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| May 2008 |
Dr. Donald
Freytes,
who completed his PhD dissertation research in Dr. Stephen Badylak's
lab, has taken a position as a post-doctoral
research scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic at the
Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering @Columbia University. |
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April 2008 |
BioE graduate students, Phil
Marascalco and Mohammed El-Kurdi successfully defended their PhD
dissertations. Dr. Marascalco conducted his work in Professor Marina
Kameneva’s lab. Dr. El-Kurdi performed his research in Dr. David
Vorp’s lab |
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| January 2005 |
BioE graduate student,
Erik Wolf finished his PhD in BioE. Cooper RA, Wolf E, Fitzgerald
SG, Kellerher A, Ammer W, Boninger and Cooper R. THE JOURNAL OF SPINAL
CORD MEDICINE Vol 27, pp. 468-57, 2004 |
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August 2004 |
Dr.
Wilson Chang, an MD, PhD candidate
who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in our Department of
Bioengineering in August 2004, has had the following paper accepted to the
journal Neurosurgery: “Intuitive intra-operative ultrasound
guidance using the Sonic Flashlight, a novel ultrasound display system.”
Wilson conducted his PhD work in Dr. George Stetten's lab. |
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| January 2004 |
Dr. Michael Sacks' student from Mech
E, Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Micromechanical
Simulations of Heart Valve Tissues." |
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October 2003 |
Two BioE PhD students have
successfully defended their PhD dissertations: Dr. Eunji Cheong,
"Nitric Oxide-Mediated Regulation of Ryanodine Receptor"
Adviser: Dr. Guy Salama and Dr. Wei Sun, "Biomechanical
Simulations of Heart Valve Biomaterials" Adviser: Dr. Michael Sacks
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| April 2003 |
BioE graduate
student, Mariah Hout successfully defended her PhD thesis. The
title is, "Selective Antibody Removal from Blood Plasma and Buffer Using
Hollow Fiber-Based Specific Antibody Filters." Dr. William
Federspiel is her advisor and served as the Committee chair. Other
Committee members were Drs. Allan Russell, William Wagner and Adriana
Zeevi. |
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Ron Jankowski
successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled, "Development of
a Muscle Progenitor Cell-Based Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of
Stress Urinary Incontinence." Dr. Johnny Huard served as
the Committee Chair and thesis advisor. |
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| March 2003 |
BioE MD, PhD student, Greg
Weller, successfully defended his PhD dissertation. The title of
Dr. Weller's thesis is, "Development and Characterization of Ultrasound
Contrast Microbubbles Targeted to Dysfunctional Endothelium."
Dr. William Wagner served as the principal thesis adviser. |
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| January 2003 |
Ms. Dorothy Claire Gloeckner successfully
defended her PhD dissertation on January 22, 2003. The title of her
dissertation is "Tissue Biomechanics of the Urinary Bladder Wall".
Dr. Michael Sacks was Dr. Gloeckner's adviser. |
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December 2002 |
Carl Engman successfully
defended his master's thesis entitled, "Immunoprotection of Pancreatic
Islets by Covalent Modification with PEG" . Mr. Engman performed this
work in Dr. William Wagner's lab. |
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Dr. Rory Cooper has announced
that his and BioE's former graduate student, Brad Lawrence has now
completed his PhD @ North Carolina State. Dr. Lawrence is currently
employed by IBM, Human Factors & User Centered Design, Storage Systems Group
in North Carolina. |
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September
2002 |
Dr. David Wang
(former student of Dr. David Vorp) recently defended his PhD thesis: David
H.J. Wang, Michel S. Makaroun, a Marshall W. Webster, and David A. Vorp:
"Effect of intraluminal thrombus on wall stress in patient-specific models
of abdominal aortic aneurysm." JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY 2002;36:598-604. |
