
Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Mackenzie Scully
BME PhD Candidate Mackenzie Scully will be defending their dissertation: Engineering Cancer Cell Membrane-Wrapped Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Zheng Cao
Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Time: 9:30 am

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Wade Stewart
BME PhD Candidate Wade Stewart will be defending their dissertation: Implementation of static and dynamic culture substrates to control maturation of human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocytes through tunable manipulation of topographical roughness and bulk stiffness.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – N’Dea Irvin-Choy
BME PhD Candidate Jamie M. Benson will be defending her dissertation: Clarifying Cartilage Mechanics During Contact, Separation, and Migration.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Kyle D. Meadows
BME PhD Candidate Kyle D. Meadows will be defending his dissertation: MRI Based Non-Invasive Detection and Monitoring of Tissue Mechanics and Degenerative Changes in the Intervertebral Disc and the Meniscus.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Jamie M. Benson
BME PhD Candidate Jamie M. Benson will be defending her dissertation: Clarifying Cartilage Mechanics During Contact, Separation, and Migration.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Ellen T. Bloom
BME PhD Candidate Ellen T. Bloom will be defending her dissertation: A Tendon Model Using Mechanical Overload Causes Degenerative Multiscale Changes in Structure and Function.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – John L. Sperduto
BME PhD Candidate John L. Sperduto will be defending his dissertation: A Microvessel-on-a-Chip for Studying how Tumor-Derived Factors Prime the Endothelium for Extravasation.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Jeongmin Hwang
BME PhD Candidate Jeongmin Hwang will be defending her dissertation: Extracellular Matrix (ECM)-Based Biomaterial Strategies to Control Delivery of Gene and Small Molecule Therapies in Wound Repair.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Catherine S. Millar-Haskell
BME PhD Candidate Catherine S. Millar-Haskell will be defending her dissertation: Thiols and Disulfides in the Tumor Microenvironment: Characterization of Secreted Quiescin Sulfhydryl Oxidase 1 (QSOX1) In the Extracellular Matrix.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Peyton Lian Delgorio
BME PhD Candidate Peyton Lian Delgorio will be defending her dissertation: High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Elastography of Human Hippocampal Subfields.

Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Grace McIlvain
BME PhD Candidate Grace McIlvain will be defending her dissertation: Imaging Mechanical Properties of the Pediatric Brain.