Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, the Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of Biomedical Engineering, was honored with the 2024 Eugene M. Landis Award by the Microcirculatory Society, Inc. for her lab’s research.
Established in 1969, this annual award recognizes an outstanding, active investigator in the field of microcirculation. Other esteemed microcirulationists and biomedical engineers who’ve previously received this award include: Klaus Ley, Geert Schmid-Schonbein, Rakesh K. Jain, Brian R. Duling, Shu Chien, and Y.C (Bert) Fung.
Research in the Peirce-Cottler Lab seeks to seeks to understand how microvessels, the smallest blood vessels in our bodies, grow and change over time. Dr. Peirce-Cottler and her team apply this understanding to develop therapies for growing new tissues (tissue engineering), regenerating damaged tissues (tissue regeneration), and preventing microvessel maladaptations during disease. Their research aims to address a critical bottleneck for all of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: growing new functional and sustainable microvessels that can deliver blood to the tissues that we are trying to heal, replace, and/or protect from disease.
Dr. Peirce-Cottler and her team conduct experiments and build computer models to understand the complex molecular signals and cell behaviors that cause microvessels to grow and disappear. By combining experimental studies with computational models, they can predict how microvessels will change over time and design new therapies to help them function normally, prevent disease progression, and grow properly when we need tissues to regenerate.
Read more about Dr. Peirce-Cottler’s research on the Microcirculatory Society, Inc. website.
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