drsamzam.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ University of Kentucky | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | female reproductive and gynecological health | tissue engineering | biomaterials | cellular crosstalk | 🏳️🌈 ☕️ 🔬
👤 Joined on 01 February 2025
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@drsamzam.bsky.socialKicking 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! 🙌
Show PostSecond annual #harleylab undergrad poster fair. Over the past year, our grad students & postdocs have mentored over 20 undergrad researchers. Today we had 18 posters showing work at all stages of development. Some have worked all 4yrs. Exceptional. Mentoring is such a powerful force for good.
Show PostTissue engineered skeletal muscle typically generates force in 1 direction. We’ve developed STAMP: a method for patterning multi-oriented muscles with single fiber precision, and used it to build a tissue engineered “iris” robot capable of light-controlled pupil constriction: doi.org/10.1039/D4BM...
Show PostHuge congrats to Rayyan Gorashi on her first author Science Advances @science.org paper! She discovered the Y-linked UTY gene modulates male-specific valve myofibroblast phenotypes - both X and Y chromosomes modulate cell phenotypes! 🤯 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jacobsschool.bsky.social
Show PostI am excited to share that I've accepted a full-time position as the Director of Outreach & Engagement at the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (@aimbe-official.bsky.social)! Now more than ever, we need advocacy at the forefront of this evolving science policy landscape 📢🧪🧑🔬
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