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July 2008 |
PhD candidate,
Bryan Brown's NIH F31 Ruth L Kirschstein Pre-doctoral Fellowship
application entitled, "ECM Scaffolds and Macrophage Polarization-Induced
Tissue Remodeling," received a priority score of 115 and a percentile in
the top 1.0%. Bryan is undertaking his fellowship research in Dr. Steven
Badylak's lab. Bryan is the 2nd BioE PhD candidate in the "Badylak Lab"
to be awarded an F31 this year; Ellen Brennan has also been awarded
an NIH F31 Ruth L Kirschstein Pre-doctoral Fellowship. |
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May 2008 |
BioE graduate
student, Erinn Joyce has been awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
from the 2008-2009 Provost's Development Fund. Erinn is conducting her
dissertation research in Professor Michael Sacks' lab. |
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BioE undergraduate student, Bartholomew Bacak has been selected as a
Computational Neuroscience Research Fellow. This award is intended to
support Bartholomew's research and education in computational neuroscience
in the next year. Mr. Bacak is conducting his research in Dr. Henry
Zeringue's lab. |
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Gaurav Shukla
has been accepted into the 2008 CTSI Predoctoral Fellowship program in
Clinical and Translational Science for 2008-2009. Gaurav is conducting his
dissertation research in Professor George Stetten's lab. |
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May 2007 |
BioE
graduate students, Alicia DeFail and Tiffany Sellaro have been
awarded pre-doctoral fellowships for academic year 2007-2008 from the
Provost’s Development Fund. Alicia is working in Dr. Kacey Marra’s
lab, and Tiffany in Dr. Stephen Badylak’s lab. |
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April 2007 |
BioE graduate student’s Erdrin Azemi has been awarded a one year CNBC
IGERT fellowship starting May 1st and William Stauffer has received a
follow-on year of IGERT funding starting September 1st. Both Erdrin and
Bill are performing their research in Dr. Xinyan (Tracy) Cui's lab. |
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Three undergraduate students in the bioengineering program have received an
undergraduate research fellowship from the Center for the Neural Basis of
Cognition (CNBC). 1) Craig LeHockey (mentor - Dr. Aaron Batista),
2) Amy McCarty (mentor - Dr. Donald DeFranco), 3) Shawn Burton
(mentor - Dr. Henry Zeringue). The CNBC funded six undergraduates (3
Pitt, 3 CMU) for the next year and Bioengineering students won all three
slots from Pitt! The fellowships enable the students to participate in the
computational neuroscience program and provide financial support for one
year. In addition, they are required to take six related courses. |
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July 2006 |
BioE graduate
students, William Stauffer was awarded a one year IGERT fellowship
from CNBC starting September 1, 2006 and Erdrin Charley received a
"mini IGERT" for this July and August to learn neurophysiological recording
and stimulation techniques with Dr. Doug Weber. Both Erdrin and
William are working in Dr. Tracy Cui's lab. |
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May 2005 |
BioE PhD
candidate, David Merryman’s American Heart Association Predoctoral
Fellowship application entitled, “Effects of local stress on aortic valve
interstitial cell phenotype and resulting synthetic function,”
scored a remarkable percentile rank of
0.63%! The percentile rank is based on a
0.01% to 99.99% ranking, with the most meritorious ranked application
corresponding to the lowest percentile rank.
David will conduct this project in Dr. Michael Sacks’ lab. |
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BioE graduate student,
Brooke Cooley's NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship application entitled,
"Adaptive Postural Strategies- Impact of Aging," has been approved
for funding effective immediately. Ms. Coley is the 5th BioE graduate
student to receive a prestigious F31 award. Dr. Rakie Cham is
Brooke’s academic adviser and research mentor. |
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Joie Marhefka
a BioE PhD candidate in Dr. Marina
Kameneva’s lab, is a fellowship recipient at the 51st Annual ASAIO
Conference being held June 9th-11th in Washington, D.C. |
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March 2005 |
BioE Ph.D. candidates
Nick Perrusquia and Alexa Polk will receive Predoctoral
Fellowships for the period September, 2005 through April, 2006 under the
Provost’s Development Fund Award. Nick is completing his Ph.D. in
Professor Sanjeev Shroff’s lab and Alexa in Professor William
Wagner’s lab. |
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May 2004 |
BioE Ph.D. candidate
Tim Maul and BioE M.D., Ph.D. candidate Scott Van Epps have been
awarded two-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowships by the American Heart
Association. The title of Tim’s Fellowship award is, "Influence of
Mechanical Forces on Adult Progenitor Cells: Implications for Vascular
Tissue Engineering." The title of Scott’s Fellowship is, "Improving
the Understanding of the Role of Biomechanical Forces in Atherogenesis: A
Combined Computational and Experimental Study." Both Tim and Scott are
performing their work in Dr. David Vorp's lab |
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Three BioE
graduate students have been awarded Biomedical Engineering Fellowships to
attend the annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal
Organs (ASAIO) in June in Washington, D.C. Joie Marhefka and Phil
Marascalco from Dr. Marina Kameneva's lab and Vikram Sundararaman
from Dr. Harvey Borovetz’s lab. |
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August 2003 |
Dr. George
Stetten has been appointed to a Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellowship
effective September 1, 2003 for two years. Dean Holder states, "This
appointment is in recognition of your outstanding productivity as a
member of the faculty. Further, it reflects the strong support of your
faculty colleagues and Chairman." Dr. Stetten joins Dr. Michael
Sacks who also holds a Faculty Fellowship in the School of Engineering. |
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June 2003 |
BioE undergraduate
student, Sara Doll has been accepted to the NIMH Undergraduate
Fellowship Program in Mental Health Research for the 2003-04 academic year. |
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May 2003 |
BioE Graduate
student Thomas Payne will receive a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award
from the American Heart Association. The title of Mr. Payne's proposal
is "Muscle-Derived Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine."
The reviewers of Mr. Payne's proposal were extremely complimentary of his
graduate academic record and research plan, which is under the direction of
Dr. Leaf Huard. |
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April 2003 |
Three BioE graduate
students have been selected to receive 2003 American Society for Artificial
Internal Organs (ASAIO) Biomedical Engineering students fellowships which is
sponsored by The Whitaker Foundation. Mohammed El-Kurdi,
advisor Dr. David Vorp; Philip Marascalco, advisor Dr. Marina
Kameneva and Joie Marhefka, advisor Dr. Marina Kameneva. |
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March 2003 |
BioE MD, PhD
graduate student, Mr. Wesley Sivak, was selected to receive a
Whitaker Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The duration of the
Fellowship is three years. Mr. Sivak is working under the direction of
Dr. Eric Beckman. |
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2003 |
Daniel Debrah, an outstanding
undergraduate BioE student, has been awarded an undergraduate NIH research
fellowship effective February 1, 2003. Mr. Debrah is undertaking
research in Dr. Sanjeev Shroff's lab. Mr. Debrah is mentored
by Professor Shroff and Professor Kirk Conrad. |
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November 2002 |
Jiro Nagatomi, Research
Assistant Professor in BioE who is collaborating with Dr. Michael Sacks, has
been awarded a travel fellowship to attend the Society for Basic Urologic
Research Fall Symposium and present his paper entitled, "Spinal Cord Injury
Indices Early Changes in Urinary Bladder Wall Composition." |
