Media Coverage

March 2024 – Coverage of our Device paper “Transparent and conformal microcoil arrays for spatially selective neuronal activation”:

• Tufts SoE News: “Harnessing bioelectronic solutions”

September 2023 – The Tufts Daily reported on our efforts to study neuroscience and promote STEM diversity.

July 2023 – Tufts SoE News: “Timko receives NSF CAREER Award”

July 2020 – Coverage of our PNAS paper “Photo–cross-linkable, insulating silk fibroin for bioelectronics with enhanced cell affinity”:

• Tufts SoE News: “Bioelectronic scaffolding with silk fibroin”

March 2020 – Coverage of our Nano Letters paper “Heart-on-a-Chip Model with Integrated Extra- and Intracellular Bioelectronics for Monitoring Cardiac Electrophysiology under Acute Hypoxia”:

• TuftsNow, “Heart attack on a chip: scientists model conditions of ischemia on a microfluidic device”
• phys.org
• Nanotechnology World Association
• AAAS EurekAlert
• Nano Magazine

March 2020 – Akshita Rao (Honors Thesis Student and Tufts Summer Scholar) featured in Pulsar podcast by the Museum of Science: “What is a Heart on a Chip?”

August 2019 – Akshita Rao’s Summer Scholars work featured by Tufts SoE News: “Measuring the Pulse”