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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

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Five Fulton Schools researchers received grants from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre to tackle medical challenges.

Michelle Jang in a lab

Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic Arizona are researching recovery methods for heart attack patients through regenerative cell therapies.

Mehdi Nikkhah

Associate Professor Mehdi Nikkhah was named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors thanks to his disease-fighting “on-a-chip” technology.

Graphic of a heart made of polygons and interconnected lines.

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

a microfluidic chip

ASU researchers chip away the mysteries of cancer metastasis

ASU researchers made a discovery of a new role that fibroblast cells play in the spread of breast cancer tumors using microfluidic tumor models.