Aikawa-Aikawa Laboratories

Ruiz, Jessica

Medical Student

Jessica L. Ruiz is a MD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program at Harvard Medical School. She moved to Boston after completing a B.S. in Bioengineering at Rice University in 2013. Jessica joined the laboratory of Dr. Elena Aikawa in 2014 to study nucleating mechanisms of vesicle-mediated calcification in the vasculature. Jessica is continuing this work with Dr. Aikawa as a 2015-2016 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellow.

Publications

Ruiz JL, Hutcheson JD, Cardoso L, Bakhshian Nik A, Condado de Abreu A, Pham T, Buffolo F, Busatto S, Federici S, Ridolfi A, Aikawa M, Bertazzo S, Bergese P, Weinbaum S, Aikawa E

Nanoanalytical analysis of bisphosphonate-driven alterations of microcalcifications using a 3D hydrogel system and in vivo mouse model.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(14):ePub - PMID: 33795519 - PMCID: PMC8040669 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811725118

Ruiz JL, Weinbaum S, Aikawa E, Hutcheson JD

Zooming in on the genesis of atherosclerotic plaque microcalcifications.

J Physiol. 2016;594(11):2915-27 - PMID: 27040360 - PMCID: PMC4887667 - DOI: 10.1113/JP271339

Hutcheson JD, Goettsch C, Bertazzo S, Maldonado N, Ruiz JL, Goh W, Yabusaki K, Faits T, Bouten C, Franck G, Quillard T, Libby P, Aikawa M, Weinbaum S, Aikawa E

Genesis and growth of extracellular-vesicle-derived microcalcification in atherosclerotic plaques.

Nat Mater. 2016;15(3):335-43 - PMID: 26752654 - PMCID: PMC4767675 - DOI: 10.1038/nmat4519