Bohdana Horda
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About
Bohdana Horda is pioneering the convergence of biomaterials and automation to transform drug discovery. Her research centers on engineering physiologically relevant cell culture environments—specifically hydrogels—that can be seamlessly integrated into high-throughput screening (HTS) platforms. Traditional plastic and glass culture systems, while scalable, fail to mimic native tissue, leading to poor predictive outcomes in drug development. Horda addresses this critical gap by developing robotic liquid handling automation to fabricate hydrogel-based cell culture substrates with precision and reproducibility. Her key contributions include the HYDRA platform, which overcomes the longstanding challenge of curved menisci in multiwell plates—a barrier that previously disrupted uniform cell seeding and imaging. By enabling automated, scalable hydrogel fabrication, her work bridges the gap between biomimetic organoids/organs-on-chip and the throughput demands of early-stage drug testing. Though early in her career, her papers have already garnered citations, signaling growing recognition from the tissue engineering and pharmaceutical communities. Horda’s innovations promise to make preclinical drug testing more predictive, potentially accelerating the development of safer, more effective therapies. Her work stands at the intersection of materials science, robotics, and cell biology, offering a practical path toward more human-relevant, high-throughput drug screening.
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