Current
Marcus Flowers (Ph.D. candidate)
"3D-printable Polymers for Spatiotemporal Drug Delivery with Triggered Release"
Sandra Shahriar (Ph.D. candidate)
"Biodegradable Polymers Containing Orthoesters and Acetals: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application"
Jacob Kotzenmacher (Master's, BME)
"Microfluidc Fabrication and Degradation Behavior of Polymeric Microspheres"
Riddhi Vivek Kini (Master's, Pharmaceutics)
"Hydrogel/micro/nanodroplet Composites for Encapsulation and Release of Poorly Soluble Drugs"
Kanica Aggarwal (Master's, BME)
"Long-acting Drug Formulation based on Liquid Polymers and Microemulsions for Pain Relief"
Nicole Mertens (Undergraduate, BME)
"Cellular Uptake of Extremely Soft Polymeric Nano and Microdroplets"
Sydney Haubenstricker (Undergraduate, BME)
"Physicochemical Characterization of a Viscous Polymer Blend as an Injectable Drug Delivery System"
Alumni
PHD/MASTER'S STUDENTS
Sam Hanson (Ph.D., BME, 2021) (Boston Scientific)
"Engineering polymeric biomaterials to interface with tissues, cells, and drugs"
Kevin Ortiz-Rivera (Ph.D., BME, 2020) (AbbVie)
"Functionalized surfaces for stem cell differentiation to the hepatic lineage"
Xiao Zhong (Ph.D., BME, 2014) (Bank of America)
"Mechanistic Insight into Cationic Polymer Mediated Gene Delivery"
David Panus (Ph.D., BME, 2013) (Abbott)
"Trafficking and Efficacy of Ca1onic Polymers as DNA Vaccines and An1‐cancer Agents"
Weihang Ji (Ph.D., BME, 2013) (Beam Therapeutics)
"Synthetic Polymers with Well-defined Structures for DNA Vaccine Delivery and Cancer Therapy"
Daisy Cross (Ph.D., BME, 2012) (Cryosa Inc.)
"Biomaterial Approaches for Cell-Based Therapies"
R. Noelle Palumbo (Ph.D., BME, 2011) (Miromatrix Medical)
"Improving Polymer-Mediated DNA Vaccine Delivery"
Sun-Young Choh (Ph.D., BME, 2010) (Medtronic)
"Hyaluronic Acid Biomaterials for Cell Therapy"
Tvisha Apurva Shah (Master's, Pharmaceutics) (Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions)
"Polymer mIcroemulsions for encapsulation of poorly soluble drugs"
Leah Novik (Master's, BME, 2020) (Medtronic)
"Cellular mechanism of an oncolytic polymer"
Benjamin Kollaja (Master's, BME, 2018) (Coloplast)
"Design of an Oxygen-Delivering Porous Chitosan Scaffold Encapsulated in a Calcium Alginate Hydrogel for Treatment of Hypoxic Wounds"
Kelsey Pflepsen (Master's, BME, 2015) (InSitu Biologics)
"Encapsulation of a Perfluorocarbon Emulsion in Macroscopic Calcium Alginate Hydrogels for Oxygen Delivery to Hypoxic Wounds"
Peter Bedard (Master's, BME, 2015) (Lions Gift of Sight eye bank)
"DMEK Tissue Introducer"
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Amanda Billups (Undergraduate student) (Medtronic)
"Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers for Medical Embolization"
Christopher Chen (Undergraduate student) (Graduate school)
"Synthesis and Interfacial Properties of Liquid Polymers and Gels"
Alex Paulson (Undergraduate student) (Nextern)
"Gold-plated Hydrogel Beads for Ultrasound Triggered Drug Release"
Mia Tran (Undergraduate student) (Coloplast)
"Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Drug Delivery"
Amy Choi (Undergraduate student) (Accenture)
"Hydrogel/nanodroplet composites"
John Liu (Undergraduate student) (Creighton University Medical school)
"Synthesis and characterization of bigels for drug delivery"
Nathan Roberts (Undergraduate student) (PhD candidate, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center)
"Evaluation of an oncolytic polymer in 3D tumor spheroids"
POSTDOC/VISITING SCHOLARS
Anasuya Sahoo (Postdoc) (Henkel)
"Poly(ortho esters) as drug excipients"
Sudipta Panja (Postdoc, 2020) (U. Nebraska Medical Center)
"Synthesis and characterization of new bidegradable liquid polymers for drug delivery"
Wenjing Lin (Visiting PhD Student, 2015) (Associate Professor, Guangdong University of Technology, China)
Hongru Li (Visiting Scholar, 2015) (Lecturer, College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, China)
Shiping Zhang (Visiting Scholar, 2014) (Professor, Northwest University, China)
Guangxia Shen (Visiting Scholar, 2014) (Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Dunwan Zhu (Visiting Scholar, 2013) (Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
Xiaoze Jiang (Postdoc, 2012) (Professor, Donghua University, China)
Wenshou Wang (Postdoc, 2012) (Co-founder, Metis Therapeutics)