Engineering what it means to breathe: CU Denver’s living lung model is changing the future of care

What if we could test treatments on a living system that actually behaves like your lungs, before a patient ever receives them? At CU Denver’s College of Engineering, Design and Computing (CEDC), that question is no longer theoretical. In the lab of biomedical engineering associate professor Chelsea Magin, researchers are building something remarkable: a lab-grown lung model that is redefining how we understand, study and ultimately treat complex lung diseases.