Photoacoustic control of iPSC-derived cardiac organoids
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Unforeseen off-target effects in clinical drug trials represent a growing expense in drug development. Biomimetic preclinical models that capture these off-target effects before human trials can maximally reduce these development costs, particularly for cardiotoxicity testing. As preclinical models, lab-grown organoids offer extremely high physiological accuracy yet exhibit high variance and complicated setup. To modulate cardiac organoid activities toward facilitating their development, this thesis developed induced-pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocyte (iPSC-CM) organoids and uses fiber optoacoustic emitters (FOEs) to photoacoustically stimulate cardiomyocyte organoids. As a platform for developing preclinical cardiac models, high-precision photoacoustic control offers a tunable, non-invasive system that offers insights into cell therapies and biomaterials to improve long-term patient outcomes.
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