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Mouth-on-a-Chip: Modeling Oral Infection at the Gingival-Tooth Interface
Pouria and collaborators developed a "mouth-on-a-chip" model of the gingival-tooth interface to study bacterial, fungal, and viral infection. The work is now on bioRxiv.
Pouria was an Invited Speaker at the BDRP 66th Annual Meeting.
Pouria spoke at the BDRP 66th Annual Meeting symposium "The Next Generation of NAMs: Evaluating Toxicities in Reproductive Tissues" in Washington, DC.
Placenta-on-a-Chip Presented at BMES 2025
Pouria presented the lab’s Placenta-on-a-Chip research at BMES 2025. The work was recently accepted for publication in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Invited Presentation at the 2026 MPRINT Conference
Pouria presented Placenta-on-a-chip research at the 2026 MPRINT Conference, highlighting models for studying maternal fetal interactions and environmental exposure during pregnancy.
Strategic Path Forward
Advancing automation and high-throughput systems in next-generation biomedical research.
Microengineered Human Physiological Systems: Exploring the Impossible
In my research group, we aim to advance our ability to replicate the complexity of human tissues and organs by employing biologically inspired design principles alongside cutting-edge engineering strategies. Our goal is to use these advanced microphysiological systems to investigate human physiological responses in extreme and difficult-to-study environments.
