Lab Director
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Eric Darling Associate Professor of Medical Science, Engineering, and Orthopaedics Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute for Biology, Engineering, and Medicine Center for Biomedical Engineering 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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Aishwarya Bose ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Aishwarya_Bose@brown.edu Research area: Microparticle chelators |
Mari Calderon ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Aishwarya_Bose@brown.edu Research area: Microgel robustness |
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Graylen Chickering PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering Graylen_Chickering@brown.edu Research area: Optical cytometry for mechanophenotyping GFSD Fellow |
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Sadia Rahman ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Aishwarya_Bose@brown.edu Research area: Persistent vascular carriers |
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Marta Rodriguez Navas ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Marta_Rodriguez_Navas@brown.edu Research area: Microenvironmental force measurement |
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Tamsin Weissberg 5th-year ScM student, Biomedical Engineering Tamsin_Weissberg@brown.edu Research area: 3D printing microdevices |
Undergraduate students
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Rhea Rasquinha Biomedical Engineering Rhea_Rasquinha@brown.edu |
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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 (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, BME ’23), Senior Associate Scientist, 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
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)