Members | Leducq Fellows
Satyabrata Das, PhD 

Satyabrata Das, PhD (Satya) is an Assistant Professor in Dan Garry’s lab at the University of Minnesota. He has expertise as a molecular biologist, developmental biologist and stem cell biologist. His primary focus as Leducq Fellow is directed towards the engineering of exogenic organs in gene edited pigs. Specifically, he uses blastocyst complementation, iPSCs and gene editing focused on the cardiovascular lineage to engineer humanized organs in gene edited pigs.

Representative publications include:

Das S, Koyano-Nakagawa N, Gafni O, Maeng G, Singh BN, Rasmussen T, Pan X, Choi K-D, Mickelson D, Gong W, Pota P, Weaver CV, Kren S, Hanna JH, Yannopoulos D, Garry MG, Garry DJ. (2020) Generation of human endothelium in pig embryos deficient in ETV2. Nature Biotechnology, 38(3):297-302. PMID: 32094659. go to article

Gong W, Das S, Sierra-Pagan JE, Skie E, Dsouza N, Larson TA, Garry MG, Luzete-Monteiro E, Zaret KS, Garry DJ. (2022) Etv2 functions as a pioneer factor to regulate and reprogram the endothelial lineage. Nature Cell Biology, 24(5):672-684. PMID: 35550615. go to article