In vitro Sex-specific Function-Structure Relationship in Neonatal Rat Cardiac Tissues
  

  Presenting Author: Mary Tran – University of California, Irvine

  Primary Investigator: Anna Grosberg – University of California, Irvine
• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM PDT

  Engineered Heart Tissue Models of Focal Fibrosis to Assess New Cardiac Therapeutics
  

  Presenting Author: Mackenzie Obenreder – University of Colorado Boulder

  Co-Author: Abhishek Dhand – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Leslie Leinwand – University of Colorado Boulder

  Last Author: Jason Burdick – University of Colorado Boulder

  Co-Author: Arianna McCarty
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT

  Engineering viscoelastic hydrogels for cardiomyocyte culture
  

  Presenting Author: Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, PhD – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Primary Investigator: Beth Pruitt, PhD – University of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA

  Last Author: Ryan Stowers – UC Santa Barbara
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

  Perfusion of human cardiac vascularized organoids
  

  Presenting Author: Oscar J. Abilez, MD, PhD – Stanford University

  Primary Investigator: Oscar J. Abilez, MD, PhD – Stanford University
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

  Arterial Grafts Targeting Atherosclerosis in Carotid Murine Model
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Tang – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Sharon Gerecht – Duke University

  Co-Author: Lisheng Zhang

  Co-Author: Neil Freedman