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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
John C. Bischof
John C. Bischof
Director of Institute of Engineering in Medicine
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Carl and Janet Kuhrmeyer Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Medtronic-Bakken Endowed Chair for Engineering in Medicine
Contact: bischof@umn.edu (612) 625-5513 Faculty Home Page LinkedIn
Principal Research Engineer
Principal Research Engineer
Michael Etheridge
Michael Etheridge
Ph.D, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Researchers
Researchers
Postdoctoral Associates
Postdoctoral Associates
Zonghu Han
Zonghu Han
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Nano-warming, cryopreservation and Synthesis and Characterization of Nano-materials.
Contact: hanxx949@umn.edu LinkedIn
Minhan Jiang
Minhan Jiang
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Cancer Focal Therapies, Immunotherapy, Drug Delivery System, In Vivo and In Vitro Cancer Models.
Contact: jian0317@umn.edu LinkedIn
Joseph Kangas
Joseph Kangas
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Cryopreservation, Laser Nano-warming, Fast Laser Calorimetry, Computer Modeling of Phase Change and Light Propagation in Tissue.
Contact: kanga134@umn.edu
Lakshya Gangwar
Lakshya Gangwar
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Cryopreservation by Vitrification, Thermal Stress and Fracture, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Cryo-microscopy & FEA Computational Heat Transfer
Contact: gangw009@umn.edu Linkedin
Onyinyechukwu Oziri
Onyinyechukwu Oziri
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Casey Kraft
Casey Kraft
4th year Ph.D Student
Thesis Work: Cryopreserving Cardiac Systems
Research Interests: Cardiac cryopreservation (cells, tissues, organs), cryoprotectant toxicity
Contact: kraft316@umn.edu LinkedIn
Nikolas Zuchowicz
Nikolas Zuchowicz
Ph.D Student - Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Repository development, Cryopreservation, cryoprotectant loading, conservation, coral reefs, prototyping, open-source hardware, 3-D printing.
Contact: zucho008@umn.edu Linkedin
Kieran Smith
Kieran Smith
Ph.D Student - Conservation Sciences
Research interests: Fisheries conservation, developmental biology, cryopreservation, vitrification and ultra-rapid laser nanowarming.
Contact: smit2013@umn.edu Linkedin
Srivasupradha Ramesh
Srivasupradha Ramesh
Ph.D Student, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Cryopreservation, nano-warming, heat transfer, transport phenomena.
Contact: rames088@umn.edu LinkedIn
Researchers
Researchers
Cameron Scheithauer
Cameron Scheithauer
Researcher II, Mechanical Engineering
Ben Fisher
Ben Fisher
Researcher II, Mechanical Engineering
Kenrick Sengmany
Kenrick Sengmany
Researcher II, Mechanical Engineering
Research Support
Research Support
Tam-Linh Nguyen, M.S.
Tam-Linh Nguyen, M.S.
Research Support Manager I, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Drosophila Cryopreservation.
Contact: nguy5104@umn.edu LinkedIn
Alumni
Alumni
Former Ph.D students
Former Ph.D students
Pegah Ranjbartehrani, 2023
New product development - Quality Engineer at Synaptic
Yilin Liu, 2022
Micron Semiconductors
Li Zhan, 2021
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
Kanav Khosla, 2019
Sana biotechnology
Yiru Wang, 2019
R&D Engineer
Baxter International Inc.
Harishankar Natesan, 2019
Sr. Mechanical Engineer- R&D
BTG PLC
Chunlan Jiang, 2014
Principal Scientist
St. Jude Medical
Zhenpeng Qin, 2014
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Saravana Kumar Balasubramanian, 2011
Senior Director, R&D/Operations, MN
Conventus Orthopaedics
Neha Shah, 2011
Research Scientist: Genzyme Providence, RI
Silvia (Jing) Jiang, 2010
Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Edwards LifeSciences
Hossam El-Khalil, 2010
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Ramji Venkatasubramanian, 2008
Caisson Interventional (Startup)
Jeunghwan Choi, 2008
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
East Carolina University
Raghav Goel, 2008
Research Scientist
Boston Scientific, Twin Cities
Venkat Kalambur, 2007
Research Scientist
Siemens India
Xiaoming He, 2004
Professor of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
Nathan Hoffman, MD/PhD, 2001
Pursuing career in clinical Urology
Sankha Bhowmick, 2000
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
U Mass, Dartmouth
Ramachandra Devireddy, 1999
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Louisiana State University
David Smith, 1999
Research Scientist
Boston Scientific, Twin Cities
Former Post Docs
Former Post Docs
Zongqi Guo, 2024
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
Kanav Khosla, 2022
Sana biotechnology
Zhe Gao, 2021
Boston Scientific
Anirudh Sharma, 2021
John Hopkins University
Navid Manuchehrabadi, 2017
Research Engineer
Angiodynamics, Boston, MA
Zhenpeng Qin, 2014
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas
Jeunghwan Choi, 2014
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering
East Carolina University
Willem Wolkers, 2010
Associate Professor, Excellence Cluster, "Rebirth" Professorship for Biomedical Process Technology
University of Hannover - Institute for Multiphase Processes, Germany
Rachana Visaria, 2008
Scientific Reviewer, FDA
Erin Grassl, 2004
Research Scientist
Medtronic, Twin Cities
Bumsoo Han, 2004
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
Franz Schmidlin, MD, 2001
Head of Urology
Clinique des Grangettes, Geneva
Former Master Students
Former Master Students
Feng Liu, 2018
Shaunak Phatak, 2017
Cummins, Columbus, IN
Joel Scheumann, 2017
Connie Chung, 2015
Process Engineer at Samtec Inc., Colorado
Visiting Scholars/Students
Visiting Scholars/Students
Yi Xu, Ph.D, 2013
Associate Professor
School of Medical Instrument & Food Engineering
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Shoji Mori, Ph.D, 2009-2011
Associate Professor
Division of Chemical Engineering Science
Yokohama National University, Japan
Stephanie Passot, 2009 Summer
Associate Professor
INRA
Grignon, France
Xiaocong He, 2015-2016
Institute: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yatao Ren, 2015-2016
Institute: Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Undergraduate Students (*indicates authorship on lab paper)
Undergraduate Students (*indicates authorship on lab paper)
Kealy Ham (1994) *Linda Pham (1995) Margo Maddux (1995) *John Pederson (1996) Matt Schmid (1996) *Sean Josephson (1996-1997) Matt Toyli (1997) *Wahlid Fahssi (1997-1999) Joan Simon (1997) *Chris Huot (1998-2000) Jon Safranski (1997) Raj Kotak (2000) *Todd Olin (2000-2001) Maame Smith (2001-2002) Adam Grovender (2001-2002) Michael Lindow (2001-2002) Jim Zimmerman (2001-2003) Dominique Seetapun (2001-2002) Will Drasler Jr. (Summer 2003) William Stahle (Summer 2003) Matthew Egberg (Fall 2003-2004) Chris Fuchs (2003-2005) *Mie Hagiwara (Fall 2004-2005) Zach Tegels (Fall 2004-2005) *Helena Zec (Summer 2005) *Arjun Mejon (2004-2006) *Emily Ongstad (Summer 2006) Dewi Harjanto (Summer 2006) *Kristen Bartlet (Fall 2006) *Matthew Geeslin (Summer 2005) Al Majkrzak (2006-2007) Michael "Mike" Morrissey (2007) Anne Marie Norman (Summer 2007) Patrick Mathiesen (2007-2008) Yi Nuygen (2008) Brian Yoon (2008) Zarek Schultz (2008) Sarah Jabari (2009) John Buchenberger (2009-2010) Jay Thunstrom (2011) Stephanie Zastrow (2011) Yiqun Wang (2011) Michelle Ip (2014) Christine Ellis (2014) Yuchen Yang (2014) John Van Drasik (2015) Greg Y. Huan (2015) Fred Mottey (2015) Kai Wang (2015) Erin Louwagie (2016-2018) Maria Puff (2018) Leah Gudex (2018) Erin Louwagie (2017-2018)
High School Students
High School Students
Kinnon Nolan Finkel (Summer 2010) Christine Ellis (2014) Cathylin Wang (2015) Aiden Carley-Clopton (2020) Aditya Bhati (2020)
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