Carnegie Mellon University

Abbott Lab

Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering

The Abbott lab at Carnegie Mellon University works at the interface of materials science and regenerative medicine. We investigate how the 3D microenvironment affects tissue development and disease. Our current research focuses on adipose tissue engineering strategies, silk biomaterials and non-invasive tissue assessments to study obesity and it's link to type II diabetes. For more information about what we do, check out our current research projects, publications, and outreach events. To join our team please contact us!

 


Professor Abbott is featured on "My Future Tech Podcast!" 

Recent updates

7/2024 Prof. Abbott is featured on the website "Healthcare Degree" in the piece titled: “Biomedical Engineer:Meet the Expert: Rosalyn Abbott, PhD

5/2024 Great end to the semester for the undergraduates in the lab! Theo, Jimmy, and Daniel all presented posters and Tal gave a talk at the CMU Meeting of the Minds! Check out CMU's article that featured Daniel's work! And a big congrats to Jenny for defending her senior honor thesis in Biology!  

5/2024 Prof. Abbott is invited to share the lab's work on cultivated meat in the BioFabUSA Innovator spotlight.

5/2025 Nate receives the "Krivobok-Brooks Award for Microscopy" for his image "Evaluating In Vivo Mouse Tissue Ingrowth into Silk Fibroin Scaffolds." 

5/2024 Dr. Abbott is featured in an “Ask the Expert” Interview by Morgana Moretti at Lab Manager titled “Advances in Biomaterials: Engineering the Future of Healthcare.

3/2024 Prof. Abbott is quoted in the BuiltIn article: “What is 3D-Printed Meat?

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Recent Publications

Huff LK, Amurgis CM, Kokai LE, Abbott RD. Optimization and validation of a fat-on-a-chip model for non-invasive therapeutic drug discovery. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2024 Jun 25:12:1404327.

Huff LK, Ling Z, DeBari MK, Ren X, Abbott RD. “Repurposing Decellularized Lungs to Generate Vascularized Fat.” Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Methods and Protocols. 3rd edition. Edited by Jeffrey Gimble, Bruce Bunnell, Cecilia Sanchez, and Trivia Frazier. Lab protocol Series - Methods in Molecular Biology, published by Springer Nature 2024.

Dewal RS, Yang FT, Baer LA, Vidal P, Hernandez-Saavedra D, Seculov NP, Ghosh A, Noé F, Togliatti O, Hughes L, DeBari MK, West MD, Soroko R, Sternberg H, Malik NN, Puchulu-Campanella E, Wang H, Yan P, Wolfrum C, Abbott RD, Stanford KI. Transplantation of Committed Pre-adipocytes from Brown Adipose Tissue improves Whole-body Glucose Homeostasis. iScience. 2024 Jan 17.

DeBari MK, Johnston EK, Griffin MD, Scott JV, Ilzuka E, Sun W, Webster-Wood VA, Abbott RD. A Preliminary Study on Factors That Drive Patient Variability in Human Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues. Cells 2024, 13(15), 1240.

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