Mehdi Nikkhah
Professor, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Nikkhah's laboratory is currently focused on the integration of innovative biomaterial and microscale technologies to create biomimetic model tissue constructs for regenerative medicine and disease modeling applications.
Recent stories
May 13, 2025
Five Fulton Schools researchers received grants from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre to tackle medical challenges.
June 19, 2024
Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic Arizona are researching recovery methods for heart attack patients through regenerative cell therapies.
March 7, 2023
Associate Professor Mehdi Nikkhah was named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors thanks to his disease-fighting “on-a-chip” technology.
August 17, 2020
Jaime Veldhuizen and Mehdi Nikkhah designed and validated a new heart-on-a-chip platform for use in disease modeling, drug testing and other cardiac research.
Additional stories
ASU researchers chip away the mysteries of cancer metastasis
July 8, 2019
ASU researchers made a discovery of a new role that fibroblast cells play in the spread of breast cancer tumors using microfluidic tumor models.