Bio-Inspired Engineering for Advanced Therapies
Bio-Inspired Engineering for Advanced Therapies
BEAT Lab becomes part of a collaborative grant funded by VA Merit Award program (Sen Gupta co-I, Potkay PI), to study blood compatibility of microfabricated artificial lung devices. Kyle Kovach is a VA-funded research engineer on the project who would be carrying out some experiments in the BEAT Lab. Welcome Kyle!
Madhumitha Ravikumar wraps up research at BEAT Lab and joins the VA hospital for further research endeavors. Best wishes to Madhu!
BEAT Lab receives NIH SBIR Phase I grant (Sen Gupta, co-I) to study blood compatibility of electrospun small diameter vascular grafts. IASIS Molecular (David Vachon, PI) is the industry partner.
Christa Modery receives Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) scholarship to carry out research in vascular nanomedicine during May-August 2010. Congrats Christa!
Yizhi (Stacey) Qi receives Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in BME from Fall 2010. Congrats Stacey!!
BEAT Lab receives NIH SBIR Phase I grant (Sen Gupta, co-I) to study clot-targeted drug delivery using
platelet-directed liposomes. Nanomimetics Inc. (Shuwu Wang, PI) is the industry partner.
Madhumitha Ravikumar graduates with Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. Madhu will stay on as a Research Assistant to wrap up experiments and manuscript submissions in the synthetic platelet research.
Brian Holt graduates with Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. He is poised to start his doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations Brian!
Congratulations to Kenneth Rys and Linda Zhang for obtaining their Masters (MS) in Biomedical Engineering. Best wishes to Kenneth for his next venture at Medtronic and Linda for her endeavors at University of Cincinnati.
Alyssa Master receives Medtronic Fellowship to support her first year of graduate studies. Congratulations Alyssa!