DaShawn joins BEAT lab
MD-PhD student DaShawn Hickman joins the Lab to pursue his PhD in the area of Evaluation of Synthetic Platelet performance in pig models of traumatic injury. Welcome, DaShawn!
Dr. Christa Pawlowski appointed as a post-doctoral research associate
Dr. Christa Pawlowski, who obtained her PhD with an NSF graduate fellowship in the Sen Gupta laboratory focused on platelet-inspired biomedical technologies, has been appointed as post-doctoral Research Associate in the lab. Christa will be focusing on translating the Synthetic Platelet technology to clinical uses in transfusion medicine, through business development and industry partnerships. To this end, Christa is involved in an NSF-funded iCorps program focused on business model development and validation.
Michael joins lab
Graduate student Michael Sun joins the BEAT Lab and will work on thrombus targeted drug delivery. Welcome, Michael!
Research paper gets published
BEAT Lab’s collaborative research on ‘Targeted killing of metastatic cells using a platelet-inspired drug delivery system’ gets published in RSC advances!
Dr. Sen Gupta named Biomaterials Education SIG chair
The Society for Biomaterials has named Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta the chair for it’s Biomaterials Education Special Interest Group. Congratulations, Dr. Sen Gupta!
http://biomaterials.org/sigs-and-committees-sigs-and-committees-overview/biomaterials-education
Maya joins lab
Hathaway Brown student Maya Razmi joins the lab to build up on Kavya Ravinchandran’s research on cardiovascular drug delivery.
Oliver joins lab
Undergraduate biology student Oliver Li, from Ohio State University, joins the BEAT Lab. He will be working in the lab for the summer of 2015. Welcome, Oliver!
Ed joins lab
BS/MS student Edward Niedoba joins the BEAT Lab to pursue his Masters degree in the area of evaluating the scale-up process development, sterilizability and long-term stability of the Synthetic Platelet technology. Welcome Ed!
Tibby joins lab
Undergraduate student Tianbi Duan joins the BEAT Lab to carry out research in metastasis-targeted drug delivery. Welcome Tibby!
Christa successfully defends her PhD dissertation
Christa Modery-Pawlowski successfully defends her PhD dissertation on Platelet-inspired biomedical technologies. Great presentation! And, more good news..she’s going to be a mom in February! Congratulations Christa!