Anastasia’s PhD research demonstrated how kidney cells grown on fractally-patterned curved and biomimetic shapes in vitro developed better structure and function than cells on standard flat petri dishes. Her shape-stimulated cells were also more responsive in toxicity testing applications.
As a Schmidt Science Fellow in Prof. Ralph Weissleder’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Anastasia worked on growing higher-fidelity patient-derived tissues, mathematically modelling their growth and exosome signaling using chaos math to discover insights on disease progression.
She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Through the course of her career, Anastasia seeks to develop and deliver better biomedical technologies for personalized medicine. She considers that patient-derived engineered tissues could one day be used to predict and therefore prevent and treat disease, to support a healthier society.