New members join the lab at the start of a new school year
1 September 2024
Earlier this summer, we welcomed our new lab manager Makenzie Bushold (left) to the lab. And with the start of the new school year, we are welcoming two new PhD students into the lab, Kate Katsouleas (middle) and Colter Oroke (right). Welcome all and cheers to their first semester at Duke!
Two Undergraduate Students Graduate
12 May 2024
Our two seniors at Duke, Edwin Yu and Lucas Ramirez, had their commencement ceremony this weekend and are now graduates!
We are proud of their accomplishments so far and wish them success as they move on and join the workforce.
Claudia Wong and Parker Esswein are Awarded the 2024 NSF GRFP
12 April 2024
Second year PhD Student Claudia and first year PhD student Parker were both announced as recipients of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Big congrats to these two - we are so proud of this accomplishment for them!
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Emily Warren is Awarded 2024 NDSEG Fellowship
22 March 2024
Second year PhD Student Emily was awarded the 2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship! Wishing her a huge congratulations on this big accomplishment!!
YingYu Lin successfully defends her thesis
14 February 2024
Huge congratulations to the new Dr. Lin on passing her thesis defense!!!! We are very proud of YingYu on this well-deserved accomplishment and milestone.
Gerecht Lab Attends NASA HRP IWS
13 February 2024
Danielle and Marcos attended the NASA Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop in Galveston, Texas, where Danielle presented a poster on our work with radiation effects on vasculature.
Haohao Liu Joins the lab
5 February 2024
We are happy to have Haohao Liu join the lab as a new Master's Student!
Nicole Hanson Joins the lab
9 January 2023
Nicole Hanson, a graduate of UW-Madison in Biomedical Engineering, is joining our lab as a new Master's student! Warm welcome to Nicole!
Ya Guan is awarded AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
22 December 2023
Postdoc Ya Guan was awarded the prestigious American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!! Woohoo congrats!!
Gerecht Lab 2023 Holiday Dinner
8 December 2023
We got the whole lab together for a dinner outing to wrap up 2023!
Complete with wonderful ambience and conversation (and bit of a competitive gift exchange)!
Gerecht Lab Attends BMES 2023
14 October 2023
Our PhD students, Dimitris, Taylor, and Danielle, presented posters and postdoctoral fellow, Dafu, gave an oral presentation at the BMES Annual Meeting this year in Seattle. They had a great time catching up with colleagues and learning about exciting new research in our field!
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Connor Joins our lab
10 October 2023
We are happy to welcome 3rd year PhD Student, Connor Amelung, to the lab! Connor graduated from the University of Virginia in 2020 with degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Psychology, and we are excited to have him continue his studies in our lab.
Welcome to our new PhD students
28 August 2023
We are happy to have three new PhD students join the lab as the Fall 2023 semester begins at Duke this week! Marcos Negrete (middle) and Katherine Tang (right) are transitioning to start as PhD students after previously working as research associates in our lab, and Parker Esswein (left) joins us after graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison earlier this year.
Taylor graduates with her Master’s degree
13 May 2023
We're so proud of Taylor, one of our PhD candidates, for receiving her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering!! A big milestone!
Jiyeon Receives DRC Postdoctoral Award
21 April 2023
Dr. Jiyeon Song, a postdoctoral fellow in our lab, is the recipient of the Duke Regeneration Center Postdoctoral Research Award to Accelerate Career Independence! We are very proud, congrats Jiyeon!
Katherine Awarded 2023 NSF GRFP
30 March 2023
Incoming PhD student Katherine Tang was awarded the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Huge congrats to Katherine!!
Gerecht Lab Attends BMES 2022
14 October 2022
The Gerecht Lab attends BMES 2022! We had a great time sharing and learning about all of the amazing work being done. We had our five eldest graduate students, Danielle, Dimitris, Taylor, Travis, and YingYu, present their research!
Eugenia’s Hooding Ceremony
19 May 2022
Congratulations to Eugenia! We are so proud of her, and it is amazing to get to celebrate her and her hard work with the hooding!
NSF GRFP Awardees
4 April 2022
Congratulations to Danielle Yarbrough and Taylor Chavez for earning the NSF GRFP 2022!
Eugenia Defends Her Thesis
1 February 2022
Congratulations to Eugenia Volkova for successfully defending her thesis, titled "Examining the role of ECM physical properties in sarcoma and pulmonary hypertension"
The Gerecht Lab Arrives at Duke University
1 January 2022
The Gerecht Lab proudly joins the Duke University BME community within the brand-new Wilkinson Building.