URMC / Labs / Benoit Lab / Lab Members Lab Members Postdoctoral ScholarsSayantani Basu, Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateResearch Interest: Controlled Drug Delivery for the Development of Tissue Engineered PeriosteumIndika M. ChandrasiriPostdoctoral FellowResearch Interest: Polymeric nanocarrier mediated therapeutic delivery for musculoskeletal applications Jared Mereness, Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateResearch Interest: The molecular mechanisms underlying erythroid maturation and developmentResearch StaffJillian Duprey-SchommerLaboratory TechnicianBrittany HawsOrthopedic Surgery ResidentGraduate StudentsSandra H. Castillo AguirreBME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: The role of efferocytosis in mitochondrial dysfunction and mesenchymal stromal cells decline. Tissue engineering. Stem cell biology and regenerative potential.Chiaoyun ChenBME - Biomedical Engineering M.S. ProgramResearch Interest: Developing high throughput screening assays to discover radioprotective drugs. David Robert Fraser, DDSTBS - Translational Biomedical Science Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: Synthetic hydrogels for periodontal tissue engineeringKevin C. LingBME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: Engineering retinal tissue mimetics using biomaterial-based approaches Alyson MarchBME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: Tissue engineered periosteum and cell-mediated degradation of synthetic hydrogelsClyde OverbyBME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramArvind Rajamani Srivatsava BME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: Research interests: Hydrogel-based tissue engineering of outer retinal blood barrier Baixue (Dorothy) XiaoBME - Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. ProgramResearch Interest: Nanoparticles, Osteogenic Differentiation of Stem CellsResearch AssistantsAubrey LanhamUndergraduate StudentResearch Interest: Engineering reversible alginate hydrogels for lung inflation and to improve tissue culture and biochemical assays Befikadu MekonnenUndergraduate Student, Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interest: Investigating macrophage uptake of nanoparticlesTram NguyenUndergraduate Student, Biomedical EngineeringResearch Interest: Tuning PEG hydrogel composition to modulate periodontal ligament cell differentiationTiana SalomonUndergraduate Student