Dr. Abigail Koppes,
Principal Investigator

Sources of Funding

Processing: 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

Jessica Woolston Joins the Fray!

Jessica Woolston Joins the Fray!

Scientist in the making and dog mother of two, Jessica Woolston joined ABNEL in the Fall semester of 2023. While living in Europe, Jess reached out to Dr. Abigail Koppes after reading her work. Showing both an interest in the gut-microbiome and the initiative to...

Katelyn Neuman Defends her Thesis

Katelyn Neuman Defends her Thesis

Today on December 1st at approximately 4PM, LNNR lab member, Katelyn Neuman, successfully defended her thesis "Engineering New Strategies for Peripheral Nerve Repair: Investigating Materials, Biophysical Cues, and Cellular Compositions for Next Generation Clinical...