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!
Congratulations to Raymond Yeung for advancing to PhD candidancy. Ray successfully defended his Oral Qualifying exam on Tuesday July 14, 2020. His research proposal was entitled "Computational modeling and experimental characterization for the optimization of a microfluidic particle sorting device for large-scale manufacturing of synthetic DNA oligonucleotides". Ray's research is sponsored by the NSF through...
Exciting news that Raymond Yeung's manuscript entitled "Single and binary protein electroultrafiltration using poly(vinyl-alcohol)-carbon nanotube (PVA-CNT) composite membranes" is now published in PLOS One. This manuscript addressed the potential of using electrically conductive carbon nanotube-based composite membranes for effective electroultrafiltration of single and binary protein solutions. In this work α-lactalbumin (14.2 k Da) and hen...
Congratulations to Madeleine Chen for being awarded a mini-grant for her project entitled "Experimental and Computational Modeling of Flat Plate Particle Trajectories to Determine Optimal Particle Density in Helical Flows". Maddie will use COMSOL to model particles of flat rectangular shape in a helical flow apparatus. This work is in conjunction with our collaborative NSF...
Our research in collaboration with Professor William Grover's lab is now published in AIP Advances. This work demonstrates the principle of how differential densimetry can be used to determine the minute flowrates of our osmotic tranpsort device when reducing edema. We are now working to reduce the size of the device for in-vivo research. The...
The osmotic transport device (OTD) was awarded US Patent No. 10420918 on September 24, 2019 for the invention entitled "Compositions and methods for reducing traumatic edema of the central nervous system". This is a great step towards making this methodology realizable to help severe TBI and stroke patients undergoing craniectomies to improve recovery by controllably...
Dimitrios Morikis, UC Riverside Professor of Bioengineering, passed away May 27, 2019. Professor Morikis is well known for his work in immunophysics and immunoengineering, where he used physics and engineering approaches to understand molecular mechanisms of immunology, develop disease models, and design new drugs and molecular sensors for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
Maddie Chen presented her research poster at the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 14, 2019. Maddie's research poster is entitled "Modeling Fluid-Particle and Induced Particle-Particle Interactions in the Transport of Rectangular Particles in Microchannel Flow". Maddie is working with doctoral student Ray Yeung on this work. This work is also in collaboration with Professors...
Professor Rodgers has been invited to present a presentation entitled "On Becoming a Biomedical Engineer" at CSULB on March 29, 2019. His presentation is part of the BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) Student Training Core Team at California State University, Long Beach. The overall goal of CSULB BUILD is to strengthen and develop a...
Ray presented his latest work entitled "Modeling Particle-Particle Interactions In The Transport Of Non-Spherical Particles In Microfluidic Channels" at the BMES Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 18, 2018 in the "Micro/Nano Fluidic Engineering and Lab-on-Chip Systems" session as part of the Nano and Micro Technologies track from 9:30am - 5:00pm. Ray's work is also co-authored...
On September 13, 2018, Professor Rodgers reviewed the potential of the Osmotic Transport Device (OTD) for reducing brain swelling and delivering therapeutics for severe stroke patients at the City of Hope, Argyros Faculty Research Forum.
In Chris' research, he successfully developed an Osmotic Transport Device (OTD) to reduce cerebral edema in the rat model in his interdisciplinary research with Professor Devin Binder in the School of Medicine. He also successfully developed a concentrating osmometer to produce osmotic pressure profiles from one sample. Chris also showed that, in the crowded protein...
Our manuscript entitled "Interrogating the Osmotic Pressure of Self-Crowded Bovine Serum Albumin Solution: Implications of Specific Monovalent Anion Effects Relative to the Hofmeister Series" is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, an ACS Publication, J. Phys. Chem B. 2018, 122 (33), pp. 8037-8040. We are excited about this work as it demonstrates the...
