Marian Hettiaratchi
@mhhettiaratchi
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Bioengineer working on biomaterials and drug delivery 👩🏾🔬 Assistant professor at @UOKnightCampus 🦆 @GeorgiaTech and @SchulichENGG alum 🇨🇦 🇱🇰
Eugene, Oregon
Joined January 2012
I'm so excited to receive the @BMESociety Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award this year!! Thank you thank you thank you to my mentors, friends, and colleagues for their support and lab members for their dedication and hard work! 🥳
Bioengineering professor Marian Hettiaratchi received the 2024 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from @BMESociety for her research on biomaterials for controlled protein delivery. Learn how her work is advancing tissue regeneration and bone healing: https://t.co/uDme1iEC0X
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I'm honored to be a 2025 @CMBEjournal Young Innovator! Our paper "Hyaluronic Acid-Coated Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds Promote Myoblast Attachment, Alignment, and Differentiation" is open access https://t.co/u7WhIhER88 Congrats to all authors, esp. Alycia Galindo & Alyssa Chi! 🤩
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Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering - In muscle tissues, anisotropic cell alignment is essential for optimal muscle fiber development and function. Biomaterials for muscle tissue engineering must...
Congratulations to the 2025 Young Innovators! Come see their talks on Friday, October 10 at #BMES2025. Apply to become a Young Innovator next year!
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Congratulations to all the CMBE Young Innovators. I’m especially proud of @mhhettiaratchi, my incredible colleague @UOKnightCampus!
Congratulations to the 2025 Young Innovators! Come see their talks on Friday, October 10 at #BMES2025. Apply to become a Young Innovator next year!
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This year's UO iGEM team is building a histamine-responsive probiotic to help tame mast cell flares in MCAD. Help us get more students to the iGEM Jamboree in Paris this October (gifts via UO Foundation may be tax-deductible): https://t.co/8WY1w6IrIu
#iGEM #synbio
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Help University of Oregon raise $6,000 for the project: iGEM 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
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Free access link to the paper: https://t.co/Uzmf0Ej8Pu. Link the press release: https://t.co/9Wkew2sfwg. Congrats to first author Brett Pogostin (@bhpogostin) and the rest of the team, including our great collaborators!
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Rice scientists have developed a new drug delivery platform that could make it easier for patients to take their medications and may even boost drug efficacy.
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Happy to share our paper showing repetition challenges flexible control of prehensile actions under conditions of heightened visual uncertainty. Proud of, and lucky to have, superstar PhD student @csager. Also loved working with Ian Greenhouse
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Repetition-induced interference was magnified in object-use tasks under visual uncertainty but absent in visually guided reaching. Together with prior work, these findings suggest that repetition...
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Manuscript drop from the Raghavan Lab led by @ClaudiaConvo @bmentamu in @Co_Biologists @BiologyOpen : https://t.co/Ce1XS8aJJe 🧩For years we've wondered why one-time toxic exposure during combat results in drastic gut symptoms decades after initial exposure! (1/4)
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Looking forward to visiting @Rice_BIOE this week!
We are pleased to host Marian Hettiaratchi from the University of Oregon this Thursday, March 13 for the next Bioengineering Colloquium! Join us in the BRC at 12:10 to hear her speak about controlled biomaterial delivery vehicles for tissue repair. https://t.co/CUGqsRRNHy
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New preprint! We carried out the largest complementation and inhibition study for diverse homologs in a single protein family (DHFR) to date. Highlights thread follows... 1/n 🧵
Exploring Antibiotic Resistance in Diverse Homologs of the Dihydrofolate Reductase Protein Family through Broad Mutational Scanning https://t.co/LKTdPuMLr2
#biorxiv_synbio
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Rising Stars 2025! @BrianAguado Haogang Cai @JunChenLab @DengYanxiang @mhhettiaratchi @LaurelHind Guosong Hong @priscilla_hwang @NJoshiBWH @IsaacLeeLab Jiahe Li @ClaudiaLoebel @mistrigr @KarinaNakayama @hadi_nia @LabRaghavan @DrRituRaman @telomerase2 @Yichun_Wang_Lab @jaweinst
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From yeast display to affibody-conjugated hydrogels to guide angiogenesis, a wonderful scientific adventure by Rising Star @mhhettiaratchi innovating spatiotemporal cell instruction for regeneration #cmbe2025
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Congratulations to Justin Svendsen and co-authors on our newest preprint on using computational protein design to engineer affibodies that can control the release of VEGF and PDGF! Looking forward to talking about this work at @CMBE_BMES next week!
Applying computational protein design to engineer affibodies for affinity-controlled delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor 1. This study demonstrates how computational protein design can create affibodies for targeted and tunable
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We are thrilled to introduce our 2025 LatinXinBME Executive Board! A new year brings fresh goals and renewed passion to strengthen our community. Here's to another incredible year for LatinXinBME! Stay tuned for the exciting initiatives we have planned!
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Join @uoregon #KnightCampus as a Biological Shared Facilities Engineer! Help establish and manage cutting-edge bioanalysis and biofabrication tools in our state-of-the-art facilities. A unique opportunity with significant investments and a dynamic team: https://t.co/10JKcwZVcB
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PK United, a recreational soccer team founded by @uoregon Knight Campus & Human Physiology grads, wrapped up their fall season and is preparing for winter. Learn how the team connects STEM communities at UO through sports: https://t.co/89a7a0eWVc
#KnightCampus #UOSoccer #PKUnited
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On Monday, 7 new #KnightCampusBioE PhD students will share a 5-7 minute "Flash Talk" about their lab rotations. We're excited to hear from these promising scientists: https://t.co/ghMdDUffty
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Congratulations @calinplesa!!!
Congrats to Knight Campus assistant professor @calinplesa on his grant from the @MurdockTrust through its Commercialization Initiation Program! The award includes matching funds from the #KnightCampus and @UO_Research: https://t.co/xmwUxovgMn
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Manuscript drop in @MCR_AACR - does oncogenic #KRAS harness the mechanics of colon peristalsis for its own malignant gain? @abbieclev tells you exactly how giving new meaning to “we are what we eat”! 🥗🍱🥘🍿 In cahoots with Amber Stratman and @skopetz 🙌🏽
Oncogenic #KRAS Mutations Confer a Unique Mechanotransduction Response to #Peristalsis in #ColorectalCancer Cells: https://t.co/3u7GeDtQdm
@abbieclev @ClaudiaConvo @skopetz @LabRaghavan @TAMU @WUSTL @MDAndersonNews
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Honored to be part of the inaugural cohort of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Emerging Leaders! https://t.co/fU7aghgJoY So excited to learn from those shaping the future of medical and biological engineering as part of the program.
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Thank you @CMBE_BMES for this honor!! I'm excited to present our latest research that has come together with the hard work of my lab's trainees! Congrats to all the Rising Stars this year! 🎉
🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 CMBE Award Winners! We’re thrilled to celebrate the distinguished recipients of the BMES CMBE Awards at the 2025 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference! https://t.co/d9TPIxDgmv
#BMESCMBE #CMBE2025
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