ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes ankoppes received a 2024 Sjögren’s Foundation Pilot Research Grant for “Parsing Dysautonomia in a Dish: Neural Exposure to Exogenous Sjögren’s Patient Derived Serum.” She is developing an organ-on-a-chip to controllably study and disrupt the nervous system in the gut-brain axis environment of Sjögren’s patients typically inaccessible in vivo. Read more about her research here: che.northeastern.edu/news/investigating-the-gut-brain-axis-in-sjogrens-patients #chemeunity #nucoe #sjogrensfoundation #grant