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d’Arbeloff Asst Prof @MIT • Neuromuscular Tissue Engineering for Medicine & Robotics • Women in STEM • 🇺🇸 via 🇮🇳 🇰🇪

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Ritu Raman

3 years

Proud of the 30th bday gift I gave myself ❤️ My book, Biofabrication @mitpress , is out today! Shares how biological materials are used for medicine, lab-grown meat, robots, & more! Also discusses the ethics, economics, & sustainability of biofabrication:

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Ritu Raman

8 months

My first time lecturing in 10-250, the most popular classroom on @MIT 's campus 😳 So happy to welcome a new class of engineers to the world of mechanics and mechanical engineering - Happy Fall to all! 🍁 @MITMechE #newPI #academia

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A few months ago… we started a lifelong collaboration between the Raman Lab at MIT and the Flynn Lab at Harvard! @raflynn5 🤍

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The two engineers who raised this engineer 🙋🏽‍♀️ finally got to see my office and lab @MIT ! So proud to bring the Raman Family to the Raman Lab, and such fun to remember the first time we were on this campus together for a college tour in 2007….! #ImmigrantStories 🥰🙏🏽

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PhD rejections from 15/16 programs, accepted by the one and only @UofIllinois . Illinois taught me to think like a scientist & trained me for my current role as a Prof @MIT . Reminder to those struggling with rejections rn - this is not a measure of your worth or your potential 💪🏽

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I love seeing people more open about struggles along the journey PhD rejections: UC San Diego Vanderbilt University Washington University in St. Louis PhD Acceptance: UC Irvine I used to be embarrassed about this but it really only takes ONE 🙌🏾 and I am thriving ✨

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Tough times teach you life is a team sport. My parents, friends, & mentors supported me through a 2-year pandemic job hunt. They are the reason I get to be Prof. Ritu Raman @MIT 🙏🏽 My lab @MITMechE will engineer the neuromuscular system to restore mobility & power robots 💪🏽🦾

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8 months

The face of a woman who woke up at 5am today because the only time the plumbers could install her brand new incubators was at 6am…. One step closer to our lab’s big move in day!!! 💪🏽 Now for some tea… 🍵 #newPI

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2 years

Sometimes I look at equations I wrote and get intimidated by myself 😂

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The face of a woman who just read *every single paper* in the “I should read this” pile of open Zotero tabs, email drafts, and phone screenshots… 😵‍💫 Inspired by all the new advancements in biofabrication, biohybrid robotics, and neuromuscular disease and ready to tackle 2024! 💪🏽

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3 years

Super grateful to be awarded the d’Arbeloff Career Development Chair Professorship @MIT ! This endowed chair gives me and my lab extra support to develop as scientific leaders while pursuing impactful research👩🏽‍🔬 @MITMechE #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #NewPI #Academia

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These two #newPI kids just got their office doors painted - guess that makes us officially professors!!! So lucky to have an awesome group of fellow new faculty @MITMechE to share these exciting milestones 🥰 @CarlosMPortela @MIT #academia

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Five year anniversary of the day I became a U.S. citizen!!! 🥰 Taking some time today to reflect on the #immigrant experience and finding a home in #Boston ❤️🙏🏽

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When it’s only 2 weeks into the semester and your lecture notes look like this…. 👀 #WelcomeToMIT #Firehose @MIT @MITMechE

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3 years

Teaching the class I struggled with as a Freshman at Cornell as a Professor at MIT is one of the warmest fuzziest feelings in the world. Goodbye summer, hello fall!!! @MIT @MITMechE #academia #phdlife

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Our lab was just awarded an @NSF #CAREER award to support research, pedagogy, and outreach on #biofabrication and the mechanics of motor control! We are excited to deepen understanding of the neuromuscular interface and enhance inclusion and diversity in biomaker spaces @MIT 💪🏽🦾

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One of the most exciting (& scariest) things I’ve had to do as a #newPI is managing the construction of a custom #biofabrication lab from scratch - stopping by the site to see our design coming to life is *thrilling*. Stay tuned for the launch of our brand new space @MIT soon!

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Oh what’s this? Just three of @MIT ’s newest profs 🥰🥰🥰 Really looking forward to kicking off faculty life with amazing new friends like @LozaTadesse & @iiabate ! @MITMechE @mit_dmse

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We started out as Simone and Ritu, then became Dr. and Dr., and now we get to be Prof. Douglas-Green and Prof. Raman. I believe this is what the kids call a “glow up” 😍💪🏽 @DrBlackBoots @MIT @GeorgiaTech

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Healing traumatic muscle injuries is a longstanding challenge in tissue engineering. Our new study in @Biomaterials_ shows that actuating optogenetic muscle grafts with light *completely restores* functional mobility in mice within 2 weeks of injury! 🧵1/3

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Ritu Raman

2 years

Big news for our lab! As part of the @DeptOfDefense Young Investigator Program, we’ve received an early career grant from the Army Research Office to support our work on biology-powered sensing and control for soft robots 🙌🏽 #NewPI #WomenInSTEM #Robotics #Biofabrication @MITMechE

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2 years

Been reading a lot of rec letters & would love to see more mentors be conscious of implicit gender & race bias in writing. It's great that someone is "nice" & "friendly", but would LOVE to hear about their technical expertise & leadership. Sharing a resource & looking for others!

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Thanks google photos for reminding me that I wore the same dress to my first research presentation @Cornell in 2010 that I did for my faculty headshot @MIT in 2021 😱 Some things never change… but sometimes our hair game gets stronger 😂

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The Raman Lab just got our very first grant!!! So thankful for support from the @MIT MCELS center that will help us study & control intercellular signaling in engineered tissues. Stay tuned for science! @MITMechE #AcademicTwitter #newPI

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Reviewing grad apps to MIT as a #newPI is so hard! My ritual is to first read my own app materials from 2012 to remind myself what it was like to apply and help me set reasonable expectations for students... Anyone have pro tips on how to approach these reviews in a fair manner?

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You know you’re mathing too hard when you hear the audible sighs of twenty tired MIT undergrads behind you… 😂 #proflife

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The Raman Lab @MIT is hiring a #postdoc interested in 3D biofabrication of multicellular systems - emphasis on neuromuscular #TissueEngineering . Job details & info on how to apply are below ⬇️ Join our dynamic team! Retweets appreciated 🥰 @MITMechE #sciencejobs #AcademicTwitter

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So excited to welcome Dr. @tamara_rossy as a postdoc in our group @MITMechE !!! Her expertise in tissue engineering & mechanobiology, developed in @alexpersat 's lab, will help us advance understanding of diseases that impact mobility. Her latest paper:

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First lab meeting of the Fall semester in the books. Feeling energized for Year 2 of the Raman Lab with our growing crew! @MITMechE #NewPI #Academia

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Our lab’s best ideas come from nature. I remember sitting by this lake daydreaming about how aquatic organisms move… thrilled that this pic's happy ending is receiving a @USNavyResearch YIP for adaptive underwater robots powered by biology!!! @MITMechE

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All dressed up to film a lecture for an online MIT course on rapid prototyping! Love how many forms of pedagogy and science communication I get to engage with in my job 🥰🙌🏽 @MITMechE is a wonderful place!!!

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In 2017, @jmigueljd and I formed a “postdoc support team” to help each other shape happy & productive postdocs in the Langer Lab. It’s 2024, and I am SO excited to see Prof. Jimenez start his lab across the river @BU_Tweets ! Officially rebranding to “ #NewPI support team”

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2 years

My New Years resolution for 2021 was to start a new job…. And now that’s a wrap on the first semester of professor life! Feeling very very very grateful to have such an exciting job and lucky to have the opportunity to keep sciencing my way into 2022 🥰🙌🏽

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Great article featuring my former boss and forever mentor. Will never forget he took the time to call and counsel me through my mid-pandemic-career-crisis despite it being the most stressful of times for the Langer Lab and Moderna 🙏🏽 Kindness = Success 🥰

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Meet the Raman Lab, v1.0 😍 Thrilled to start this journey w/Dr. Liz Calle, Angel Bu, & Naomi Lynch!!! Our goal is to restore mobility to those who have lost it after disease/trauma & to deploy bioactuators as functional components in machines. Learn more:

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The Raman Lab is 2 years old & our team has tripled in size in the past month!!! So excited to kick off the fall semester working on interesting projects spanning neuromuscular tissue engineering for medicine and robotics. Meet our team: #newPI @MITMechE

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So grateful to have our new lab honored by a Hisako Terasaki Young Innovator Award, and happy to celebrate among great mentors and leaders in the field including @NPeppas @khademh @AManbachi ! Thanks to the @TerasakiInst for an amazing event 🙏🏽

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This week in our lab meeting: an MIT grad student has some very important data to present on a year-long experiment… #science #cattitude

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Celebrating wins with my work bestie, Prof. @CarlosMPortela ! So excited we made it to the ~cover~ of MIT @techreview , sharing our vision for new materials that will change how engineers design and build. Learn more: @MITMechE @MIT #research #academia

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The sweetest words in the English language might be “I'm pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication” 🥹😭🙌🏽 Crying some #newPI happy tears! Every paper means SO MUCH for a new lab.

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My advice for young folks in STEM is *not* to focus purely on “following your passions” but think, instead, on how you can use your talents to provide a service to your community. Thanks to @mit_ilp for the chance to share my career path and research:

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it’s my 5 year bostoniversary - I’ve never had a 5 year anniversary anywhere else. taking the day to reflect on how lovely it is to feel like I am “from” somewhere 🥰

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If you like fun, action, & adventure - read @TheCurieSociety - a comic about elite undercover #WomenInSTEM who go on high stakes missions & save the world! The authors worked with real @MIT scientists (like me!) to write science so cool it’s basically science fiction 😮 #scicomm

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5 years

Super excited to be named to the @MIT @techreview #35InnovatorsUnder35 list! Thank you to the mentors + collaborators who helped me explore new scientific frontiers - I can't wait to build our #biohybrid future! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #science #STEM

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Ritu Raman’s robots are made out of both polymers and muscle tissue, and are capable of sensing their environment and recognizing temperature, pH, and mechanical pressure. “I’m a mechanical engineer...

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Saying goodbye to @DrBlackBoots as she wraps up her postdoc and kicks off her career as PROFESSOR Douglas-Green @GeorgiaTech @CoulterBME ! We’ve been on this journey together since our time as baby grad students 🥲❤️💪🏽 #newPI

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2 years

Highlight of my week = getting to see my PhD advisor for the first time since becoming a professor. So blessed to have such a kind and supportive lifelong mentor in @RashidB23819196 ! #newPI #academia #mentor @uofigrainger

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Huge congrats to Tara Sheehan, the *very first* undergrad researcher in the Raman Lab, for winning the @MITMechE John C. & Elizabeth J. Chato Award for excellence in research at the intersection of mechanical/bioengineering!!! Could. Not. Be. More. Proud. 🥹 #newPI milestone 🙌🏽

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2 years

Happy to be featured on MIT’s industrial liaison program website! Read more to learn about our research & why I hope to forge meaningful connections between our academic lab and industry in the coming years ⬇️ #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #NewPI #Academia

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BMES 2013 -> BMES 2023. Revisiting Seattle (site of my very first BMES conference as a grad student!) with a decade of good memories of MS, PhD, & postdoc life. Grateful to introduce my young lab to @BMESociety so they can start making their own memories! 🥰 #BMES2023 #newPI

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Having a weird #newPI experience of walking into my lab & seeing the space being shaped by my group when I’m not around. We have a word of the week?! And all our equipment has names?! Ex: Autoclave: Dr. Tutti -80: Ultimate Frozone Centrifuges: Mama Spin, Baby Spin, & Spin Kiddo

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Absolutely loved speaking about our lab’s work at the WORLD.MINDS meeting in Zurich this year with a multidisciplinary audience from science, business, & the arts. Also, loved learning that I make some truly ridiculous hand gestures while giving talks… @MITMechE #scicomm #newPI

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2 years

In London for a wedding… but can’t resist opportunities for science tourism! Super excited to visit the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine today to learn about their translational work in neuromuscular disease! @KCLstemcells #science #research #medicine #biotech

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10k!!!! I’m not cool enough to pretend not to be excited about this milestone!!! So grateful for the #scitwitter and #scicomm community that has offered support, advice, and relatable memes throughout my academic journey ❤️ #AcademicTwitter #WomenInSTEM

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Cells feel and respond to forces. Our platform for Magnetic Matrix Actuation ( #MagMA ) enables noninvasive mechanical stimulation of tissues. We use MagMA to program form & function muscle as a 1st demo of future apps in #mechanobiology & #robotics : 🧵

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4 years

Excited to be chosen as a Kavli Fellow and to present my work in Biohybrid Design at the @theNASEM Frontiers of #Science symposium this week! A truly special opportunity to learn about the latest in a wide range of scientific disciplines from young pioneers. #womeninscience

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When I was an undergrad I loved cars but was too intimidated to join the Formula 1 design team because I didn’t see that many girls in the machine shop. Today a student told me that the MIT Motorsports team has many women (and in leadership roles!) & I’m filled with warm fuzzies

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Baby Ritu’s biggest dream was to write a book. Proud to share that “Biofabrication” by Dr. Raman hits the shelves in stores & online Fall 2021, published by @MITpress ! This general audience book shares how engineers build w/biology for medicine, agriculture, robots & more! (1/2)

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2 years

Things you never want to hear 3 hours into lecturing: “professor, we can’t tell the difference between the way you write r and the way you write γ” 😫 gone are the days where I’m the only person that needed to understand my handwriting, alas 😭

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4 years

A lot of what I do as a woman is try to regain the confidence I had as a girl - today is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience , so do the world a favor & show a girl she can make an impact with #science ! If she can see it then she can be it. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

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I suppose getting the first rejections for papers from your lab is a special kind of #newPI milestone… trying to remember that this is always how the process works 🥺 …and of course gearing up for our next attempt 💪🏽

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An email from middle school Ritu to Dr. James Van Allen, the space scientist who discovered the Van Allen radiation belts. He responded. A nice reminder that small kind gestures can make a big impact on a young mind interested in science ☺️

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Those last minute administrative checks/edits may have given me heart palpitations but… first R01 submitted!!! Trying to remember that the milestone at this point is just ~submitting~ and not the outcome 🥹🙌🏽 #newPI

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Proud of all mentees who put in the work to submit GRFP proposals, regardless of outcome 💪🏽 And happy to celebrate @NSF Fellowships awarded to current grad student, Maheera Bawa, and former undergrad/incoming grad student, Sonika Kohli! Excited for their futures @MITMechE 🙌🏽

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1000 citations!!! Very proud of this science milestone and deeply grateful for the mentors and collaborators who helped me get here 🙌🏽❤️

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What's that sound? The sound of another patent dropping! Eeek so excited about this new issued patent on our invention of "muscle-powered biological machines" - the product of years of hard work @Illinois_Alma ! #WomenInSTEM #Patent #Innovation #WomensHistoryMonth

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Our lab celebrated #Nowruz for the first time thanks to amazing food and a great presentation from Dr. @FerdowsAfghah ! Spring is in full swing @MITMechE 🌷

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Oct 2020: attended the Rising Stars workshop @MIT for aspiring profs Oct 2021: spoke at the Rising Stars workshop @MITMechE about the transition to #NewPI life! Grateful for the year that brought me here & loved meeting a few of the nation's most talented mechanical engineers!

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2 years

Why *buy* lab equipment when you can BUILD it? Check out the amazing 3D bioprinter built by graduate students in my lab, Naomi and Angel, at the @CarnegieMellon Bioprinting workshop hosted by @RegenBio ! So excited to see what you’ll print with it @MITMechE 😍

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City inspectors just signed off on us moving into our brand new renovated lab at MIT - 2 years in the making, custom built for #biofabrication & #biohybrid #robotics !!! Just in time for our group to double in size in the next month 😳 Stay tuned for some #newPI content. @MITMechE

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So excited to be a finalist in the @MIT Faculty Founder Initiative & grateful to @snbhatia for accelerating #biotech #entrepreneurship led by women! Our lab @MITMechE is excited to explore ways our research can help preserve & restore healthy mobility 💪🏽

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MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces finalists for second competition

MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces 12 finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech.

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One of the most rewarding things about my job is seeing young people grow into amazing engineers. A highlight of this week was catching up with Ngoc Vo, a former high school mentee and current Midshipman and Mechanical Engineering student in the U.S. Naval Academy! #WomenInSTEM

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Gave a talk @johnshopkinsu 's annual #WomenInSTEM symposium about learning to be a leader… made me think about the 5 rules I’m following as I grow in my career (feedback/suggestions welcome)... (1/4) #WomenInSTEM #Leadership

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Summer 2020: mentoring high school students in a virtual STEM outreach program, led by @DrBlackBoots Fall 2023: welcoming one of our mentees as a freshman engineer @MIT ! You truly truly truly LOVE to see it 🥹 #WomenInSTEM #outreach

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Heart is full with joy, love, and support from all the amazing junior faculty at #BMES2022 . @BrianAguado @AnaMaPorras @DrErikaMoore @DrBethanyA @DrBlackBoots @SantiCorreaPhD @cathaljkearney @TomasGF90 @Irene_dLz and many more. We’re all in this #newPI life together 💪🏽

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Just got invited to speak at the 11th annual Women Empowered in STEM conference at Illinois… can’t believe it’s been that long since I helped plan the very first one! Also by a perfect coincidence, I’m wearing my most @UofIllinois dress 🧡💙 @GradSWEillinois #WomenInSTEM

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Kicking off 2022 @MIT teaching an awesome IAP workshop where everyone gets to build their own muscle-powered robots! Love having a bio-focused makerspace that enables hands-on training in biofabrication 😍 @MITMechE

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Our recent paper on using targeted actuation of optogenetic #muscle grafts to accelerate functional recovery after trauma is featured on @MIT news! Exciting learnings leveraging 10 yrs of research on #optogenetic muscle. Read the paper on @Biomaterials_ 💪🏽

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Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma

New research aims to restore mobility for those who have lost muscle through disease or trauma. Actuating grafts seem to turn on cell signals related to the growth of new blood vessels and nerves.

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3 years

Eeeek it’s my book child!!! 😱 Dropping Sept. 14th 😍 @mitpress @techreview

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Check out '35 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish)' in @Matter_CP featuring science from @AnaMaPorras , @telomerase2 , @BrianAguado , me, and many more awesome young profs! @CranfordMATTER #NewPI #AcademicTwitter #science

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Surreal immigrant moment: so wonderful to attend an @MIT dinner hosting the Indian Ambassador to the United States, surrounded by amazing mentors & role models on our campus. A great reminder of the ways in which science innovation can be a force for positive global impact 🇺🇸🇮🇳

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2 years

An evening of candid conversations with @MIT ’s leadership & senior faculty on ways to deepen 🇺🇸🇮🇳 educational, research & skill connect, particularly in STEM areas.

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2 years

Spent the weekend celebrating the #IfThenSheCanExhibit at the @smithsonian - the largest collection of statues of women! Next time you’re in DC, say hi to StatueRitu at the National Air & Space Museum, & show your support for all the amazing #WomenInSTEM honored by @ifthenshecan !

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One year anniversary of a great day 🙌🏽

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3 years

Tough times teach you life is a team sport. My parents, friends, & mentors supported me through a 2-year pandemic job hunt. They are the reason I get to be Prof. Ritu Raman @MIT 🙏🏽 My lab @MITMechE will engineer the neuromuscular system to restore mobility & power robots 💪🏽🦾

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That feeling when you place an $80k order of equipment for your new lab... I'm sure this is DEFINITELY the right decision and I've made NO mistakes at all and I don't need to go through this quote line by line another forty times... 😅 #newPI

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2 years

Is it just me, or do 100% of awesome Twitter friendships translate into awesome real life friendships?! ❤️ so great to FINALLY meet @nabsicle and chat about building great labs, teams, and cultures 😍

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3 years

you know you’re uncool when your advisor does a TikTok dance video before you do... GO BOB!!!! #RoleModel in every way 😍 Check out some amazing dance moves from the man who brought us Moderna:

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TikTok · Dr. Anna Blakney

1556 likes, 103 comments. “Unsung HERO of the pandemic: Bob Langer”

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One of the most impactful new areas of our lab @MITMechE is funded by the Aging Brain Initiative run by @DrLiHueiTsai - such fun presenting our newest results and learning from others at the Aging Brain Symposium @MIT_Picower ! Learn more: #neuroscience

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2 years

The only science thing that feels better than your experiment working is your students experiment working 🥺❤️ Brb going to shed some #newPI happy tears!!! So proud of this awesome team 🙌🏽 #science #MondayMotivation @MITMechE

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9 months

So so proud of our @MIT MSRP intern, Sonika Kohli, on a super successful summer in our lab. Please appreciate her #barbie themed poster, and her perfect gift for me… A CROCHETED MUSCLE!’! 🥹 Keep an eye out for her grad school apps this Fall - she’s the real deal! 💪🏽 @MITMechE

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Even though I wasn’t able to fly to Brazil this week to give a keynote at the SENAI institute for #innovation in #biotech … I did get to speak virtually AND hear myself translated to Portuguese in real time so I call that a win!

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Saying goodbye to our awesome summer intern, Karina Shah, whose experiment worked on the first try (what?!?!) and hello to a new grad student in our lab, Quentin Thernize! Great science, happy people, and Toscanini ice cream = an awesome summer day in our lab @MITMechE

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2 years

Love this display at the MIT COOP bookstore 😍 No greater honor than having “Biofabrication” featured alongside great books by role models like @SusanHockfield and @grok_ ! #scicomm #BookTwitter #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience @MIT @CoopMIT @mitpress

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Raman Lab bowling!!! Turns out I work with some very ambitious people who will precisely tune variables to optimize a functional outcome. Who could have predicted that… @MITMechE #NewPI #Academia

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3 years

Let in the light #HappyDiwali !!! (aka all dressed up and literally nowhere to go)

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2 years

My claim to fame is that I went to the same elementary school as @IndraNooyi 😍 Such an honor to learn from her during her visit to @MIT ! “My story is only possible in the USA 🇺🇸” 🙌🏽

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4 years

Did you know that portrayals of #WomenInSTEM are outnumbered by men 2:1? @IfThenSheCan is changing that by launching their collection today. Thousands of photos/videos of real STEM women (like me) are available for FREE in a one-stop-shop! Check it out:

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1 year

Absolutely loved my visit to the @UofMaryland Robotics Center ( @ISR_UMD ) and @UMDBIOE - fascinating post-seminar conversations and new insight from Ryan Sochol, @KuoLab , @ETubaldi , @DuttAvik , and many others! Also... this little glass guy is just the cutest honorarium ever?!

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3 years

COVID Borcester shot 💉 (No, I’m not above making lame Massachusetts jokes)

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1 year

Happy to see our lab @MITMechE featured in an @MIT_Spectrum issue on #design ! Building #robots with biological materials ( #biofabrication ) teaches us to observe design in our natural world, & build machines that dynamically adapt to changing environments:

MIT Spectrum connects friends and supporters of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to MIT’s vision, impact, and exceptional community.

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5 months

4D imaging of living tissues that twitch, rotate, and move is… *really hard*. Super excited for @DeptofDefense DURIP funding that will help our lab build imaging tools to monitor 3D tissue engineered motor control systems in real-time! 💪🏽 @MITMechE

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DOD Awards $161 Million to Universities to Purchase Equipment Supporti

The Department of Defense announced awards totaling $161 million to 281 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program.

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Ritu Raman

2 years

Note to self: if you tweet about studying the impact of exercise on muscle while not exercising yourself… your next seminar host will take you on a morning run with many steep hills! 😂 Had the BEST time seeing Zurich w/ @SimoneSchuerle 🥰 cc: @snbhatia the selfie you requested!

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Thrilled to welcome Dr. @FerdowsAfghah to our lab @MITMechE ! She brings a wealth of expertise in 3D #bioprinting that she will leverage during her #postdoc to advance #biofabrication of multicellular systems. Check out one of her many great prior papers:

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