News

13 December 2024

Wrapping up the year with our winter holiday party!! Good food, drinks, and company had all around!

 

 

 

23-26 October 2024

We had a great time attending and presenting our work at the 2024 Annual BMES Meeting in Baltimore! We had 5 PhD students, 1 postdoctoral fellow, and 1 undergraduate all present their work at the conference.

       

 

 

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!

 

 

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.

 

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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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!!

 

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.

 

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.

5 February 2024

We are happy to have Haohao Liu join the lab as a new Master's Student!

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!

22 December 2023

Postdoc Ya Guan was awarded the prestigious American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!! Woohoo congrats!!

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)!

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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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.

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.