Prof. Brian Aguado

A flyer for AIMBE's advocacy breakfast roundtable titled "The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Research" at the 2025 American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) Biennial Meeting on Tuesday, November 18th from 7:15-8:30 AM in Baltimore, Maryland.

AIMBE is hosting a breakfast roundtable titled "The Importance of Advocacy in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Research" at the @amsocmatbio.bsky.social Meeting on 11/18!

Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE members for this important conversation on advocacy 👇

Selfie of Alberto Roca in white guayabera shirt. He is standing next to poster of LatinxInBME poster that has logo of big black "x" with "Latin" and "in BME" (in red font) each in 2 quadrants of "x" shape while remaining 2 quadrants are filled with flags from North, Central, and South American countries. Same geographic continents are pictured behind logo as background. Poster also has text "A community of Latinx biomedical engineers that connect through scholarship and friendship".

Happily attended #LatinxInBME Symposium. Has been amazing seeing this @latinxinbme.bsky.social community grow under leadership of @brianaguado.bsky.social & @anamaporras.bsky.social. This 1-day event occurs before annual BMES meeting & is inclusive welcoming all such this biochemist 😀. #LatinskySTEM

A plaque given to Jason for speaking at the 2025 LatinXinBME Symposium held in San Diego.

A LatinXinBME-branded cafecito cup.

Honored to have spoken at the 2025 @latinxinbme.bsky.social Symposium at UC San Diego!

It was a privilege to share @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy work.

I’m optimistic about the future of science with such driven scholars leading the way in biomedical research and community engagement 😊

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Step inside the brand-new @ucsandiego.bsky.social Bioengineering Instructional Lab spaces, which are ready for students this fall! Bioengineering lab courses will benefit from a larger, sleeker space, while bioengineering design projects will come to life in a cutting-edge makerspace.

🚨 AIMBE calls on the scientific community to urge Congress to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget 👇

Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.

takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...

Happy 4th bday to the #AguadoLab! Made my signature BBQ chicken and played games - Chameleon was super fun!! Thankful for this team always and everything they do! 💙

Congratulations my friend!! Inspirational!! ⭐️

Brian Aguado smiling next to a confocal microscope.

Kicking off summer celebrating my National Science Foundation CAREER Award! ☀️🔬 Your US taxpayer dollars will be invested in the #AguadoLab to learn how sex chromosomes modulate health & disease using our bioengineered cell culture platforms and educate future bioengineers about sex differences! 🙌

CRUSHING THE GAME!! Congratulations, @doctheagrif.bsky.social!! 💕

UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛

health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

Have you seen the #scientific #session #topics at the ASMB 2025 Biennial meeting #ASMB2025?!

There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.

Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!

Details @ www.ASMB.net

I'm honored to join the amazing community of Beckman researchers! I want to thank all the mentors and friends who helped me reach this milestone -- it's too many to list!! This funding will support our work integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials to develop new cancer immunotherapies

Celebrating the latest Aguado Lab publication with a Strawberry Fraisier cake! L to R smiling: Megan Chavez, co-author, Brandon Vogt, first author, and Brian Aguado, senior author/PI.

Huge congrats to Brandon Vogt & friends on our on Science Advances @science.org paper!!! We leveraged hydrogel biomaterials & AI tools from Dean Ho’s lab at NUS to determine sex-dependent drug combinations that target valve myofibroblasts! 🎯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social

Me holding a scarf that says biomedical engineering while wearing a UW-Madison branded winter hat and quarter zip

A pin that says MAD-ison Scientist

Me popping a bottle of champagne while wearing UW-Madison quarter-zip standing on a balcony in front of the Flatirons

I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴

Huge thanks to @joann-trejo.bsky.social for delivering a powerful and inspiring keynote at the @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium. Your words lit a fire in the room and reminded us why pursuit of bold science, mentorship and community matter♥️

Join us Thursday 05/08 @ 12:30pm for another exciting #Esymposium about Similarities &Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender.

#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia

Join us for the ASMB eysmposium this Thursday, we have amazing speakers lined up for the event.

REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia

A screen capture of the AIMBE advocacy webpage with 3 advocacy letters outlined in red boxes: STEM Training Pipeline, NIH & NSF Indirect Cost Caps, and FY26 Funding.

🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to:

1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)

2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps

3. Support Research Funding in FY2026

aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

See Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (Gift Article) The Trump administration has targeted a few elite universities with its threats to freeze funding. But many more schools around the country are vulnerable.

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great work with our long time collaborator Nathan Gianneschi, PhD on a new minimally invasive treatment strategy for acute myocardial infarction with implication for other inflammatory and ischemic conditions. Our outstanding former PhD students Josh Mesfin and Kendal Carrow, PhD led the work.

Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections

Big milestone for the Cyphert lab - check out our first publication in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! This paper was led by a team of amazing grad students: Tanya, Aryak, and Yumie and undergraduates Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant. @jacobsschool.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Good job team America
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This framing is disingenuous. The government became dependent on universities to produce science, social science & technology. This was never a charity relationship. Government invest in what is useful to it. It’s not mysterious & govt has frankly gotten a good deal.

POV: Plenary lecture at the Society For Biomaterials - definitely my best SFB selfie yet! 📸 Thank you to the SFB community for the 2025 Young Investigator Award - my lab is committed to our mission to understand sex chromosome biology & develop better treatments for all! @jacobsschool.bsky.social

Terrific paper by post-doc @aclark.bsky.social in @plos.org
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪

Next week, I will be at Humanities Unlocking Biomaterials' inaugural meeting and 50th Annual Meeting of Society For Biomaterials in Chicago! Come meet me to discuss your work and learn about Cell Biomaterials!
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials

A group photo of past and current AIMBE Presidents with Executive Director Dawn Beraud (rightmost) at the 2025 President's Circle Reception at The Cosmos Club.

A group photo of the 2025 AIMBE awardees during the banquet.

A group photo of the inaugural 2025 AIMBE Emerging Leaders Program cohort.

A group picture of >100 AIMBE advocates participating in our largest-ever Hill Day.

Thank you to everyone for making the #AIMBE2025 Annual Meeting a highly engaging and productive event!

Now more than ever, your scientific voices and collective advocacy are crucial as we continue these conversations back in your local communities.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Eun Ji Chung Elected as a 2025 AIMBE Fellow - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering recognized Chung for her extensive body of research in nanobiomaterials for drug delivery, diagnostics, and tissue restoration for disease...

Huge congratulations to @thechunglab.bsky.social - who has just been elected a 2025 @aimbe-official.bsky.social Fellow. viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/03...

Jennifer West, the 2025 winner of the Pierre Galetti Award from AIMBE.