{"id":5157,"date":"2023-10-04T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2023-10-04T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:17:47","slug":"cristiane-miranda-franca-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/cristiane-miranda-franca-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiane Miranda Franca, Ph.d."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2023\/10\/Cristiane-Miranda-Franca.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2023\/10\/Cristiane-Miranda-Franca.png 300w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2023\/10\/Cristiane-Miranda-Franca-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Franca is a dentist-scientist holding a Ph.D. in Oral Pathology and post-doctoral training in Tissue Engineering and Microfluidics. She currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry and holds a position at the Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub within the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR) at the Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU). Her research journey has been consistently fortified by funding support from the NIH\/NIDCR. She operates at the interface of engineering and biology, with a focus on investigating, understanding, and potentially controlling the interplay among cells, the extracellular matrix, local immune responses, and biomaterials. During a significant portion of her post-doctoral work, she dedicated her efforts to developing organ-on-chip platforms and disease models. Under the mentorship of Dr. Bertassoni, she secured funding through an R01 Diversity Supplement to create and characterize a pioneering microfluidic model known as the &#8220;Tooth-on-a-chip.&#8221; This innovative model replicates the physiological biomaterial-dentin-pulp interface within the oral environment. To further expand her research program, Dr. Franca also worked on an NIDCR-funded project aimed at fabricating and optimizing pericyte-supported capillary on-a-chip to understand the vascular changes observed in the stiffer cancer tumoral microenvironment, offering valuable insights into the role of perivascular cells in maintaining a pro-tumorigenic milieu. Currently, Dr. Franca is funded by a K01 award, which supports her work in engineering an immunomodulatory material for dental pulp regeneration. Her objectives include utilizing tissue engineering tools to harness the body&#8217;s innate healing capacity, gaining fresh insights into how the extracellular matrix regulates cell and tissue function, developing innovative organs-on-a-chip platforms tailored for oral and craniofacial research, and nurturing the next generation of scientists and clinicians within a lab culture founded on principles of excellence, innovation, integrity, diversity, cooperation, and respect.<br>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Franca is a dentist-scientist holding a Ph.D. in Oral Pathology and post-doctoral training in Tissue Engineering and Microfluidics. She currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry and holds a position at the Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub within the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR) at the Oregon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/nidcr-trainee-symposium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}