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Lab Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

Sayantani Basu
Sayantani Basu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interest: Controlled Drug Delivery for the Development of Tissue Engineered Periosteum
Indika Chandrasiri
Indika M. Chandrasiri
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest:

Polymeric nanocarrier mediated therapeutic delivery for musculoskeletal applications

Jared Mereness
Jared Mereness, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Research Interest: The molecular mechanisms underlying erythroid maturation and development

Research Staff

Jillian Duprey-Schommer
Jillian Duprey-Schommer
Laboratory Technician
Brittany Haws
Brittany Haws
Orthopedic Surgery Resident

Graduate Students

Sandra Castillo Aguirre
Research Interest:

The role of efferocytosis in mitochondrial dysfunction and mesenchymal stromal cells decline. Tissue engineering. Stem cell biology and regenerative potential.

Chiaoyun Chen
Research Interest:

Developing high throughput screening assays to discover radioprotective drugs.

David Fraser
Research Interest: Synthetic hydrogels for periodontal tissue engineering
Kevin Ling
Research Interest:

Engineering retinal tissue mimetics using biomaterial-based approaches

Alyson March
Research Interest: Tissue engineered periosteum and cell-mediated degradation of synthetic hydrogels
Arvind Rajamani Srivatsava
Research Interest: Research interests: Hydrogel-based tissue engineering of outer retinal blood barrier
Baixue (Dorothy) Xiao
Research Interest: Nanoparticles, Osteogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells

Research Assistants

Aubrey Lanham
Aubrey Lanham
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest:

Engineering reversible alginate hydrogels for lung inflation and to improve tissue culture and biochemical assays

Befikadu Mekonnen
Befikadu Mekonnen
Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Investigating macrophage uptake of nanoparticles
Tram Nguyen
Tram Nguyen
Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest: Tuning PEG hydrogel composition to modulate periodontal ligament cell differentiation
Tiana Salomon
Tiana Salomon
Undergraduate Student