Neural Microengineering Laboratory

09/22/2021

Check out the press coverage of our lab's latest work. Congrats to Dr. Kevin Pollard and his coauthors on this paper in Science Advances!

In 2019, nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid overdoses, bringing the total of number of deaths from the opioid crisis to half a million over the past 10 years, according to t

07/13/2021

Congrats to Dr. Moore for being appointed as the chair of the NIH's Bioengineering of Neural, Vision and Low Vision Technologies (BNVT) Study Section.

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01/30/2021

Check out our lab's latest work by Dr. Kevin Pollard, published in Toxicological Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfaa186
"Comparative Analysis of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in Bioengineered Sensory Nerve Tissue Distinguishes Mechanistic Differences in Early-Stage Vincristine-, Cisplatin-, and Paclitaxel-Induced Nerve Damage"

05/21/2020

Check out our latest article that was just published online in Altex!

Modeling chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy using a Nerve-on-a-chip microphysiological system Article Sidebar preprint sup Published May 7, 2020 DOI https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2001181 Main Article Content Liana Kramer AxoSim Inc., New Orleans, LA, USA Hieu T. Nguyen AxoSim Inc., New Orle...

11/20/2019

The lab is proud to announce our latest project: Helping to solve our society's opioid addiction epidemic.

A Tulane University researcher is joining more than 40 universities from across the United States in looking for ways to improve treatment of chronic pain and ultimately achieve long-term reco

10/21/2019

Congrats to Dr. Devon Bowser on the publication of her latest paper!

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09/24/2019

Congratulations to Devon Bowser for successfully defending her PhD dissertation! We're proud of you, Dr. Bowser!

09/24/2019

The group in summer 2019

07/25/2019

Congratulations to AxoSim scientists for their publication on a human Nerve-on-a-Chip. They demonstrate the first evidence of human Schwann cells myelinating human peripheral axons.

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12/05/2018

Lab alumnae Dr. Elaine Horn-Ranney and Dr. Parastoo Khoshakhlagh will be testing their work with Tympanogen on the International Space Station!

On Wednesday (Dec. 5), a cargo spaceship will bring a medical gel created by scientists at Tulane University to the International Space Station.

05/22/2018

Congratulations to (Dr.) Ash Sivakumar for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation. And to Keith Watza for defending his master's thesis! Both graduated on Saturday. We wish you both the best in your next endeavors!