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Claudia Varela successfully defends her thesis
Claudia Varela defended her thesis on May 2nd 2022. Her thesis “Device-enabled Biomechanical Modulation of the Infarcted Heart” applying new technology to modulate cardiac mechanics in preclinical models. She led this work and spearheaded and maintained fruitful collaborations with Prof. Xuanhe Zhao, Dr. Hyunwoo Yuk, Prof. Robert Padera and Prof. Garry Duffy. Claudia will do…
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Markus Horvath successfully defends his thesis
Markus Horvath defended on April 29th 2022. His thesis “A multimodal approach to investigate the effects of respiration on Fontan flow”. He is an expert on the single ventricle physiology mechanics in collaboration with Boston Childrens Hospital. His work is funded by a Charles Hood Award for Excellence in Childhood Research and an Additional Ventures…
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Keegan wins the 2022-2023 Henry C. (1926) and Frances Keany Rickard Fund Fellowship award from the MIT Office of Graduate Education
Awarded to a graduate student in the life sciences
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Clara Park successfully defends her thesis
Clara Park defended her thesis successfully on April 1, 2022. Her thesis is entitled “Development of a high-fidelity biorobotic cardiovascular in vitro simulator” – Clara did incredible work on organosynthetic in vitro simulators, funded by an NSF CAREER award and a MathWorks fellowship to Clara. She will work in the MedTech industry in Abbott Vascular.…
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Rising Stars in MechE
Ellen is co-chairing the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workship with Prof. Betar Gallant. The Rising Stars event for Mechanical Engineering will take place at MIT from Oct. 28-29, 2021. 32 of the top junior academic women in Mechanical Engineering from around the US have been invited to gain career skills, connect with a cohort of…
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Congrats Dr. Hu
Lucy successfully defended her thesis. She is the first in the lab to defend and set the bar high!. We are all so proud of you Lucy!
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Ellen is co-organizing a mini-symposium at ESMC 2022
Ellen, along with Prof. Xuanhe Zhao and Dr. Eimear Dolan, is co-organizing a mini-symposium at ESMC2022 in Galway, Ireland from the 4th – 8th July, 2022. The abstract submission is open until November 19th.
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Ellen is awarded the Junior Bose Award for teaching.
The Junior Bose Award is given annually to an outstanding contributor to education from among junior faculty.
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Congratulations to Bryce on receiving the Johnson and Johnson NMF Future Leaders in Medicine Scholarship
Congratulations to Bryce on receiving the Johnson and Johnson NMF Future Leaders in Medicine Scholarship! The scholarship is an innovative, 2-year service-learning program designed to expose high performing medical students with analytical skill sets that will prepare them to become future clinician and research leaders with a commitment to address the structural and systemic factors, which cause…
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