Congratulations to Dr. Alan Giglio for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Further Applications of Osmotic Transport Device for Penetrating Ballistic Bullet Injury and Long-Term Controlled Cortical Impact Spinal Cord Injury". This work was in collaboration with Professor Devin K. Binder and our good colleagues at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). Dr. Giglio...
Congratulations to Dr. Raymond Yeung on successfully defending his thesis entitled "Characterization of Particulate Flow Dynamics of Flat-Plate Microchips in Microfluidic Channels for High-Throughput Sorting Applications." Ray was co-advised by Professor William Grover and myself on this important work, which was funded by NSF with Professor Philip Brisk serving as the Principal Investigator. Ray also...
Congratulations to Emily Rogers as she pursues a PhD in biochemistry & molecular biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Emily worked in the B2K in collaboration with Professor Byron Ford on computational analysis of the MAPK involvement in MCAO model of ischemic stroke in rats after NRG-1 treatment. Emily plans to pursue a career...
Congratulations to Mandy and Brooklyn for their graduation! Mandy is now pursuing her doctorate in biomedical engineering at UC Davis. Brooklyn is now a process engineer at Sinpex at Takeda. Wishing them both great success in their careers!
Chuchu Liu, an MS student in Professor Jiayu Liao's group presented our collaborative work at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in June, 2025. Chuchu worked with Mandy Hsieh on quantifying the changes in the dissociation constant for SUMO-proteins using FRET under crowded conditions. An earlier version was published in the UCR Undergraduate Journal and Chuchu...
Mandy, Alan and Ray represented the B2K at the 2024 BMES Annual Meeting in Baltimore, October 23-25, 2024. I am proud of all of them. We even had a chance to meet Dr. Zach Bailey at NIH in person. Zach is the original PI on our ballistic wound grant with WRAIR.
Former B2Ker, Etchi Ako, passed her PhD qualifier today at UC Berkeley. Etchi graduated from the B2K in 2022 and is now studying Vision Science under the training of Distinguished Professor Marla Feller. Etchi's research is entitled "The Impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder on Retinal Development". Congratulations to Etchi and we wish her the best...
Mandy Hsieh received a minigrant to support her travel to the annual BMES Conference in Baltimore in October, 2024 to present her work on crowding effects on the dissociation constant of CyPet-SUMO1 and YPet-Ubc9 in the presence of high concentrations of bovine serum albumin. Ray and Alan will also be presenting at the meeting.
Mandy Hsieh's photograph of a Japanese Sea Nettle takes the cover of the 2024 UCR Undergraduate Research Journal. Mandy also published her work on addressing the significance of crowding on the equilibrium protein kinetics. Her research, in collaboration with Professor Jiayu Liao and his students, Chuchu Liu and Gagan Mannur, looked at the potential differences...
Congratulations to Professor Devin McBride for receiving tenure at the University of Texas Health Houston in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery. Devin graduated from the B2K in 2013 and went on to do his postdoctoral training at Loma Linda under Dr. John H. Zhang. Devin joined UTHealth Houston in 2017.
Congratulations to the 2024 B2K graduates, Uma, Emily and Cynthia! We wish them the best in their next step in their careers. Uma will be pursuing a MS at UCSD Cynthia will be pursuing her MS at the University of Washington Emily will be pursuing an MS at UCSD We wish them all success as...
Cynthia Sainz represented the B2K at the 2023 SACNAS Convention held in Portland, Oregon in October. Cynthia presented her work on experimental characterization of lift-off and inertial focusing of microchips in rectangular microchannels. SACNAS focuses on opening doors for underrepresented minorities in the STEM fields by providing students and professionals the opportunities and resources they...
Congratulations for Cynthia Sainz for receiving a Minigrant Award for her undergraduate research on "Experimental Characterization of Lift-Off and Inertial Focusing of Microchips in Rectangular Microchannels". Her research is with Raymond Yeung, PhD candidate and is related to our NSF collaborative grant with Professor Brisk and Grover. From this work, we were able to spin...
Congratulations to Kim for receiving the Ford Foundation, NSF Graduate Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships at Harvard-MIT. Kim graduated from UCR and the B2K in 2021 and moved to Massachusetts to begin her doctoral work under the training of Professor Paula Hammond at MIT. While with the B2K, Kim performed pathway analysis on...
Congratulations to Emily Bomortino for receiving the Chancellor's Research Fellowship for her research entitled "Delivery of Neuregulin-1 through an Osmotic Transport Device". The Chancellor's Research Fellowship (CRF) is a competitive award that supports undergraduate Center for Undergraduate Research and Engaged Learning in faculty-mentored research and creative activity projects. The award provides $5,000 for a summer...
Professor Rodgers, Professor Devin Binder (SOM) and colleagues at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) received a grant from MTEC to develop a fieldable direct osmotherapy device for the point-of-injury reduction of cerebral edema following penetrating traumatic brain injury. This work will use the patented technology developed by Rodgers(US patent 10,420,918 B2) to reduce...
Congratulations to the 2022 B2K graduates, Aneeque, Elmah, Etchi, Israel and Manuel!! Each of them has already established the next phase in their career objectives. Aneeque has joined the MS program in Medical Device Engineering at UCSD Elmah has joined Genentech as a bioengineer Etchi has joined the PhD program in Vision Science at UC...
Congratulations to the 2020 graduates Maddie Chen, Jesse-Issa Hawatmeh and Daniel Chu! Maddie will be joining the M.S. graduate program in bioengineering at UCSD, Issa is coming to UCR for his bioengineering M. S. and Daniel is exploring options for graduate programs. We wish all of you the best in your futures!
