Anna is interested in understanding the interplay between in vivo chemomechanical environment and stem cell differentiation, with an ultimate goal of improving stem cell based therapies. She is currently focused on the role of mechanical factors in neural stem cell differentiation and myelin repair in neurodegenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis. Anna’s past research fields include quantum chemistry (PhD), and computational biology and biophysics (postdoctoral).

VIDEO: The professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell University and chief executive officer at Artificial Axon Labs talked about the development of artificial axons through 3D printing. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]

Recent Publications

Myelin ensheathment and drug responses of oligodendrocytes are modulated by stiffness of artificial axons

Artificial axons as a biomimetic 3D myelination platform for the discovery and validation of promyelinating compounds

Additive manufacturing of high aspect-ratio structures with self-focusing photopolymerization