The Christensen Lab
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African Sleeping Sickness
Building biosensors and identifying glucose uptake inhibitors as potential therapeutics
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Angiogenesis
Targeting the role of the anthrax toxin receptor CMG2 in treating cancer and eye disease
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Recent Publications
- Biocompatible High-Resolution 3D-Printed Microfluidic Devices: Integrated Cell Chemotaxis Demonstration [Micromachines 14:1589]
- Soluble ECM promotes organotypic formation in lung alveolar model [Biomaterials 283:121464]
- Capillary morphogenesis gene 2 (CMG2) mediates growth factor-induced angiogenesis by regulating endothelial cell chemotaxis [In press; Angiogenesis]
- Spatially and optically tailored 3D printing for highly miniaturized and integrated microfluidics [Nature Communications 12, 5509]
- TNK1 is a ubiquitin-binding and 14-3-3-regulated kinase that can be targeted to block tumour growth [Nature Communications 12, 5337]
- Adaptive immunity induces mutualism between commensal eukaryotes [Nature 596, 114-118]
News
- August 9, 2023: Paper accepted in Micromachines. Congratulations to Connor Roper (2nd author) for his significant contributions to the paper "Biocompatible high-resolution 3D printed microfluidic devices: integrated cell chemotaxis demonstration."
- September 20, 2022: Christensen Lab receives new NIH grant with Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital (R01HD110922; PI: Rogers), "CMG2 as a target for safe and effective treatment of endometriosis-associate pain."
- September 16, 2022: Christensen Lab receives a new NIH grant with Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital (R01EY033354, PI: Rogers), "Functional requirement of CMG2 for endothelial cell chemotaxis and resulting angiogenesis."
- March 31, 2022: Top 25 Paper in Nature Communications
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