Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler on Alzheimer's and Diabetes, How Disease Impacts the Smallest Blood Vessels

Microvessels are a crucial part of our body’s circulatory system. They're responsible for delivering the oxygen and nutrients to every cell in your body and are often devastated by diseases like Diabetes and Alzheimer's. Dr. Peirce-Cottler develops computational models and combines them with wet lab experiments to study how tissues heal after injury and to develop therapies for inducing tissue regeneration.

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Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler the is Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, with secondary appointments in the Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Virginia (UVA). In this episode of Biomedical Frontiers, we dive into the history and future of microvascular research, the observed connection between Alzheimer's and diabetes, and the future healthcare applications of computational modeling.

Dr. Peirce-Cottler received Bachelor’s of Science degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from The Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She has published over 125 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, is a fellow in both the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows (AIMBE) and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She was awarded the UVA School of Medicine’s Robert H. Kadner Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Her courses in cell and molecular physiology and computational systems bioengineering are foundational to the BME undergraduate and graduate studies at UVA.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayn-peirce-cottler-a70993/

Check out Dr. Peirce-Cottler’s work: https://www.peircecottlerlab.com/

Recent publications from Shayn’s lab: https://www.peircecottlerlab.com/publications

Check out Dr. Shannon Barker's page: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/shannon-barker

Read about combining synthetic biology, computational modeling, and machine learning to design and build tissues: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010701

Director & Host: Dasha Tyshlek, StratCraft, Inc. www.strat-craft.com

Executive Producer: David Chen, Managing Director & Instructor of Engineering Design, UVA

Senior Producer: Hannah Moore, Associate Director, UVA Coulter

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Produced on behalf of Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research at University of Virginia https://engineering.virginia.edu/centers-institutes/coulter-center-translational-research