Research Presentation Schedule

Platform Presentations

Fontana: Room 2000

Micro/Nano Medicine

10:45 am-11:00 am: Srija Chakraborty - "Enhancing Immunotherapy via Chemokine-Driven Natural Killer Cells in 3D Melanoma Organ-on-a-Chip Platform in Presence of Fibroblasts"

11:00 am-11:15 am: Basia Gabela-Zuniga - "Humanized Ventilator-on-a-Chip To Monitor Barrier Recovery Following Ventilator Induced Lung Injury"

11:15 am- 11:30 am: Ana Panic - "In Situ Deployment of Therapeutic Extracellular Vesicles Mediated via Engineered Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells for Targeted Treatment of Diseased Tissues"


Fontana: Room 2100

Cardiovascular

10:45 am-11:00 am: Vrishti Phadumdeo -"Data-Driven, Patient-Specific Simulations of Long-term Changes in Heart Rate and its Role in Arrhythmia Formation"

11:00 am-11:15 am: Alexandra Janowski - "Estimates Of RV Strain To Assess RV Function in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension From CMR Imaging"

11:15 am- 11:30 am: Yue Pan - "Validation of Pilot Tone Cardiac (PTC) Triggering against Electrocardiogram (ECG) Triggering"

11:30 am- 11:45 am: Xavier Sieber - "Free-breathing self-gated 5D whole-heart cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at 0.55T"

Fontana: Room 2110

Ocular and Biomechanics

10:45 am-11:00 am: Annie Ryan - "An Electrophysiological Technique for the Diagnosis of TON in a Small Animal Model"

11:00 am-11:15 am: Wade Rich - "Induced Murine Lens Stretching under Hydrogel Compression "

11:15 am- 11:30 am: Grace Hobayan - "Efficacy of SAM vs. Foam Splints for Tibia Fractures"

11:30 am- 11:45 am: Hamid Hamedi - "Lens epithelial cell response to polymer mechanical properties"

Research Poster Presentations

Fontana 2020 & 2040: 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm

Stephen Piatkowski

Delivering angiogenic transcription factor genes to treat ischemic stroke via myeloid-derived suppressor cells

Brianna Mallare

Statistical Measures of Heart Rate Variability from Healthy and Heart Failure Patient Populations

Maariyah Ahmed & Luigi Melaragno

Establishing A Standard for Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Resolution for Patient-Specific Anatomical Models in Mandibular Reconstruction

Anna Wang

Developing 3D Models to Examine Glioblastoma Heterogeneity

Sam Harmeyer

Analysis of Mitral Valve ECM Composition and Mechanical Properties in Marfan Syndrome Myxomatous Valve Disease


Aneesh Zutshi

In vitro model of Glioblastoma to study subpopulation induced extracellular matrix changes

Shivangi Mohta

βIV-spectrin is responsible for orienting concentric versus eccentric cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

Veebha Havaldar

Design of a Controlled Release Mechanism for a Novel Peptide in Nerve Injury

Varunreddy Gopu

Wearable for varicose veins

Shifra Narasimhan

Development of an At-Home Electroencephalogram Device for Monitoring in Clinical Trials