Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Qinghua Xu, 2022
Adipose Tissue Engineering & In vitro tissue models
Pallabi Pal, 2021
Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Graduate Students
Paulina Babiak, Ph.D. 2024
Developing Collagen and Hyaluronan Based High-Fidelity, High-Throughput In Vitro Platforms for Biotherapeutic Screening
Current: AbbVie
Jessica Torres, Ph.D. 2023
Designing Biomimetic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Current: Eli Lilly
Claire Kilmer, Ph.D. 2019
Collagen Type I and II Blend Hydrogels for Articular Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Current: Humacyte
Nelda Vázquez-Portalatín, Ph.D. 2019
The Use of Biopolymers for Tissue Engineering
Current: OmniVis
Charng-yu Lin, Ph.D. 2019
Toward Rational Design of Rational Materials for Biological Applications
Current: DuPont Taiwan
Sydney Hollingshead, Ph.D. 2018
Biological Applications of Elastin- and Mussel-Inspired Polymers
Current: Eli Lilly
Celina Twitchell, M.S. 2018
Restoring Joint Lubrication: The Development of a Biomimetic Lubricin Peptidoglycan to Reduce Friction at the Articular Cartilage Surface
Renay S-C Su, Ph.D. 2015
Engineering Elastomeric Protein-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Applications
Current: DuPont Taiwan
M. Jane Brennan, Ph.D. 2015
Design and Characterization of Biomimetic Adhesive Materials
Current: Washington University in St. Louis
Yeji Kim, Ph.D. 2014
Modulating Cell Differentiation with Protein-Engineered Microenvironments
Current: LG Chemical
Richard Galas, Ph.D. 2013
Microenvironmental Cues for Vascular Tissue Engineering
Current: Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Julie Renner, Ph.D. 2012
Modular Protein Matrices for Cartilage Repair
Current: Case Western Reserve University
Undergraduate students
Kevin Vargo, Andrew Lundfelt, Vicente Garcías, Jason Wu, Andrew Shrum, Carl Snyder, Grant Haeussler, Teresa Lin, Kevin Cherry, Ryan Mihalic, Peter Meléndez, Ahmed Abdelsalam, Meggan Stanton, Mary Kearney, MacKenzie Tweardy, Christopher Hanselman, Jeffrey Frumkin, Haefa Mansour, Yuqian Chen, Reid Bonner, Victoria Messerschmidt, Christine Peercy, Isaura Frost, Luis Sotomayor Cuevas, Bridget Kilbride, Emily Gill, Kelsey Bullens, Sana Chughtai, Zain Clapacs, Yupeng Zhuo, Ben Lange, Nicole Shoaf, Dana Boucher, Gabriella Pruneda, Sathvik Madduri, Kayla McKeague, Leonard Cahya, David Holicz, Jason Minnich II, Rithika Athreya, Dean Constantine, Lucy Baker, Crystal Jiang