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2023
Christian Park
Christian is a Biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He got B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Deeply interested in and passionate about the intersection of mechanobiology, bioinformatics, and machine learning. Firm believer in the power of engineering and science to change the world.
Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, Mechanobiology, Machine Learning, Single Cell OMICs
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2023
Claire Hung
Claire is a second-year Biomedical Engineering PhD student in Dr. Alyssa Panitch’s lab. She received her bachelor’s degree from University of Virginia in Biomedical Engineering. Her research focuses on developing the targeted therapeutic for cellular senescence in fibrotic diseases.
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2023
Gloriani Sanchez Marrero
Gloriani is from Puerto Rico and she is a BioE PhD student and her research focus is in how the mechanical environment of plaques in the carotid and femoral arteries affect their phenotype and what molecular pathways might be involved in these processes. She is also interested in how sex-based differences impact atherosclerosis onset and progression.
Research interests: cardiovascular biomechanics, PAD, sex-based differences
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2023
Tawfik Hussein
Tawfik is a third-year Biomedical Engineering doctoral student in the joint program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He completed his B.S. and M.S, both in Biomedical Engineering, as well as a minor in astrophysics from Texas A&M University. He began his career studying the mechanics of the heart, where he developed a new theoretical model for the myocardium. Using his model, he is currently simulating computationally the mechanical changes undergoing the heart in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) to help clinicians predict it in its early stages and optimize treatment for patients. Research interests: Heart failure, Cardiac mechanics, Cardiac MRI, Constitutive modeling, Computational medicine, Precision medicine
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2023
Aniket Venkatesh
Aniket is an incoming Bioengineering Ph.D. student and a graduate researcher at the Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and the Oshinski Lab. He completed B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and perform patient-specific computational modeling of cardiovascular interventional treatments for my research.
Research interests: Predicting risks of adverse clinical outcomes following cardiovascular interventional treatments and developing individualized treatment plans for patients with cardiovascular diseases.
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2023
Deborah Wood
Deborah Wood is currently a Ph.D. student in the Joint Biomedical Engineering Program at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia and subsequently pursued a postbacc at Northwestern University. Her research interests include integrating multi omics and bio-nanotechnology approaches to improve cardiovascular disease diagnosis and therapeutic development. Outside of the lab, Deborah enjoys listening to music, strength training, taking long walks, and volunteering with STEM outreach initiatives.
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2023
Isabel Wallgren
Isabel is a first-year graduate student at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering pursing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Engineering Science, Materials Science and B.A. in Chemistry from Emory University (2023). In 2023, she was awarded the NSF-GRFP fellowship, the President’s Fellowship from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Women in the Natural Sciences (WiNS) fellowship from Laney Graduate School. Rooted in her passion for understanding the human body, her research interests include cardiovascular pathophysiology, tissue scaffolds, and 3D bioprinting.
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2023
Leandro Choi
Leandro is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2022. He is currently a first year Biomedical Engineering PhD student at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Research interests: Using molecular biology and OMICS analysis to study the role of flow-sensitive genes in cardiovascular disease and discover new therapeutics.
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2023
Yohannes Akiel
Yohannes is a first year PhD student in Biomedical Engineering. He is originally from Dallas, Texas and completed undergraduate at the University of Texas at San Antonio in Biomedical Engineering.
The research interests are in biomaterials, tissue engineering, and disease modeling for cardiovascular applications.