Lab Director
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Eric Darling Associate Professor of Medical Science, Engineering, and Orthopaedics Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine School of Engineering Department of Orthopaedics Institute for Biology, Engineering, and Medicine Eric_Darling@brown.edu |
Research Staff
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Vera Fonseca Senior Research Assistant Vera_Fonseca@brown.edu |
Graduate Students
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Graylen Chickering PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering Graylen_Chickering@brown.edu Research area: Multi-modal mechanophenotyping fluorescence cytometry GFSD Fellow |
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Prerna Chordiya ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Prerna_Chordiya@brown.edu Research area: Microenvironmental force measurement |
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Sharon Roberts ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Sharon_Roberts@brown.edu Research area: Persistent vascular carriers |
Undergraduate Students
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Yui Miura Biology (Biotechnology/Physiology) Yui_Miura.edu |
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Abieyuwa Otote Biology (Biotechnology/Physiology) Abieyuwa_Otote@brown.edu |
Medical Students
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Clara Tandar Medical bioengineering Clara_Tandar@brown.edu |
Alumni
Post-doctoral researchers
Nicholas Labriola (Post-doc ’17-’18), Staff Scientist, Smith & Nephew
Graduate students
PhD
Olivia Beane (PhD BME ’16), Director of Research, EpiBone
Nicholas Labriola (PhD BME ’17), Post-doc, Brown University
Hetal Marble (PhD Biology ’17), Head of Commercial, Immuto Scientific
Manisha (Kanthilal) Shah (PhD BME ’18), Senior Regulator Content Strategist, Genentech
Rafael González Cruz (PhD BME ’18), Post-doc, Brown University
Jessica Sadick (PhD Biotech ’18), Senior Scientist, Valo Health
Bryan Sutermaster (PhD BME ’19), Stem Cell Scientist, Astellas Pharma
Megan Dempsey (PhD BME ’21), Senior Scientist, Obsidian Therapeutics
Addie Parsons (PhD Biotech ’21), Post-doc, Harvard University
Robert Gutierrez (PhD BME ’22), Post-doc, NIST
Ryan Dubay (PhD BME ’24), Senior Member of Technical Staff, Draper
ScM
Manisha Kanthilal (ScM BME ’13), PhD student, Brown University
Bella Okiddy (ScB ’15, ScM BME ’16), Data analyst, Gitcoin
Addie Parsons (ScM Biotech ’17), PhD student, Brown University
Sylvia Sarnik (ScM BME ’21), Graduate student, CU, Boulder and National Renewable Energy Lab
Sean Weyland (ScM BME ’22), Quality engineer, Veranex
Solhee Kim (ScM BME ’23)
Rebeka (Beka) Sowers (ScM Biotech ’23), Senior Associate Scientist, Pfizer
Aishwarya Bose (ScM BME ’24), Scientist III, Merck and Co.
Marta Rodriguez Navas (ScM BME ’24), R&D Systems Engineer, Fresenius Medical Care
Tamsin Weissberg (ScB ’23, ScM BME ’24), Clinical Project Manager, Crothall Healthcare
Mari Calderon (ScM Biotech ’25), Beam Therapeutics
Sadia Rahman (ScM Biotech ’25), Pfizer
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
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), PhD student, Boston University
Bevan Bsharah (ScB BME ’22), nChroma Bio, Senior Research Associate
Rhea Rasquinha (ScB BME ’25), MD student, Brown University
Clara Tandar (ScB Bioengineering ’25), MD student, Brown University