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Ep. 270: “Microvascular Regeneration” Featuring Dr. Sara Vasconcelos
Ep. 270: “Microvascular Regeneration” Featuring Dr. Sara Vasconcelos
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Length:
80 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2024
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Podcast episode
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Dr. Sara Vasconcelos is a Senior Scientist and the John Kitson McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research at University Health Network. She is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her lab studies microvascular regeneration in cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, and are working to develop personalized patient-derived organ-chip models for drug screening and other applications. In this episode, she talks about modeling cardiac fibrosis and studying pancreatic islet vasculature. She also discusses working with microchips and with large animal models.
Released:
Jun 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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