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
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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
- The Van C. Mow Medal from ASME for significantly advancing the field of biomedical engineering (Dawn Elliott)
- Orthopaedic Research Society Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Award (Dawn Elliott)
- UDRF grant to investigate kidney branching morphogenesis (Jason Gleghorn)
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) (Jason Gleghorn)
- COBRE Pilot Project grant to study the directed self-assembly of vascular architectures in microfluidic biomaterials (Jason Gleghorn)
- NSF grant to study the mechanics of lung development (Jason Gleghorn)
- American Cancer Society/Thomas Jefferson University Institutional Research Grants to study metastatic breast cancer (Emily Day and John Slater)
- W.M. Keck Foundation Grant to develop upconversion nanoparticles for solar energy harvesting and light-activated therapies (Emily Day, John Slater, Matt Doty, Josh Zide, Chris Kloxin)
2014
- NIH grant to explore tissue engineering (Dawn Elliott)
- UDRF grant (Emily Day)
- ACCEL grant to explore breast cancer nanotherapy (Emily Day)
- 2014 INBRE Pilot Project award (John Slater)
- UDRF award to develop 3D microfluidic systems (John Slater)
2013
- American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellow (Dawn Elliott)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) fellow (Dawn Elliott)
- UDRF grant to study bone cells (Chris Price)
- NIAMS grant to study the micro-fluidic behavior of cartilage using spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy (STICS)
(Chris Price) - Department of Defense grant to study a novel therapy for post-traumatic osteoarthritis (Chris Price)
JOINT/AFFILIATED FACULTY
2016
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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
- NSF grant to elucidate scaling effects of friction (David Burris)
- Young Investigator by Sigma Xi (Thomas Epps)
- NSF grant to explore infant mobility and development (Cole Galloway)
- UD Class of 1963 Golden Anniversary Award for “outstanding humanitarian efforts” and “enhancing the academic environment” at the University (Cole Galloway)
- American Chemical Society Fellow (Kristi Kiick)
- Francis Alison Award demonstrates the combination of leadership and teaching (Abraham Lenhoff)
- Rising Star Award from BMES (Lucas Lu)
- NIH grant to study osteoporosis treatment (Anja Nohe)
- National Academy of Inventors fellow (Babatunde Ogunnaike)
- MAC Eminent Chemical Engineer by AIChE (Babatunde Ogunnaike)
- Delaware Bio Academic Research Award from INBRE (Terry Papoutsakis)
- NSF Career Award to develop planning strategies for animal-inspired robots (Ioannis Poulakakis)
- National Academy of Inventors for his groundbreaking infrared technology (John Rabolt)
- GLOBEX Fellow at Peking University teaching Computational Biomedicine (Hagit Shatkay)
2013
- Outstanding Scholar Award from the College of Arts & Sciences (Richard Braun)
- Academic Research Award from the Delaware BioScience Association (Kristi Kiick)
- Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE at Drexel) program, Class of 2013-14 fellows (Kristi Kiick)
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences award (April Kloxin)
- National Science Foundation Career Award to study the extracellular signals that regulate tissue stability, disease and repair in the body (April Kloxin)
- Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for his outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering (Kelvin Lee)
- Junior Investigator Grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation to study the effects of weight bearing rehabilitation after microfracture surgery (Lucas Lu)
- Department of Defense grant to study a novel therapy for post-traumatic osteoarthritis (Lucas Lu)
- Daniel I.C. Wang Award from AIChE (Terry Papoutsakis)
- Won for his presentation at the DBI Research Symposium (Terry Papoutsakis)
- NIH grant to develop non-varal carriers for gene therapy for bone repair (Millicent Sullivan)
- was awarded a 2013 Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant for her research on “Assembly of Novel Controlled Release Polyplexes for Efficient mRNA Delivery” (Millicent Sullivan)
- Selected to present at the Georgia Tech Frontiers in Bioengineering Workshop (Millicent Sullivan)
- Junior Investigator Grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation to study the effects of weight bearing rehabilitation after microfracture surgery (Lynn Snyder-Mackler)
- Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) (Abhi Singh)
- UDRF grant (Abhi Singh)
- UDRF grant to develop new nanocomposites that mimic natural bone for use in implant therapy (Arun Kumar)
2012
- A Five-year COBRE continuation grant for osteoarthritis research (Thomas Buchanan)
- UD’s Excellence in Advising and Mentoring Award (Jenni Buckley)
- Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) annual meeting (Wilfred Chen)
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for seminal contributions to the design and synthesis of novel macromolecular biomaterials (Kristi Kiick)
- Funding for a collaborative research project with the Fraunhofer Center for Molecular Biotechnology (CMB) (Kristi Kiick)
- Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Thomas Epps)
- University’s Francis Alison Society to receive its
- Martin Luther King, Jr visiting professor at MIT (Thomas Epps)
- Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Thomas Epps)
- NIST award for continued neutron scattering research (Thomas Epps)
- Named Martin Luther King, Jr visiting professor at MIT (Thomas Epps)
- Article selected for Biomedical Materials 2012 highlights (Catherine Kirn-Safran’s)
- University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF) grant for her research on developing hydrogels for the controlled release of therapeutic drugs to treat skin cancers (April Kloxin)
- Principal investigator, a National Science Foundation grant under the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program to train doctoral students in the area of systems biology of cells in engineered environments (Kelvin Lee)
- Delaware’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program pilot project (Li Liao)
- UDRF grant for his research on developing a non-invasive mechanical technique for the early detection of osteoarthritis (Lucas Lu)
- National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to advances in process systems, process engineering practice and systems engineering (Babatunde Ogunnaike)
- Nigerian Academy of Engineering for being a senior Nigerian professional who has distinguished himself in business, academia and government (Babatunde Ogunnaike)
- Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant (Terry Papoutsakis)
- Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his research in developing new nanostructures and functional materials that can have biomedical applications in drug therapy or tissue regeneration (Darrin Pochan)
- NIST award for continued neutron scattering research (Darrin Pochan)
- Delaware’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program pilot project for his research on developing a new immersive surgery training system that will provide high-fidelity 3D reconstructions of actual surgical procedures (Jingyi Yu)
- Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) grant for her research on “Bioinformatics Optimization for Recombinant Protein Expression for Vaccines and Therapeutics” (Cathy Wu)
- David L. and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair (Michela Taufer)
- NIST award for continued neutron scattering research (Christopher Roberts)
- NSF grant to perform the stochastic modeling and inference of gene networks (Abhi Singh)
- Best Thesis Award from the Center for Control, Dynamical-systems, and Computation (CCDC) (Abhi Singh)
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
- Awarded for his poster at the MSEG Open House (Brendan Farrell)
- Awarded 2nd place at Undergrad Research Symposium in Chemical and Biological Sciences (Zachary Fox)
- Shared the 1st place for best poster by an undergrad at the Northeast Regional IDeA Conference (Ryan O’Boyle)
- First place in First Step Program competition and won first place at UD’s Undergraduate Research and Service Celebratory Symposium. (Annie Sanger)
- Received the Society of Military Engineers Award for being the top cadet enrolled in an engineering curriculum for military excellence (Allyson Zeitschel)
- Awarded first place in First Step Program competition (Kevin Chang)
2012
- Funding to develop solutions to health-related challenges (Ryan Locke)
- Received funding to develop solutions to health-related challenges (Annie Sanger)
- First place at 15th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences (2012). He also received funding to develop solutions to health-related challenges (Kevn Chang)