Director: Jenny Munson, Ph.D.

Our recent collaborative research was published today in Nature. We were part of a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Jonathan Kipnis at the University of Virginia that included Electrical Engineers, Biomedical Engineers, Neuroscientists, and Biologists. You can read about the Munson Lab's contributions (including Kathryn Kingsmore and Chase Cornelison) in this Virginia Tech Press Release. The full article can be found via the citation below: S Da Mesquita, A Louveau, A Vaccar

This summer has been productive with three publications coming out within a month of each other! (And, all open access). First: A perspective on the translatability of our findings in tissue engineered models of glioma to development of new biomaterials-based treatment strategies. Postdoc Chase Cornelison and Jenny Munson discuss how we can use what we know in vitro to develop new therapies in vivo. Check it out here in Frontiers Materials in a special issue edited by Dr. Bre

We've had the pleasure of hosting three outstanding undergraduate students through the great programs at Virginia Tech this summer. Here's a little bit about them and what they're working on (from left to right): Gabryel Conley-Natividad is visiting us from the University of Idaho. Gabe has a background in computational fluid mechanics and at Idaho works to model the flow of cerebral spinal fluid in the spinal cord. He is working on using our microfluidics to analyze glioma c

Dr. Munson presented at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin, Ireland during an invited keynote presentation in the special session on Brain Biotransport. She presented the work of Kathryn Kingsmore and Chase Cornelison involving the measurements and correlation of interstitial fluid flow in the brain tumor microenvironment. It was a great conference full of great collaborators and great talks! There was also an outstanding event at a SnugBar in Temple Bar hosted by t