Samira Musah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Overview
The Musah Lab is interested in understanding how molecular signals and biophysical forces can function either synergistically or independently to guide organ development and physiology, and how these processes can be therapeutically harnessed to treat human disease. Given the escalating medical crisis in nephrology as growing number of patients suffer from kidney disease that can lead to organ failure, the Musah Lab focuses on engineering stem cell fate for applications in human kidney disease, extra-renal complications, and therapeutic development. Dr. Musah’s research interests include stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, molecular and cellular basis of human organ development and disease progression, organ engineering, patient-specific disease models, biomarker identification, therapeutic discovery, tissue and organ transplantation, microphysiological systems including Organ Chips (organs-on-chips) and organoids, matrix biology, mechanotransduction and disease biophysics.
Positions
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering
2019 Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor in Medicine in the School of Medicine
2019 School of Medicine
Assistant Professor in Cell Biology in the School of Medicine
2021 School of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute in the School of Medicine
2019 School of Medicine
Affiliate of the Duke Regeneration Center in the School of Medicine
2021 School of Medicine
Education
Ph.D. 2013
2013 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Publications, Grants & Awards
- Grants (7)
- Awards (23)
- Academics Articles (13)
- Book Sections (1)
- Conference Pages (1)
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
University of Michigan
International Foundation for Ethical Research
National Institutes of Health
Regents of the University of Michigan
Genentech
The George M. O'Brien Kidney Translational Core Center at the University of Michigan (P30 DK081943)
Duke University
Whitehead Foundation
Cell Press, Cell Mentor
Duke MEDx Initiative
Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative
Department of Medicine (Duke University)
Brown University
Keystone Symposia
Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Baxter International Inc.
Keystone Symposia Fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Harvard University
Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research
UNCF & Merck Foundation
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove
Nature Reviews. Molecular Cell Biology
Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove
Nature Protocols
Nature Biomedical Engineering
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society
Offices & Contact
Durham, NC
27708