CQB Seminar- Dr. Samira Murah

Dr. Samira Musah will serve as the next speaker for CQB on Friday, March 22, 2024

Dr. Musah received her BS in chemistry at SUNY Binghamton and  completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where her work focused on material environments for induced pluripotent stem cells.

Dr. Musah’s research focuses on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), disease mechanisms, regenerative medicine, molecular and cellular basis of human kidney development and disease, organ engineering, patient-specific disease models, biomarkers, therapeutic discovery, tissue, and organ transplantation, microphysiological systems including organs-on-chips and organoids, matrix biology, mechanotransduction, mechanobiology, and disease biophysics.