Sophie M. Blackburn (she/her/hers)

Bioengineering PhD student, MSTP student
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington

Sophie Blackburn is an MSTP (E-19) student at the University of Washington, currently in her 3rd year of a PhD in bioengineering. She works in the Freedman lab, and her thesis project is focused on the vascularization of hPSC-derived kidney organoids. Long-term, Sophie is interested in working to make artificial organs a reality to help address the global organ shortage.

Poster(s):

• (L-460) Differentiation of Human Kidney Organoids Within a Microfluidic Chip Promotes Podocyte-Endothelial Cell Interaction
  Friday, October 13, 2023

  9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

• (B-42) Developing methods to improve vascularization of nephron progenitor cell grafts beneath the kidney capsule through the use of pro-angiogenic uniformly porous templated hydrogel scaffolds
  Thursday, October 12, 2023

  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT