Cynthia Cortes 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 Cortes 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 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 intracranial pressure and edema...
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!
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...
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...
