Samira Musah

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Samira Musah
Alma materSUNY Binghamton (BS)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical engineering
InstitutionsDuke University Pratt School of Engineering
Thesis (2012)
Doctoral advisorLaura L. Kiessling

Samira Musah is an American biomedical engineer and professor at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. She is known for her work in biomimetic systems, in particular for her work in developing an organ-on-a-chip model of the kidney glomerulus during her postdoctoral fellowship.

Education[]

Musah received her BS in chemistry at SUNY Binghamton, where she worked under Omowunmi Sadik for her undergraduate thesis.[1][2] Musah completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her work focused on material environments for induced pluripotent stem cells.[3]

Career[]

From 2014 to 2018, Musah was a Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where she completed her training between the labs of George Church and Donald E. Ingber.[4] At the Wyss Institute, she led a project to develop a functioning in vitro model glomerulus with differentiation of stem cells into mature podocytes.[5][6][7] She was honored for her interdisciplinary work in this project by a Physics World "Faces of Physics" short documentary.[8][9]

Since 2019, Musah has been an assistant professor at Duke. As a member of the Duke MEDx program, Musah holds a joint appointment between the engineering and medical programs.[10] Her laboratory focuses on understanding human kidney development and guided differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells.[11] At Duke, Musah has spoken of the value of a writing program for underrepresented faculty in which she participated.[12]

Honors and awards[]

  • 2017 Baxter Young Investigator Award[13]
  • 2020 Whitehead Scholarship in Biomedical Research[14]
  • 2020 Cell 100 inspiring Black scientists in America[15]
  • 2021 Nature Biotechnology Outstanding and Trailblazing Black Researchers[16]

References[]

  1. ^ Kikandi, Samuel N.; Musah, Samira; Lee, Kyoungyun; Hassani, John; Rajan, Shawn; Zhou, Ailing; Sadik, Omowunmi A. (2007). "Comparative Studies of Quercetin Interactions with Monophosphate Nucleotides Using UV-Vis Spectroscopy and Electrochemical Techniques". Electroanalysis. 19 (19–20): 2131–2140. doi:10.1002/elan.200703954. ISSN 1521-4109.
  2. ^ "Principal Investigator: Samira Musah, Ph.D. | Musah Lab". musahlab.pratt.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  3. ^ Derda, Ratmir; Musah, Samira; Orner, Brendan P.; Klim, Joseph R.; Li, Lingyin; Kiessling, Laura L. (2010-02-03). "High-Throughput Discovery of Synthetic Surfaces That Support Proliferation of Pluripotent Cells". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132 (4): 1289–1295. doi:10.1021/ja906089g. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 2819098. PMID 20067240.
  4. ^ "Samira Musah | IMPACT Program". Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  5. ^ Musah, Samira; Dimitrakakis, Nikolaos; Camacho, Diogo M.; Church, George M.; Ingber, Donald E. (July 2018). "Directed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature kidney podocytes and establishment of a Glomerulus Chip". Nature Protocols. 13 (7): 1662–1685. doi:10.1038/s41596-018-0007-8. ISSN 1750-2799. PMC 6701189.
  6. ^ "Futuristic organ-on-a-chip technology now seems more realistic than ever". Salon. 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  7. ^ "Kidney filtration on a chip: Here's how it could be done". Medical Design and Outsourcing. 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  8. ^ "Faces of Physics: human organs on a chip". Physics World. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  9. ^ "Celebrating International Women's Day". Physics World. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  10. ^ "MEDx Investigators". MEDx. 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  11. ^ "Engineering Stem Cells to Understand Human Tissue Development and Disease – J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering". Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  12. ^ "A Community That Writes Together". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  13. ^ "Baxter Young Investigator Award - 2017 Winners". Baxter. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  14. ^ "Whitehead Scholarship in Biomedical Research. Whitehead Foundation. | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  15. ^ Jr, Antentor O. Hinton. "100 inspiring Black scientists in America". crosstalk.cell.com. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  16. ^ "Congratulations to Dr. Samira Musah on her feature by Nature Biotechnology | Duke Black Think Tank". blackthinktank.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
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