Lab Director
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Eric Darling Associate Professor of Medical Science, Engineering, and Orthopaedics Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Center for Biomedical Engineering Eric_Darling@brown.edu |
Research staff
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Vera Fonseca Laboratory manager Vera_Fonseca@brown.edu |
Graduate students
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Graylen Chickering PhD student, Biomedical Engineering Graylen_Chickering@brown.edu Research area: Optical cytometry for mechanophenotyping |
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Ryan Dubay PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering Ryan_Dubay@brown.edu Research area: High-throughput mechanical characterization/sorting of cells Draper Fellow |
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Rebeka Sowers ScM student, Biotechnology Rebeka_Sowers@brown.edu Research area: Hydrophobic drug delivery |
Undergraduate students
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Clara Tandar Computational Biology Clara_Tandar@brown.edu |
Alumni
Post-doctoral researchers
Nicholas Labriola (Post-doc ’17-’18), Senior Scientist, Smith & Nephew
Graduate students
PhD
Olivia Beane (PhD BME ’16), Research Scientist, EpiBone
Nicholas Labriola (PhD BME ’17), Post-doc, Brown University
Hetal Marble (PhD Biology ’17), Senior Director, Diagnostic Product Management, Quanterix
Manisha (Kanthilal) Shah (PhD BME ’18), Associate Clinical Project Manager, Genentech
Rafael González Cruz (PhD BME ’18), Post-doc, Brown University
Jessica Sadick (PhD Biotech ’18), Scientist II, Valo Health
Bryan Sutermaster (PhD BME ’19), Stem Cell Scientist, Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Megan Dempsey (PhD BME ’21), Process Development Scientist, Prothelia
Addie Parsons (PhD Biotech ’21), Post-doc, Harvard University
Robert Gutierrez (PhD BME ’22), Post-doc, NIST
ScM
Manisha Kanthilal (ScM BME ’13), PhD student, Brown University
Bella Okiddy (ScM BME ’16), Member advocate, Collective Health
Addie Parsons (ScM Biotech ’17), PhD student, Brown University
Sylvia Sarnik (ScM BME ’21), Graduate intern, National Renewable Energy Lab
Undergraduate students
Indu Voruganti (ScB Biology ’12), Radiation oncology resident, University of Toronto
Noa Nessim (ScB Biology ’13), MD student, UNC, Chapel Hill
Aaron Chiou (ScB BME ’14), PhD student, Cornell University
Eunice Cho (ScB Biology ’14), PhD student, Yale University
Bella Okiddy (ScB BME ’15), Data analyst, Azavista
Iris Garcia-Pak (ScB BME ’15), MD/PhD student, UCSD
Libby Stein (ScB Biology ’15), MD student, Albany Medical College
Corey Holman (ScB Biology ’16), Research Technician, Weill Medical College
Keenan Line (ScB BME ’18), Senior Software Engineer, HighRes Biosolutions
Elizabeth Bixler (ScB BME ’18), MD student, Texas A&M EnMed
Olivia Woodford-Berry (ScB Biology ’19), Analyst, ClearView Healthcare Partners
Joseph Urban (ScB BME ’21), Technical Staff 1, Draper
Bevan Bsharah (ScB BME ’22)