Percyval Seddoh, a teaching assistant and master’s student in biomedical engineering, is studying cardiovascular tissue engineering, with an emphasis on creating microscopic representations of the heart to model issues such as diseases and aging. His research is under the guidance of assistant professor of biomedical engineering Huaxiao Yang, whose lab is working to establish the next-generation tissue engineering system for modeling and treating cardiovascular diseases. Seddoh’s graduate research specifically is focused on recreating the physiology of the human heart. In the future, he plans to become a neurosurgeon helping patients who have experienced traumatic brain injuries, strokes or anyone suffering from a rare neuronal disease.