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
- Human Tear Film Protein Sampling Using Soft Contact Lenses [Clinical Proteomics (Article 24)]
- Measuring Dynamic Glycosomal pH Changes in Living Trypanosoma brucei [Journal of Visualized Experiments 203:e66279]
- 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]
News
- March 13, 2024: Paper accepted in Lab on a Chip. Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Viglione from the Nordin lab and Aubri Saxton from the Van Ry Lab.
- March 13, 2024: A paper was published in Clinical Proteomics. Congratulations to Dr. Rob Roden and co-authors on this publication. We'll work to get the other soft contact lens proteomics papers published in 2024.
- 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."