Nayere Taebnia

Nayere Taebnia has built up her career at the crossroads of biology and engineering. She has a background in chemical and biomedical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (BSc & MSc), and Technical University of Denmark (PhD, supervisors: Prof. Thomas L. Andresen & Prof. Niels B. Larsen). Nayere is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (mentor: Prof. Volker Lauschke) in the section for Personalized Medicine and Drug Development. She enjoys working in cross-disciplinary and multicultural environments, and her research interest is developing humanized tissue models and integrated microphysiological systems (MPS) for drug development and disease modeling.

- Postdoctoral fellow – Karolinska Institutet (Feb 2022 – present)
- Bridging Postdoct Researcher – Technical University of Denmark (Sep 2021 – Jan 2022)
- Doctor of Philosophy – Technical University of Denmark (2018 – 2021)
- Master of Science – Sharif University of Technology (2012 – 2014)
- Bachelor of Science – Sharif University of Technology (2007 – 2011)

Nayere's research is centered on developing biomimetic microphysiological systems and human "avatars". She employs microbiofabrication techniques and 3D printing to develop native-like microfluidic devices, scaffolds, and cell-laden hydrogels for various biomedical applications.
Currently, she is working on combining physiologically relevant tissue models, advanced microscopy techniques, high-throughput fabrication methods, and analytical assays to acquire further insight into metabolic diseases and women's health.

Supervision of M.Sc. thesis (by Yvonne Plattner), 2024, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
* Title: Application of an organotypic microphysiological system in drug discovery screening and tissue cross-talk

Supervision of M.Sc. thesis (by Zahra Rezvani), 2020, DTU, Denmark
* Title: A nano-reinforced hydrogel carrier for targeted cell delivery
Supervision of M.Sc. thesis (by Mette Steen Toftdal), 2019, DTU, Denmark
* Title: Beta-cell assisted diabetes therapy via oxygen-releasing hydrogels
Supervision of BSc student (by Thomas B. W. Mathiassen), 2018, DTU, Denmark
* Title: A self-healable hydrogel carrier system for mending bone disorders through targeted stem cell delivery