Bioengineering Students
Sommer Amundsen
Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow
Doctoral Program — Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
Fellow: Biodynamics Lab
Research Interests: Assessing fall risk due to impaired motor control from aging or diseases such as Parkinson’s disease
Vara Aziz
Master's Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Hydrogels and Protein Polymers Laboratory
Research Interests: Hydrogel synthesis and property improvement for application in biomedical industries
Mark Bailey
Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow
Doctoral Program — Biomedical Product Design and Development
Fellow: Therapeutic Particles and Biomaterials Technology Lab
Research Interests: Development of fluorinated, nanoparticle-based, multimodal contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescence imaging, and ultrasound imaging
Manjari Bhamidipati
Master’s Program – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GTA
Research Interests:
Huizhong Cui
Doctoral Program — Bioimaging
GRA: Bioengineering Research Center
Research Interests: Photoacoustic imaging; Integrated laser and ultrasound therapeutic system
Adam Cyr
Doctoral Program — Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
GRA: Experimental Joint Biomechanics Research Laboratory
Research Interests: Knee joint kinetics and kinematics
Keerthana Devarajan
Master’s Program – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Lab
Research Interests:
John Domann
Master's Program — Biomedical Product Design and Development
GRA: Structural Materials Laboratory
Research Interests: Development of surgical devices, implants, and biomedical sensors, with a focus on utilization of adaptive materials.
Nathan Dormer
Doctoral Program — Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
NIGMS Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Trainee
GRA: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Lab
Research Interests: Ostechondral (bone and cartilage) tissue regeneration as a treatment for osteoarthritis.
Amir Fakhari
Doctoral Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Therapeutic Particles and Biomaterials Technology Lab
Research Interests: Nanoparticle fabrication and modification, targeted therapeutic nanoparticles
Kaity Fucinaro
Master's Program — Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering
GRA:
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Brian Good
Master's Program —
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Tricia Huber
Doctoral Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials Synthesis and Characterization Lab
Research Interests: Hydrogels, biomaterial characterization, drug delivery, tissue engineering
Vidyashankara Iyer
Doctoral Program — Biomolecular Engineering
GRA: Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization lab
Research Interests: Protein stabilization and formulation, Vaccine development
Jong Cheol Jeong
Doctoral Program — Bioinformatics
GRA: Bioinformatics and Computational Life Sciences Laboratory, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center
Research Interests: Protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions
Janggun Jo
Doctoral Program — Bioinformatics
GRA: Photoacoustic Imaging
Research Interests: Fuzzy, neural networks, system controls and circuits
Jaehyun Kim,
Doctoral Program — Biomolecular Engineering
GRA: Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Laboratory Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Research Interests: Analysis of various spectroscopy experimental data
Mark Komosa
Master's Program — Biomedical Product Design & Development
GRA: Experimental Joint Biomechanics Lab
Research Interests: Knee biomechanics in the natural knee and prosthetic knee
Bhargavi Krishnan
Master’s Program – Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
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Srinivas Kumar
Master's Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Research Interests: Combining microparticles and stem cells to engineer shape specific bone
Emily Mangus
Master’s Program – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab
Research Interests:
Katrina McDaniel
Master’s Program – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GTA
Research Interests:
A.J. Mellott
Master's Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab
Research Interests: Developmental gene insertion into stem cells to induce improved differentiation of stem cells into cartilage and bone cells; tissue repair/regeneration
Lindsey Ott
Master's Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
GRA: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Lab
Research Interests: Tissue engineering of tracheal cartilage for transplantation into patients who have experienced stenosis or other complications of the trachea.
Ranganathan Parthasarathy
Doctoral Program — Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
GRA: Bioengineering Research Center
Research Interests: Constitutive Modeling of Biomaterials
Rodrigo Perea
Master's Program — Biomedical Product Design and Development
GRA: Structural Materials Laboratory
Research Interests: Development and characterization of piezoelectric composite materials.
Karthik Ramachandran
Doctoral Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
KU Medical Center GRA: Diabetes Research Laboratory
Research Interests: Remodeling islet tissue for improved transplant success in treatment of diabetes.
Amanda Renth
Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow
Doctoral Program — Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Fellow: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory
Research Interests: Differentiating umbilical cord stem cells for orthopedic applications
Brock Roughton
Doctoral Program — Biomolecular Engineering
GRA: Molecular Design Lab
Research Interests: Prediction of protein aggregation using computational methods. Computational molecular design of excipients for protein formulations.
Sarah Schmitt
Doctoral Program – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
KUMC GRA: Office of Therapeutics and Discovery, KU Cancer Center
Research Interests:
Sami Shalhoub
Master’s Program – Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
GTA
Research Interests:
Jacob Staley
Master's Program — Bioimaging
GRA: Photoacoustic imaging group – Bioengineering Research Center
Research Interests: Molecular imaging of malignant melanoma using photoacoustic techniques
Ashleigh Steckly
Master’s Program – Biomolecular Engineering
GTA
Research Interests:
Rong Tao
Doctoral Program — Bioimaging
KU Medical Center GRA: Hoglund Brain Imaging Center
Research Interests: Fetal Magnetocardiography
Derek Wassom
Master’s Program – Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
GTA
Research Interests:
Clayton Wauneka
Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow
Doctoral Program — Biomechanics and Neural Engineering
Research Interests: Stroke rehabilitation devices for improved motor function in shoulder/elbow and gait
Jim West, III
Master's Program — Biomedical Product Development
GRA: Joint Biomechanics Research Lab
Research Interests: Novel solutions to knee and ankle mechanics problems
