Sandra Shahriar (Ph.D. candidate, BME)
"Biodegradable Polymers Containing Orthoesters and Acetals: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application"
Elli Hosokawa (Ph.D. candidate, BME) (co-advised with Dr. Ogle)
"Engineered Materials to Preserve and Enhance Cell and Tissue Therapeutics"
Poorva Halbe (Ph.D. candidate, BME) (co-advised with Dr. Ogle)
"Bioadhesive and Biofunctional Polymers for Modulating Interfacial Bio-responses"
Xiaoyu (Holly) Tian (Master's program, Plan A, BME)
"Biphasic Gels and Wafers for Medical Applications"
Sydney Haubenstricker (Master's program, Plan A, BME)
"Physicochemical Characterization of a Viscous Polymer Blend as an Injectable Drug Delivery System"
"Rheological Properties of a Drug/Polymer Nanocomposite"
Luya Wei (Master's program, Plan A, BME)
"Cellular Mechanisms of Synthetic Membranolytic Polymers"
Madeline Olsen (Undergraduate, BME)
"Rheological Characterization of Liquid Polymer - Particle Composites"
Reese Smith (Undergraduate, BME)
"Mucoadhesive Wafers for Drug Delivery"
Alumni
PhD/Master's
Marcus Flowers (Ph.D., BME, 2024)
"Endogenous and Exogenous Control of Polymers for Spatiotemporally Defined Drug Delivery"
Riddhi Vivek Kini (Master's, Pharmaceutics, 2024) (Ph.D. candidate, Pharmaceutics, UMN)
"Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Drug Delivery"
Kanica Aggarwal (Master's, BME, 2024) (Xcel Energy)
"Injectable depot formulation of analgesics using a novel hydrophobic liquid polymer"
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 (Class of ...)
Isabel Moss Magana (2026, BME)
"Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable liquid polymers for drug delivery"
Jenitta John (2026, BME)
"Antigen release kinetics of a novel liquid-polymer-formulated melanoma vaccine"
Hailey Heimkes (2025, Chemistry, summa cum laude)
"Redox-Initiated In Situ Crosslinking of an Acid-Labile Methacrylated Macromer to Form Injectable Drug Depots"
Aidan Decker (2025, BME)
"Rheological characterization of a Viscous Polymer Blend as an Injectable Drug Delivery System"
Nicole Mertens (2024) (Ph.D. program, BME, Purdue Univ.)
"Cellular Uptake of Extremely Soft Polymeric Nano and Microdroplets"
Amanda Billups (2023) (Medtronic)
"Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers for Medical Embolization"
Christopher Chen (2023) (Boston Scientific)
"Synthesis and Interfacial Properties of Liquid Polymers and Gels"
Alex Paulson (2023) (Nextern)
"Gold-plated Hydrogel Beads for Ultrasound Triggered Drug Release"
Mia Tran (2023) (Coloplast)
"Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Drug Delivery"
Amy Choi (2022) (Accenture)
"Hydrogel/nanodroplet composites"
John Liu (2021) (Creighton University Medical school)
"Synthesis and characterization of bigels for drug delivery"
Nathan Roberts (2020) (PhD candidate, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center)
"Evaluation of an oncolytic polymer in 3D tumor spheroids"
Postdoc/Visiting Scholars
Anasuya Sahoo (Postdoc, 2023) (Henkel)
"Poly(ortho esters) as drug excipients"
Sudipta Panja (Postdoc, 2020) (Assistant Professor, U. Nebraska)
"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)
Flavia Popescu (Postdoc, 2014) (Research Scientist, U of Minnesota Cancer Center)
Shiping Zhang (Visiting Scholar, 2014) (Professor, Northwest University, China)
Hailing Zhang (Visiting Scholar, 2014) (Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
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)
Lixin Liu (Visiting Scholar, 2010) (Professor, Sun Yet-sen University, China)
Lakshmi Nagarajan (Postdoc, 2009) (Bio-Techne)
Rupei Tang (Postdoc, 2009) (Professor, Anhui University, China)