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Keep up with what's happening in the lab! Here we highlight any significant events that have been going on from conferences, to publications, to new staff!

  • New Publication: Rieder, F., Nagy, L.E., Maher, T., Distler, J.H.W., Kramann, R., Hinz, B., and Prunotto, M. (2025): Fibrosis: cross-organ biology and pathways to development of innovative drugs. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (e-pub ahead of print) [PDF]​​

  • New Publication: Huang, S.*, Ng, N., Vaez, M., Hinz, B., Iona, L., Bozec, L. (2025): Collagen hybridizing peptides promote collagen fibril growth in vitro. ACS Applied Bio Materials 8(3): 2003-2014 [PDF]​

  • New Publication: Aubert, A., Goeres, J., Liu, A., Kao, M., Richardson, K.C., Jung, K., Hinz, B., Crawford, R.I., and Granville, D.J. (2025): Potential implications of granzyme B in keloids and hypertrophic scars through extracellular matrix remodeling and latent TGF-b activation. Frontiers in Immunology 15: 1484462 [PDF]​

  • New Publication: Hinz, B. (2025): Commentary: HIF-1 un-LOX mechanical mechanisms in psoriasis. Journal of Investigative Dermatology [PDF]

  • Farewell to Kazuki Nakayama. Hope you are having a good time and the only thing that is stressed are your tendon cells.

  • Congrats to the lab, well Boris, for another review being accepted, this time in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Still could not beat Fereshteh’s Impact Factor high score but getting close with an IF of 112.28. But as we all know, the impact matters not the impact factor.

  • Congrats to Sophia Huang from Laurent Bozec’s group. Her paper with Boris’ modest contribution has just been accepted in for publication in ACS Applied Biomaterials.

  • Congrats Michael Diao for having his abstract submitted to the Wound Healing Society Meeting in May accepted for a short talk.

  • Welcome Alison Xie! Alison comes with a BSc from Western University and has supported the lab of Dr. Karina Carneiro over the past year. She will continue to do so but also spend and equivalent of 3d/week in our lab to provide general support.

  • Farewell Lorena Immler, star undergraduate from Reutlingen University. Thanks for all your contributions to the endeavors of the Hinz lab and all the best for your future career – bright and shiny it will be. Thanks also to Elham for your first-class coaching on the project!

  • Farewell Rachel Low and thanks a lot for all the great work. Hope you had a good time sniffing into technician work at the Hinz lab. All the best for your future endeavors in Sowmya Visvanathan's lab across campus!

  • Thanks everyone who joined the cross-country skiing trip organized by the Faculty of Dentistry. I can say with confidence that all who could not go really missed something.

  • Congrats to the Hinz lab for two more papers published! One collaboration with David Granville’s team at UBC – check it out, it’s on TGF-β1 activation. And one commentary written by Boris on an article published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID) – check out the commentary and original papers, it’s on matrix stiffness.

  • Welcome to Usha Kabilan! Usha comes with a MSc in Biochemistry. But not directly. She has experience as a technical writer at Perkin Elmer and as a technician in several company settings, most recently with a Startup located in the Faculty of Dentistry.

  • Welcome to Kazuki Nakayama! Kazuki is a MSc course student in the lab of Dr. Takanori Kokubun at the Saitama Prefectural University, Japan. Kazuki is studying the mechanobiology of tendon fibroblasts (tenocytes) and aims to gain experience in our assays during a 3-months visit in the Hinzlab.

  • HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! Too soon? Still hung-over?
    Check out our latest News from last year here:     Hinzlab News 2024.

JANUARY - MARCH 2025
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