Sources of Funding
NIH NINDS R21 (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Ryan Koppes)
Bioengineer a humanized Autonomic Neurovascular Innervation on a Chip
NASA AMES NASA CASIS (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Abigail Koppes, Ryan Koppes, Jenny Zou, Roland Friedel)
Bioengineer long-lasting 3D neurovascular microphysiological system to model chronic inflammation mediated neurodegeneration
NIH NIA R21 (Role: PIs: Subhash Kulkarni/Abigail Koppes)
Developing a microphysiological system of a humanized Gut-Brain-Axis for age-associated transmissible neuropathologies
NIH NIBIB Trailblazer R21 (Role: PI: Benjamin Woolston)
Engineered Probiotics for Closed-Loop Control of Disease-Associated Gut Metabolites in Gut-On-Chip Models
$500K NSF CAREER CBET Award: 2045906 (Role: PI: Abigail Koppes)
Defining the regulators of enteric plasticity in engineered microfluidic environments
NIH Trailblazer: 1R21EB025395 (Role: PIs: Abigail Koppes/Ryan Koppes)
ENGINEERING A HUMANIZED GUT-ENTERIC-AXIS
R01 BRP: 5R01EB021908 (Role: CO-I, PIs: Rebecca Carrier/Linda Griffith)
GUMI: NEW IN VITRO PLATFORMS TO PARSE THE HUMAN GUT EPITHELIAL-MICROBIOME-IMMUNE AXIS 19IPLOI34760604
AHA Innovative Project Award: 19IPLOI34760604 (Role: CO-I, mPIs: Ryan Koppes/Guohao Dai)
BIOENGINEER AN AUTONOMIC NEUROVASCULAR SYSTEM TO EXPLORE INNERVATION OF ARTERIAL GRAFTS

Dr. Koppes Wins Tier 1 Grant
Dr. Koppes was awarded a Tier 1 Grant through Northeastern University for a proposal titled, “Biomanufactured Nerve Guidance Channels for Complex Nerve Repair.” This interdisciplinary work will be done with Dr. Adam Ekenseair, Dr. Erin Cram, and Dr. Don O’Malley, all of Northeastern University.
Marissa Receives AIChE Travel Award
Marissa Puzan received a travel award from the AIChE’s Women’s Initiatives Committee to attend the AIChE annual meeting in November and present her work on intestinal modeling.