Holly Wobma
Holly completed an MD-PhD at Columbia University in New York during which she conducted graduate training in the lab of Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and helped co-found a cell therapy company called Immplacate. She will soon be starting (June 2019) as a pediatric resident at the Boston Combined Residency Program and is interested in developing and translating cell and gene therapies for pediatric disease.
Posts by: Holly
Here’s a (r)evolutionary idea: using stem cells to study differences in species
At the crossroad of developmental biology and tissue engineering, there is a group of scientists trying to delicately coax stem cells down a specific path. In the metaphoric sense, they are most interested in how the nature of their cells evolves over time. But what if stem cells could teach us something about evolution itself? […]
Mental constructions: a 3D printing approach to making miniature neural circuits
“You are your synapses.” [Joseph LeDoux]. I first came across this quote while working in a neurophysiology lab after my freshman year of undergraduate studies. To this day, I am amazed by its simple eloquence and the grandeur of its implications. Indeed, the idea that the essence of our experience of the world – our […]
A paper on stem cells… on paper
The last two decades have seen a number of fascinating innovations in biomaterial scaffolds development. This comes from the growing realization that 2D culture of cells can only do so much in terms of mimicking physiological niches of the body. To encourage stem cells towards a particular mature cell fate, or to mimic disease […]
You are my day, my night, and forever my spleen (?)
. For linguistics enthusiasts, you might find it curious that almost every language uses anatomical metaphors in everyday speech. For example, you may have heard the phrase: “that cost an arm and a leg” or “I’d give up a kidney to [fill in blank].” To those we love we might say, “you are my heart.” […]
Avoiding ‘wrinkles in time’: Using tissue engineered grafts to model skin aging
. This is not a blog about cosmology, nor the space-time continuum or our place in the universe. As much as I love these deep topics, today I’d like to discuss something, quite literally, more superficial: the aging of human skin. As with other organs in our body, skin undergoes many changes as we get […]
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