Pitt Swanson School of Engineering Virtual Newsroom  ·  September 17, 2025 Feature on CampBioE 2.0, Dr. Shiwarski’s expanded K-12 bioengineering outreach program at Homewood’s Community Engagement Center. The 2025 program added hands-on 3D bioprinting modules, introducing students from grades 2–12 to tissue engineering and biomedical research concepts. Article Link: https://news.engineering.pitt.edu/inspiring-tomorrows-engineers/

Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering  ·  April 23, 2025 CMU highlighted advances in FRESH 3D bioprinting enabling fully collagen-based microphysiologic systems with sub-100-micron vascular channels. The work overcomes longstanding limitations of synthetic materials in organ-on-chip platforms, allowing cells to function in a native biological environment. Article Link: https://www.cmu.edu/bme/News_Events/story_archive/2025/bioprinting-tissue.html

Pitt Swanson School of Engineering Virtual Newsroom  ·  April 25, 2025 Coverage of the Shiwarski Lab’s CHIPS (Collagen High-resolution Internally Perfusable Scaffolds) platform — a 3D bioprinted collagen-based microfluidic system for engineering fully biologic, perfusable tissue constructs published in Science Advances. Article Link: https://news.engineering.pitt.edu/chips-off-the-old-block/

Carnegie Mellon University News Release  ·  By Sara Vaccar  ·  October 10, 2022 Coverage of a perspectives piece by CMU’s Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics Group examining the core technical and regulatory challenges facing 3D bioprinting, and identifying the essential milestones required to translate bioprinted tissues to clinical use. Article Link: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2022/10/18-3d-bioprinted-tissues.html  

Chemical & Engineering News  ·  By Laurel Oldach  ·  November 9, 2022 Chemical & Engineering News covered the discovery that WNK1 protein droplets — liquid-like biomolecular condensates — help cells detect and respond to osmotic stress, with Dr. Shiwarski as a key contributor to this interdisciplinary Pitt/CMU research. Article Link: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biochemistry/Protein-droplets-help-cells-respond-osmotic-stress/100/web/2022/11

UPMC Press Release  ·  By Julia O’Brien, Ph.D., R.N.  ·  October 31, 2022 Pitt and CMU researchers, including Dr. Shiwarski and collaborators from the Subramanya lab, discovered how cells sense molecular crowding and regulate volume through WNK1 protein condensates — resolving a longstanding question in cell biology with implications for kidney disease and osmotic stress...

Carnegie Mellon University News Release  ·  By Daniel Carroll  ·  December 11, 2020 Dr. Shiwarski, then a postdoctoral fellow in the Feinberg lab, co-developed a novel biosensor that reveals the mechanobiological forces shaping organ development. The sensor enables measurement of previously uncharacterized forces relevant to conditions such as hypertension and organ morphogenesis. Article Link: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2020/12/11-shape-an-organ.html

Carnegie Mellon University News Release  ·  By Daniel Carroll  ·  November 11, 2020 The Feinberg lab created the first full-sized 3D bioprinted human heart model using FRESH bioprinting and MRI data. The model realistically mimics the elasticity of cardiac tissue and sutures, providing surgeons and clinicians with a powerful new tool for surgical planning and...

Carnegie Mellon University News Release  ·  By Emily Durham  ·  August 8, 2019 CMU researchers published a landmark paper in Science detailing the FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, enabling the printing of collagen tissue scaffolds at organ scale for the first time. This work demonstrated the ability to bioprint a full-sized adult human heart model with...