What a tiny, 3D gut can tell us about gastrointestinal disorders

Principal investigators of ABNEL and LNNR, Dr. Abigail Koppes and Dr. Ryan Koppes, recently made headlines on Northeastern Global News. This recognition arises from their collaborative efforts on the development of microphysiological systems aimed at investigating the roles of neurons in the small intestine.
You can read more about it in the Northeastern Global News article written by Schuyler Velasco: https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/10/09/gastrointestinal-disorders-3d-gut/
Congratulations on the PhD, Dr. Tori Duback!
Tori's terrific T cells targeted tumors so effectively that today she has earned herself a PhD and the title of "Doctor". Tori joined ABNEL back in the fall of 2022 as a Chemical Engineering Industry PhD student with Sana Biotechnology. While only at Northeastern for...
Bryan Just Keeps Winning – BioEl2025 Student Talk Award
Looking for more of a challenge, ABNEL's PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, headed to Austria to attend the BioEl2025 conference. During this event, Bryan gave a talk titled "In-situ monitoring of cellular function on-chip via automated, non-invasive luminescence sensing"...