George A. Truskey

Human trilayer engineered blood vessel reveals influence of fibroblasts on disease progression in model of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria

In vitro models of vascular disease have focused primarily on the pathophysiology of smooth muscle cell (SMC) or endothelial cell (EC). Adventitial fibroblasts can contribute to disease progression, but their specific influence is not well understood in different disease contexts...

Engineered pediatric human muscle models the interferon-driven transcriptome of juvenile dermatomyositis

Abstract Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare pediatric autoimmune disease characterized by a strong type I interferon (IFN) signature in muscle. Mechanistic and therapeutic discovery has been limited by the lack of a clinically relevant disease model. To address this, we tes...