Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University/ Disease Biophysics Group
Suji Choi, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biological and Chemical Engineering at Seoul National University, South Korea in 2017. During her Ph.D. program, her research focused on developing soft, stretchable bioelectronic devices to study cardiac electrophysiology and resynchronization therapy and published papers in high-impact factor journals (Sci. Transl. Med., Nat. Nanotech.) which has over 700 citations as of this day.
Her curiosity about cardiac biology and disease led her to a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University where she began creating 3D in vitro cardiac tissue models for microphysiological systems in 2018. Combining material synthesis and engineering with an understanding of cellular biology, she aspires to create in vitro cardiac tissue models using 3D printing technology.
Her recent work focuses on developing hydrogel 3D printable inks that print macrostructural organ-level geometry and recapitulate the heart’s microstructural ECM architecture simultaneously. Resulting in vitro ventricle models recapitulating electrophysiological and anatomical structure of the cardiac tissue, mimicking the cyclic contractile motions of the heart.