We
proudly acknowledge the achievements of the members of the Vascular Bioengineering
Laboratory....
2006
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Department
of Bioengineering
Timothy
Maul
First Place - 2006 Poster Winner
McGowan
Institute for Regenerative Medicine Retreat
Category
B: Bioengineering and Tissue Engineering
"In-vitro Assessment of a
Biodegradable Electrospun Vascular Graft Surface-seeded with Muscle-derived Stem
Cells and Subjected to Shear Stress"
Lorenzo
Soletti
2006
National
Institutes of Health Poster Winner
Center
of Urology Research Excellence - Spinal Cord Injury (CURE-SCI)
"Alterations
of Active Mechanical Properties Associated with Histological Changes in Smooth
Muscle of the Female Urethra Using a Rat Model of Birth Trauma"
Rachelle
Prantil
2005
Outstanding Research Assistant Award
Department
of BioengineeringTimothy
Maul
F31
Award - Awarded by NIH in 2005
"Coronary
Arterial Dynamics and Atherogenesis"
Scott
vanEpps
F31
Award - Awarded by NIH
in 2004 (also accepted by AHA)
"Mechanical Stimulation of Progenitor
Cells, Implications for Vascular Tissue Engineering"
Timothy
Maul
F31
Award - Awarded by NIH in 2004
"Biomechanics
and Function of the Pathologic Urethra"
Rachelle
Prantil
Third Place - 2004 MS Student Paper Competition of the Bioengineering Division
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
"Regulation
of Cell Adhesion and De-adhesion Proteins in Veins Perfused Under Arterial Conditions
Ex-vivo"
Mohammed
El-Kurdi
Third
Place - 2004 Outstanding Scientific Contribution
4th Mid-West Tissue Engineering
Consortium Annual Meeting
"The Effect of Uniaxial Cyclic Strain on
Human CD34- Bone Marrow Derived Progenitor Cells"
Alejandro
Nieponice
Finalist
- 2003 MS Student Paper Competition of the Bioengineering Division
ASME International
Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
"Effects of Diabetes
Mellitus on the Biomechanical Properties of the Female Rat Urethra in the Passive
State"
Rachelle
Prantil
First
Place - 2003 Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
Engineering Tissue Growth
International Conference and Exposition
"The Effects of Uniaxial Cyclic
Strain on Human Bone Marrow Derived Progenitors"
Emily
Miner
Honorable
Mention - 2002 PhD Student Paper Competition of the Bioengineering Division
ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
"Regional
Variation of Biological and Hemodynamic Parameters in Distal End-To-Side Vascular
Anastomoses"
Stephanie Kute
First
Place - 2002 MS Student Paper Competition of the Bioengineering Division
ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
"Age-Related
Differences in the Biaxial Biomechanical Behavior of Human Abdominal Aorta"
Jonathan
Vande Geest
Third
Place - 2001 PhD Student Paper Competition of the Bioengineering Division
ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
"Noninvasive
Estimation of Wall Strength Distribution in Human Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm"
David
Wang
