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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited for our latest work, from Huanzhu (Harper) Jiang, documenting how mechanical stress and genetics affects cardiomyocyte-cardiac fibroblast crosstalk in engineered heart muscle: doi.org/10.1063/5.03.... Check out the article and accompanying SciLight. Congrats Harper et al!

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Excited to share this preprint from Postdoctoral Fellow and future Professor Mohammadjafar (MJ) Hashemi, who used defined alginate gels to develop an iPSC-cardiomyocyte biomanufacturing platform system!

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Finally, in elegant work led by PhD student Yasaman Kargar, we leveraged our new micro-engineered heart tissue models to study desmin-related cardiomyopathy. With key contributions from our collaborator Abhinav Diwan, MD, FACC, FAHA,

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

In the second story, in a BioRxiv preprint led by PhD student alumnus Ghiska Ramahdita, we studied the impact of tensional anisotropy on fibroblast activation. We developed a second-generation version of Hydrogel Assisted STereolithographic Elastomer (HASTE) prototyping to create

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A little late, but excited to share three recent stories from the lab. In the first, co-led by lab alumnus Lavanya Aryan and PhD student Jennifer Esteves, we worked with co-senior author Stacey Rentschler, MD/PhD to study electrical conduction and calcium handling in micro-tissues fashioned either

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Congrats to our newest PhD graduate, Ghiska Ramahdita, who defended her PhD last week. Ghiska's work on tensional anisotropy sensing paved the way for some critical technical and scientific advances in the lab. Congrats Ghiska!

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Nate Huebsch @natehuebsch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Headed to SFB 2025 conference to see the latest work in our field. Excited for presentations from Ganesh Malayath, PhD, Yasaman Kargar Gaz Kooh and Huanzhu(Harper) Jiang from our lab.

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