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Engineering Musculoskeletal Health with Spencer Lake

Spencer Lake studies musculoskeletal soft tissue mechanics to improve patient care.

04.16.2025

McKelvey Engineering students, alumni recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Two students offered NSF fellowship; several students and alumni received honorable mentions.

04.11.2025

Matthew Bersi (right) works with a student in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Lab. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)

Bersi named 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Matthew Bersi has been recognized by the Biomedical Engineering Society as an innovative and impactful junior faculty member in bioengineering.

04.03.2025

Krashn Dwivedi is a postdoctoral research associate in Jessica Wagenseil’s lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science. (Photo: Wagenseil Lab)

American Heart Association-funded study explores influence of estrogen on aortic aneurysm progression

Krashn Dwivedi will investigate the effect of the sex hormone estrogen on thoracic aortic aneurysm development and develop patient-specific biomarkers to manage the disease.

03.31.2025

Stopping cell protrusions pictured here at the early stages of extracellular matrix formation inhibits activation of fibroblasts and unwanted fibrosis. (Image credit: Center for Engineering Mechanobiology).

The right moves to rein in fibrosis

WashU sets the stage for medical treatments via mechanical forces.

03.25.2025

Super-resolution microscopy is revealing unprecedented insight into the protein structures that underlie the stability and function of the kidney filtration system. The new grant to the Miner, Genin and Suleiman labs will transform these insights into potential targets for the treatment of kidney disease. (Photo credit: Dr. Pongpratch Puapatanakul, MD, laboratory of Jeff Miner)

Interdisciplinary team harnesses mechanobiology to combat kidney disease

Guy Genin and Jeffrey Miner at WashU collaborate to uncover mechanical forces behind incurable kidney condition.

03.18.2025

Agarwal to receive John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace

The award from ASME honors outstanding contributions to the aerospace industry.

03.13.2025

Engineering Cardiovascular Health with Jessica Wagenseil

Jessica Wagenseil combines mechanical engineering with biology to study the cardiovascular system, particularly how mechanical properties of the aorta impact disease prediction and treatment.

03.05.2025

Detailed knowledge of how cells mechanically sense their environments is crucial to understanding processes like cancer and wound healing, where groups of cells might aggregate or migrate around stiff tissues and tumors. (iStock)

How cells sense and remember their environments

Amit Pathak received a $2.2 million NIH grant to explore how epithelial cells sense their environments and acquire mechanical memories.

03.03.2025