Natasha K. Hunt

Antibiotic disruption of the gut microbiome reduces heterotopic ossification in FOP mice via an IL-1 mediated pathway.

This paper designs and synthesizes peptide-polyester conjugates that degrade in response to cell-mediated protease activity, enhancing tissue regeneration.

This paper shows that altering the gut microbiome changes bone matrix proteomics and reduces fracture toughness, with micropillar splitting as a precise method to measure these effects.