Dr. Abigail Koppes-
Principal Investigator

Sources of Funding

Sjögren’s Foundation Pilot Research Award (Role: PI: Abigail Koppes)
Parsing dysautonomia in a dish: neural exposure to exogenous Sjögren’s patient derived serum


NIH NINDS R21 (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Ryan Koppes)
Bioengineer a humanized Autonomic Neurovascular Innervation on a Chip


NASA AMES NASA CASIS (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Abigail Koppes, Ryan Koppes, Jenny Zou, Roland Friedel)
Bioengineer long-lasting 3D neurovascular microphysiological system to model chronic inflammation mediated neurodegeneration


NIH NIA R21 (Role: PIs: Subhash Kulkarni/Abigail Koppes)
Developing a microphysiological system of a humanized Gut-Brain-Axis for age-associated transmissible neuropathologies


NIH NIBIB Trailblazer R21 (Role: PI: Benjamin Woolston)
Engineered Probiotics for Closed-Loop Control of Disease-Associated Gut Metabolites in Gut-On-Chip Models


$500K NSF CAREER CBET Award: 2045906 (Role: PI: Abigail Koppes)
Defining the regulators of enteric plasticity in engineered microfluidic environments


NIH Trailblazer: 1R21EB025395 (Role: PIs: Abigail Koppes/Ryan Koppes)
ENGINEERING A HUMANIZED GUT-ENTERIC-AXIS


R01 BRP: 5R01EB021908 (Role: CO-I, PIs: Rebecca Carrier/Linda Griffith)
GUMI: NEW IN VITRO PLATFORMS TO PARSE THE HUMAN GUT EPITHELIAL-MICROBIOME-IMMUNE AXIS 19IPLOI34760604


AHA Innovative Project Award: 19IPLOI34760604 (Role: CO-I, mPIs: Ryan Koppes/Guohao Dai)
BIOENGINEER AN AUTONOMIC NEUROVASCULAR SYSTEM TO EXPLORE INNERVATION OF ARTERIAL GRAFTS

ABNEL welcomes new PhD students Jessica and Adam!!

ABNEL welcomes Jessica Thompson and Adam Bindas as new PhD students.  Jessica comes from University of Iowa (M.S. Biomedical/Medical Engineering) and Adam from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (B.S. Chemical Engineering).

Minhal, Caroline, and Beth win Creative Endeavors Awards!

Congratulations to our amazing undergrads Minhal Ahmed, Caroline Ghio, and Beth Dibiase for each winning funding for their projects through Northeastern’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Award! This award provides them with ample funding to both support their research and present their results. Congrats guys!!