Faculty & Student Awards

PRIMARY FACULTY

2019

  • Assistant Professor Emily Day was awarded an NIH R01 for “Multifunctional siRNA/antibody nanocarriers to treat metastatic triple-negative breast cancer” from NIH/NCI
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day was an invitee to the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
  • Assistant Professor Curtis Johnson received a Research Summit Award from DE INBRE
  • Assistant Professor John Slater received a Research Summit Award from NIH DE INBRE
  • Assistant Professor John Slater received an Emerging Leader in Biological Engineering Award from the Journal of Biological Engineering

2018

  • Professor Dawn Elliott was awarded the Adele L. Boskey Award from the Orthopedic Research Society for her combined excellence in impactful research and mentorship
  • Professor Dawn Elliott was awarded an NIH R01 for “Disc Mechanics and Altered Loading in Degeneration” from NIH NIAMS
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day received an NSF Career Award for “Engineering Membrane-Wrapped Nanoparticles for Targeted RNA Delivery”
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day was named a Young Innovator in Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering by CMBE Journal
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day was named a Young Innovator in Nanobiotechnology by Nano Research Journal
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day received a Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from BMES
  • Assistant Professor Emily Day received a Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholar Award from the UD Francis Alison Society
  • Assistant Professor Jason Gleghorn was awarded an NIH R01 on the “Mechanical Control of Cell Proliferation and Branching Morphogenesis in the Embryonic Lung” from NIH/NHLBI
  • Assistant Professor Curtis Johnson was awarded an NIH R01 on the “Mechanical Integrity of Memory Systems in Mild Cognitive Impairment” from NIH and NIA
  • Assistant Professor Megan Killian was awarded an NIH R03 on the “Contributions of Skeletal Muscle Loading During Rotator Cuff Maturation and Healing” from NIH/NICHD
  • Assistant Professor Megan Killian received a JOR Early Career Award from ORS
  • Assistant Professor Sarah Rooney was awarded a UD CTAL Instructional Improvement Grant for “Evidence-based Teaching and Mentoring Practices for Inclusion and Diversity in Engineering FLC”
  • Assistant Professor Sarah Rooney was awarded the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division
  • Assistant Professor Fabrizio Sergi received a pilot grant from DE-CTR (NIH) for the “Development of StretchfMRI to Study the Brainstem Correlates of Post-Stroke Spasticity”
  • Assistant Professor John Slater received a DE CAT EPOC from the Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept Grant for “A New Therapeutic Approach to Halting Cancer Metastasis”
  • Assistant Professor John Slater was awarded a Shovel-Ready Pilot Grant for “Antibody Inhibition of Cancer Metastasis” from NIH Delaware ACCEL
  • Assistant Professor John Slater received an NSF Career Award for “Development of a Tissue Engineered Model of Ischemic Microstroke” from NSF CBET

2017

  • Professor Dawn Elliott has been named Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Jason Gleghorn, was awarded an NIH R01 titled, “Pressure in Lung Development and Congenital
    Diagphragmatic Hernia” from NHLBI.
  • Assistant Professor, Megan Killian, was awarded an NIH K12 through Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Rehab
    Engineering Career Development Program

2016

  • NSF grant supports research to shed light on how cartilage works (Chris Price)

  • Assistant Professor, Fabrizio Sergi, was awarded an NSF NRI titled, “Goal-Oriented, subject-Adaptive, robot-assisted
    Locomotor Learning (GOALL)” from CBET
  • Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Award from the March of Dimes Foundation (Jason Gleghorn)
  • NIH R35 Grant to develop miRNA nanocarriers (Emily Day)

2015

2014

2013

JOINT/AFFILIATED FACULTY

2016

  • NIH grant supports investigation of connection between ACL surgery and osteoarthritis (Thomas Buchanan)

  • E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis)

2015

  • National Library of Medicine grant to explore text mining of biomedical information (Chandra Kambhamettu)
  • Leads new Delaware-CTR ACCEL program – received $25 million to support growth of clinical and translational research (Stuart BInder-MacLeod)
  • R21 NIH grant to study healing of tendon injuries (Daniel Cortes)
  • Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Engineering (Jill Higginson)
  • A 5-year educational grant from NIH (Jill Higginson)
  • A grant from the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance to help fund a clinical immersion course for BME undergraduates (Jill Higginson)
  • UDRF award to study bone health (April Kloxin)
  • UDRF award to study drug delivery (Christopher Kloxin)
  • American Chemical Society Fellow (David Martin)
  • R56 grant (Hagit Shatkay)
  • ACCEL Big Data grant (Hagit Shatkay)
  • R01 grant from the National Library of Medicine to explore text mining of biomedical information (Hagit Shatkay)
  • COBRE NIH pilot grant to develop a nanoparticle-based theranostic agent to treat IBC metastasis (Karin Silbernagel and Arun Kumar)

2014

2013

2012

GRADUATE STUDENTS

2019

  • N’Dea Irvin-Choy received a Graduate Scholar Award for Fellowship
  • Megan Dang received an Honourable Mention from the NSF
  • Margot Farnham was awarded an Elmer E. Klaus Fellowship from the Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers

2018

  • Peyton Delgorio earned a Fred Rust Scholarship
  • Keely Keller received a Travel Award from Women in Engineering
  • Keely Keller received a Career Development Award from BMES

2017

  • The prestigious Whitaker Fellowship to study abroad for a year. (Axel Moore)
  • UD’s prestigious Laird Fellowship
  • University Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award (Aditya Jagarapu)

2016

  • UD’s prestigious Laird Fellowship (Danielle Valcourt)
  • University Graduate Fellowships (Rachel Riley & Michael David)

2015

  • First place for his podium presentation at CBER’s Biomechanics Research Symposium (Ashutosh Parajuli)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, (Jilian Melamed)
  • IGERT Fellowship to research the mechanics of fiber-reinforced tissues (Andrea Lee)
  • IGERT Fellowship to research biofunctional materials and cellular engineering (Omar Banda)
  • Second place for his podium presentation at CBER’s Biomechanics Research Symposium (Michael David)
  • Honorable Mention in the NSF GRFP competition (Rachel Edelstein)
  • Laird Fellowship (Keely Heintz)

2014

  • University Graduate Scholars Fellowship to study HIV modeling (Lamont Cannon)
  • Goldwater Scholarship (Daniel Charytonowicz)
  • BME Grad TA Award (Michael David)
  • Biomechanics Research Symposium Award (Ashutosh Khandha)
  • Gore Fellowship (Andrea Lee)
  • BME Grad TA Award (Jilian Melamed)
  • University Graduate Scholars Fellowship to study HIV modeling (Lamont Cannon)

2013

  • Selected to participate in the newly launched Fraunhofer-UD grad student exchange program (Peter Worthington)
  • Won CBER day competition and PhD student paper competition at ASME summer bioengineering conference (Spencer Szczesny)
  • Gore Fellowship and IGERT Fellowship to study single cell manipulation using engineered environments (Hettie Nie)
  • Awarded prize at National McNair Scholars Research Competition, received a Force and Motion Foundation Scholarship and a Laird Fellowship to study localized cartilage damage (Axel Moore)
  • BME Grad TA Award (Ashutosh Khandha)

2012

  • Gore Fellowship award to study mechanotransduction in bone (Ashutosh Parajuli)
  • IGERT scholar to investigate the tissue engineering of functional vocal fold lamina propria (Aidan Zerdoum)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

2020

  • BME Chair’s Award (Sienna Pyle, Michael Slemko)
  • BME Distinguished Senior Award (Ahlad Neti, Ariel Hannum)
  • BME Distinguished Junior Award (Maria Lilley, Nicholas Paulter)
  • BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Akram Ahmed, Alexis Anderson, and Carolina Gomez Casas)
  • Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Award (Maddie Dugan)

2019

  • BME Chair’s Award (Stephen Ioele, Kelly Kempski)
  • BME Distinguished Senior Award (Rachel O’Sullivan, Jordyn Schrader)
  • BME Distinguished Junior Award (Isabel Carulli, Jordan Shuff)
  • BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Violet Ullman, Julianna Wayne)
  • Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Award (Abigail Dela Paz)

2018

  • BME Chair’s Award (Zachary Sexton, Margaret Billingsley)
  • BME Distinguished Senior Award (Amanda Studnicki, Matthew Gentry)
  • BME Distinguished Junior Award (Stephen Ioele, Kelley Kempski)
  • BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Phoebe Balascio, Sienna Pyle)
  • Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Award (Srinivasa Gajjala)

2017

  • BME Chair’s Award (Erica Comber, Pete Sariano)
  • BME Distinguished Senior Award (Christopher Bresette, Rebecca Kowalski)
  • BME Distinguished Junior Award (Margaret Billingsly, Zachary Sexton)
  • BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Branden Bateman, Abigail Dela Paz)
  • Jason Bamford, senior undergraduate, GeoSwap team wins 1st place at 2017 Hen Hatch competition
  • Erica Comber, senior undergraduate, wins the 2017 Brad and Jennifer Bono Award from Horn Program
  • Senior design team, Ryan Barlow, Hannah Heuschneider, Caroline Koriakin, and Kenny Ope partner with Nemours
    Alfred I. DuPont Hospital to design a chair for babies with brittle bone disease

2016

  • BME Chair’s Award (Lauren Baker, Vinayak Rajendran)
  • BME Distinguished Junior Award (Erica Comber, Christopher Bresette)
  • BME Distinguished Senior Award (Daniel Charytonowicz, Bretta Fylstra, John Lowman)
  • BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Zachary Sexton, Margaret Billingsley)
  • Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Memorial Award (Elizabeth Soulas)

2014

  • Received a BME Distinguished Junior Award and is part of a Interdisciplinary Senior Design team that was awarded first place at the U of Minnesota Medical Devices Conference (Bimal Amin)
  • Part of the Malawi Water Project which was chosen to receive seed funding from the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) (Arvind Annamalai)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Sophomore Award (Ian Berke)
  • Part of a team that was awarded first-place technology innovation winner at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare for SimuTrach, a device that provides realistic training for the care of tracheostomy patients (Brad Biggs).
  • Part of a team that was awarded first-place technology innovation winner at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare for SimuTrach, a device that provides realistic training for the care of tracheostomy patients (Devon Bond)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Senior Award (Kevin Chang)
  • Part of a team that was awarded first-place technology innovation winner at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare for SimuTrach, a device that provides realistic training for the care of tracheostomy patients, and received the BME Director’s Award (Nick Campagnola)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Junior Award (Mary Doolin)
  • Part of an Interdisciplinary Senior Design team that was awarded first place at the U of Minnesota Medical Devices Conference (Wes McDowell)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Senior Award (Stacy Hand)
  • Invited to present at the Clinton Global Initiative an adaptive rowing device for physically impaired individuals (Matthew Imm)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Junior Award (Kyra Isaacs)
  • Received a BME Distinguished Senior Award (Lindsay Scheetz)
  • Received a College of Engineering, Engineering Alumni Association Scholarship (James P. Thomson)
  • Part of a team invited to present at the Clinton Global Initiative an adaptive rowing device for physically impaired individuals (Molly Wessel)
  • Received Honors Enrichment Award to be MEDLIFE volunteer in Peru (Peter Wikoff)

2013

2012