Congratulations on promotions!
David Mack has been promoted to Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Alec Smith has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Biophysics
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Honors
Alec Smith Receives ISCRM IPA Award
Alec Smith has been chosen to receive an ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to study mechanisms that control mis-localization and aggregation of TDP-43 in ALS and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Sofia Jepson awarded ISCRM Fellowship
Sofia Jepson has been awarded an ISCRM Fellowship for 2025-2026. This fellowship will support Sofia’s ground-breaking work creating in vitro models of muscle spindles, the mysterious sensory end-organs that allow us to sense and correctly control the state of contraction of individual muscles.
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Advanced degrees awarded to members of the NDRG team
On Monday, August 14, Cecelia Watson successfully defended her Masters dissertation “Investigation of Neuregulin-1 Treatment in 3D engineered skeletal muscle toward Intrafusal Spindle Fiber Generation in vitro”.
On Tuesday, August 15, Saffie Mohran successfully defended his PhD dissertation “The modulation of myofibril function: How small molecules and sarcomeric mutations impact actomyosin interactions”.
Congratulations Cecelia and Saffie!
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Highly popular NDRG publication in Muscle & Nerve
The paper “Creating stem cell-derived neuromuscular junctions in vitro” published by NDRG investigators in Muscle and Nerve has been cited as among the journal’ frequently downloaded papers.
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Alec Smith’s work profiled
Alec Smith’s work is profiled in this recent article.
Developing an Integrated Neuromuscular Modeling System| ISCRM (uw.edu)
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UW “New Faculty” Profile for Alec Smith
The University of Washington has featured Alec Smith’s profile in its New Faculty Spotlight.
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David Mack Receives Grant Award
David Mack is the inaugural recipient of a new multi-year award established by Larry and Eileen Tietze for mid-career level scientists. The grant will support efforts to engineer stem cell-derived neuromuscular junctions for the purpose of studying the onset of neuromuscular diseases and testing potential therapeutics.
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ISCRM Fellows Awards to Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani, and Cecelia Watson
Three members of the NDRG team; Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani and Cecelia Watson received awards as ISCRM Fellows for fiscal year 2021/2022
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New paper from the NDRG team
Samantha Bremner and NDRG co-workers Karen Gaffney, Nathan Sniadecki, and David Mack have published a paper entitled “A Change of Heart: Human Cardiac Tissue Engineering as a Platform for Drug Development” in the journal Current Cardiology Reports.
A Change of Heart: Human Cardiac Tissue Engineering as a Platform for Drug Development
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