commencement_booklet_2012

Artwork: Designed by Drexel University students from the School of

Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems and the Antoinette

Westphal College of Media Arts & Design to mark the founding of the

School in 1998. The diamond shape is inspired by the triangle in the of cial

Drexel University Seal and its re ection. The puzzle pieces that make up the

diamond represent the complementary nature of human life and technology,

nerve cells and electronic circuitry, biomedicine and engineering, hence

de ning biomedical engineering.

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COMMENCEMENT and

HONORS CELEBRATION

Wednesday, June 13, 2012. 5:00 PM

Behrakis Hall – Creese Student Center

{Located on Chestnut Street, between 32nd and 33rd Streets}

Program of Events

RECEPTION – 5:00 PM

RECOGNITION PROGRAM AND DINNER – 6:00 PM

WELCOME AND GREETING by Dr. Banu Onaral, Director

Theme: “Inspired Leadership”

SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS

Leadership Awards

• Inspired Leader – Elisabeth Papazoglou

◊ Elisabeth Papazoglou’s Peers – Peter Sten Apell, Irwin Chaiken,

Peter, Katsikis, Peter Lewin, Kambiz Pourrezaei, Aristidis Veves,

Michael Weingarten, and Leonid Zubkov

◊ The Students that Elisabeth Papazoglou Inspired – Charles Ang,

Rosemary Bastian, Armin Darvish, Dave Diaz, Brandon Johnson,

Michael Neidrauer, An Nguyen, Joshua Samuels, Reva Street,

Venkat Sundaram, Chetana Sunkari, and Maureen Wawereu

• Inspired Leadership / Faculty – Margaret Wheatley

• Inspired Leadership / Teaching Assistant – Arpit Shah

• Inspired Leadership / Undergraduate Student – Marko Dimiskovski

and Vanessa Lin

• Inspired Leadership / Graduate Student – Anant Chopra

• Unsung Heroes / Staff – Mary Osbakken and Lisa T. Williams

• Unsung Hero / Faculty – Ken Barbee

Senior Design Team Awards

• First Place Team: Zahra Ahmed, Peter D’Antonio, Elise Krogman,

and Kate Montgomery / Advisor: Ken Barbee

• Runner-Up Team 1: Joseph Bilikiewicz, Drew Cleareld, Dmitry

Dymarsky, and Sonny Sheth / Advisor: Margaret Wheatley

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• Runner-Up Team 2: Kenny Furdella, Jordan Gorczynski, Cathleen

Kerr, and Erica Louie / Advisor: Margaret Wheatley

Service Awards

• Appreciation for Outstanding Service / Peer Mentors –

Peter D’Antonio and Jacqueline White

• Appreciation for Outstanding Service / weServe – Vanessa Lin,

Kate Montgomery, Elise Krogman, Marko Dimiskovski, and

Vince Petaccio

• Appreciation for Outstanding Service / Work Study Students –

Jordan Gorczynski, Cathleen Kerr, Erica Louie, Tara Stebelski,

and Jacqueline White

• Appreciation for Outstanding Alumni Service – Brian Brooks

STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS

• Special Student Recognition / Creative Leadership – Dhairya Pujara

• Student Accomplishments and Highlights

FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS AND HONORS

• Special Faculty Recognition / Translation of Published Paper into

Russian: “Modeling of Diffuse Photon Density Waves in Frequency

Domain” (V. Kuzmin, L. Zubkov, and E. Papazoglou) –

Elisabeth Papazoglou

• Special Faculty Recognition / Presentation at the 12th International

Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in Heidelberg,

Germany on behalf of Elisabeth Papazoglou – Peter Lewin

• Faculty and Staff Accomplishments and Highlights

PRESENTATION OF GRADUATING STUDENTS

REMARKS BY GRADUATING STUDENTS

• Undergraduate Student Speaker – Vanessa Lin

• Graduate Student Speaker – Chetana Sunkari

CLOSING REMARKS by Fred Allen and Margaret Wheatley

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Zahra Ahmed

James I. Andorko

Neenu Baby

Paige M. Bailey

Jeremy D. Bauknight

Joseph F. Bilikiewicz

Ja’Shon Cade

Maureen Claire Campbell

Paul D. Chialastri

Drew S. Cleareld

Adrian B. Curtin

Peter A. D’Antonio

Dionisi A. Daoularis

Sean M. Devlin

Marko Dimiskovski

Yogin Dixit

Sean M. Dowd

Dmitry Dymarsky

Sean C. Eyler

David Grant Forney

Kenneth J. Furdella

Krystle M. Gaco

Peter B. Gallo

Arpit P. Gandhi

Jordan A. Gorczynski

James Margolin Havrilla

John M. Heffernan

Joshua Ho

Mir M. Hussain

Megha A. Kamath

Shruti Vijay Karambelkar

Kritika Santosh Katiyar

Cathleen M. Kerr

Na La Kim

Adam Kozakov

Elise Marie Krogman

Dmytro D. Kyryliouk

Lea M. Landsmann

Regina H. Lee

Vanessa Lymin Lin

Erica Eleanor Louie

Weili Ma

Claire E. Martin

Joseph P. Mathew

Mark W. Mekaiel

Katelynn C. Montgomery

Alicia Morgano

Ankur Nagpal

Sneha B. Narasimhan

Thomas Nguyen

Nicholas D. Padovani

Padmini Parameswaran

Meghal D. Patel

Sneha Patel

Vincent Joseph Petaccio

Bianca P. Pulido

Timothy John Purwin

Lauren A. Scull

Helly K. Shah

Poonam Sharma

Maksim Shestov

Sonny K. Sheth

Tara Lynn Stebelski

Sherri L. Swayne

Tulu Tekmen

Patrick R. Thompson

Phillip J. Tomezsko

Laura Toth

Bhanu K. Trehan

Ashley Y. Twitty

Colin Valentis

Daniel Christopher Visco

Jacqueline J. White

Aaron Yu

Christopher J. Zachariah

Olga A. Zielinska

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2012

Undergraduate Students

BS in Biomedical Engineering

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GRADUATING CLASS OF 2012

Graduate Students

MS in Biomedical Science

Sean Hipp

Harshavardhan Nilakantan

Bochao Zhang

MS in Biomedical Engineering

James I. Andorko

Charles G. Ang

Vasavi Arunachalam

Jeremy D. Bauknight

Ja’Shon Cade

Troy P. Carlson

Timothy Joseph Connors

Sean M. Devlin

Marko Dimiskovski

Dmitry Dymarsky

Brian A. Erickson

Krystle M. Gaco

Jonathan A. Harris

James Margolin Havrilla

John M. Heffernan

Joshua Ho

Yusuf Kanca

Anil Kolur

Sharadh Kumar

Cong Bai Li

Vanessa Lymin Lin

Andrew I. Marshall

Alimatou Mbanya Tchafa

Anthony Patrick Mignano

Sneha B. Narasimhan

Thomas Nguyen

Vishal J. Parikh

Vincent Joseph Petaccio

Saran Phatharodom

Dhairya Nittin Pujara

Mauricio Rodriguez

Lauren A. Scull

Harshil D. Shah

Erica Shwarz

Mihir Prakash Solanki

Bo Song

Tara Lynn Stebelski

Pawan Kumar Suresh

Patrick J. Taggart

Kushal Varma

Rutvi Vyas

Maureen W. Waweru

Jacqueline J. White

Aaron Yu

Chengjie Yu

Christopher J. Zachariah

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GRADUATING CLASS OF 2012

Graduate Students

PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Allison Michelle Andrews

Krishna Priya Arjunan

Andrew James Atkins

Anant Chopra

Peter M. Clark

Manuel A. Figueroa

Nicola Louise Francis

Dane W. Grasse

Fu-Han Hsieh

David J. Jaekel

Seunglee Kwon

Cristin Marie MacDonald

Xiang Mao

Boriphat Methachan

Mark J. Mondrinos

Rochelle E. Nasto

Anmiv S. Prabhu

Hatice Gozde Senel Ayaz

Chetana Sunkari

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STUDENT AWARDS AND HONORS

STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS

Zahra Ahmed, Peter D’Antonio, Elise Krogman, and Kate Montgomery Win

First Place Prize in the 2012 BIOMED Senior Design Competition

Zahra Ahmed, Peter D’Antonio, Elise Krogman, and Kate Montgomery,

all undergraduate students in BIOMED (Advisor: Ken. Barbee / Support:

Hahnemann Hospital), won the First Place Prize in the 2012 School of Biomedical

Engineering, Science, and Health Systems Senior Design Competition for their

project titled “Design of Improved Suction Catheter for the Removal of Particulate

Matter and Liquid Prior to Emergency Intubation.” The team was also selected

to represent the School at the College of Engineering (CoE) Senior Design

Competition on June 6, 2012. The two Runner-Up teams are listed below and will

be honored at the 2012 BIOMED Commencement Celebration Luncheon on June

13, 2012 in Behrakis Hall.

Runner-Up Team 1: “Evaluation of Cell Adherence/Inltration of Ceramic Bone

Graft Substitutes Using a Modied Direct-Perfusion Bioreactor”

Members: Sonny Sheth, Joseph Bilikiewicz, Drew Cleareld, and Dmitry Dymarsky

Advisor: Margaret Wheatley

Support: Stryker Orthobiologics

Runner-Up Team 2: “A Beta-TCP/Resorbable Mesh Bone Void Filler with

Increased Strength for Irregular Bone Void Deformities”

Members: Jordan Gorczynski, Cathleen Kerr, Erica Louie, and Kenny Furdella

Advisor: Margaret Wheatley

Support: Kensey Nash Corporation

Zahra Ahmed and Claudia Gutierrez Receive 2012 Division of Student Life

and Undergraduate Student Government Association Awards

Each year the Division of Student Life and the Undergraduate Student

Government Association recognize the outstanding contributions of student

leaders, student organizations, and their advisors to the Drexel community. The

following students from the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and

Health Systems were selected as award winners for the 2011-2012 academic year:

• Alexander Van Rensselaer Service Award: Zahra Ahmed

• Rising Leader of the Year: Claudia Gutierrez

Lorenzo Albala, Alex Koszycki, and Darshak Shah Receive the DAAD RISE

(Research Internships in Science and Engineering) Award for Summer

Research in Germany

Lorenzo Albala (BS/MS student in BIOMED), Alex Koszycki (BS/PhD student

in BIOMED) and Darshak Shah (BS/MS student in BIOMED) received the

DAAD RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) award for summer

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research in Germany. RISE is a summer internship program for undergraduate

students from the US, Canada, and the UK in the elds of biology, chemistry,

physics, earth sciences and engineering. It offers unique opportunities for

undergraduate students to work with research groups at universities and top

research institutions across Germany for a period of 2 to 3 months during the

summer.

Giang Au Wins First Place Graduate Student Poster Award at Drexel

Research Day 2012

Giang Au, PhD candidate in BIOMED (Advisors: W.Y. and W.H. Shih), and co-

authors Linette Mejias, Vanlila Swami, and Ari Brooks (all from CoM), won the

rst place poster award for Graduate Students in Biology and Biomedical category

at Drexel Research Day 2012 for the project “Assessing Breast Cancer Margin

Using an Aqueous Quantum Dot (AQDs) Enabled Molecular Probe.”

Denariel Benn, Andrew Dimatteo, Marko Dimiskovski, Josa Hanzlik,

and Shirin Karsan Are Featured in a Triangle Story on Drexel’s Science,

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Outreach Event

Denariel Benn, Andrew Dimatteo, Marko Dimiskovski (all undergraduate students

in BIOMED), Josa Hanzlik, PhD candidate in BIOMED (Advisor: S. Kurtz), and

Shirin Karsan, weServe Program Director in BIOMED, were featured in a Triangle

story on Drexel’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Outreach Event, held October 2, 2011 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center,

for Philadelphia area high school students to learn about the sciences.

Joshua Booren and David Diaz Receive National Science Foundation (NSF)

Graduate Research Fellowships

Joshua Booren, graduate student in BIOMED, and David Diaz, PhD student in

BIOMED (Advisor: P. Lewin), were Drexel 2012 National Science Foundation

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) recipients. The NSF GRFP

provides three years of funding and a $30K annual stipend for research-oriented

graduate study in the sciences.

Anant Chopra’s Paper Is Published in the Journal of Biomechanics

Anant Chopra, doctoral student in BIOMED (Advisor: Y. Kresh), published

the paper titled “Reprogramming Cardiomyocyte Mechanosensing by Crosstalk

Between Integrins and Hyaluronic Acid Receptors” in the December 26, 2011 issue

of the Journal of Biomechanics (Co-authors: V. Lin, A. McCollough, S. Atzet, G.D.

Prestwich, A.S. Wechsler, M.E. Murray, S.A. Oake, Y.J. Kresh, and P.A. Janmey).

Andrew DiMatteo, Katelynn Montgomery, and Shirin Karsan Lead weServe

$2 a Day Challenge to Raise Awareness and Understanding of Healthcare

Needs and Disparities

Andrew DiMatteo, BS/MS student in BIOMED, and Katelynn Montgomery, a

senior undergraduate in BIOMED, along with Shirin Karsan, Director of the

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weServe Program in BIOMED, led the weServe $2 a Day Challenge, held April 16-

18, 2012. Approximately 30 weServe student members sought to bring awareness

and understanding of healthcare needs and disparities at a local and global level by

living off of only $2 per day for three days, as nearly half of the world’s population

lives on only $2 a day. The participants built a communal outdoor shelter on

Drexel’s Lancaster Walk and raised approximately $900, half of which will be used

for the weServe International Program, with the other half, along with 111 pounds

of food donations, being given to Philabundance.

Marko Dimiskovski, Vanessa Lin, Shirin Karsan Present Collaborative

Student Service-learning Experiences Paper at the American Society for

Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition

Marko Dimiskovski and Vanessa Lin, both BS/MS students in BIOMED, along

with Alexa Karkenny, BS/MD student in BIOMED, Shirin Karsan, Director of

the weServe Program in BIOMED, P.K. Brahmbhatt (Dept. of Physics), and J.

Bhatt (Liaison Librarian for Engineering) presented their paper titled “International

Biomedical Engineering Education through Collaborative Student Service-learning

Experiences” at the119th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Annual Conference & Exposition in the San Antonio Convention Center, June 10-

13, 2012. Additional distinction:

• Marko and Shirin attended a weServe fundraising event that resulted in $18.5K

in funds from the Mozambique Development in Motion (MDIM) program,

held in Dallas, TX in October 2011. The funds will support Biomed students

for co-ops going to Mozambique, with some funds used for equipment parts

and repairs done by weServe students serving there.

David Forney Receives US Army Leadership Excellence Award

David Forney, undergraduate student in BIOMED and member of Drexel’s

ROTC program, represented Drexel at the U.S. Army’s Leader Development and

Assessment Course and was awarded the Association of the United States Army

Leadership Excellence Award this July.

Jacqueline Gerhart Wins the Best Poster Award at the Bioinformatics

and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

Jacqueline Gerhart, undergraduate student in BIOMED (Advisor: A. Sacan), won

the Best Poster Award at the Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2011 IEEE

International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, held November

12-15, 2011 in Atlanta, GA. Jacqueline won for her poster titled “Reconstruction

of Gene Regulatory Networks by Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression from Time-

Series Microarray Data,” co-authored with Dr. Ahmet Sacan, Assistant Professor in

BIOMED, and Yiqian Zhou, doctoral student in BIOMED.

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Nicholas Grzeczkowski, Andrew Hall, and Chris Veale Are Team Finalists in

the Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship 2012 Business Plan Competition

Nicholas Grzeczkowski, Andrew Hall, and Chris Veale, all undergraduate students

in BIOMED, were selected as one of six team nalists in the Laurence A. Baiada

Institute for Entrepreneurship 2012 Business Plan Competition for their project

“FNIR for Depth of Anesthesia.” They are now eligible to present their business

plan at the Pitch Competition on April 25, 2012.

Josa Hanzlik Is Selected as a 2012 Fulbright Scholarship Finalist

Josa Hanzlik, PhD candidate in BIOMED (Advisor: S. Kurtz) was selected as a

2012 nalist for the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Josa will continue her study

of the interaction of bone with porous orthopaedic implants by working with

collaborators at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Additional distinction:

• Performed a demonstration with cornstarch and water for the Philadelphia

Science Festival on April 18 on KYW-TV (CBS-3) “Talk Philly” on April 18,

2012.

Boriphat Methachan Wins First Prize in the Graduate Student Category

of the 2012 International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE)

Delaware Valley Poster Competition

Boriphat Methachan, PhD candidate in BIOMED (Advisor: M. Wheatley), won

rst prize in the graduate student category of the 2012 International Society of

Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) Delaware Valley student poster competition,

held May 1, 2012 at Villanova University, for the project “Ultrasound Contrast

Agents for Tumor Perfusion Imaging and as Drug Carriers “ (Co-authors S. Evans,

C. Koch, C. Sehgal, S. Schultz, and M. Wheatley). ISPE will support Boriphat to

present his poster at the International Poster Competition during the fall ISPE

Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Kelsey Pagdon Wins Second Place Award for Best Student Paper at the

Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)

Kelsey Pagdon, undergraduate in BIOMED, won the Second Place prize for Best

Student Paper at the Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE), held June 26-30,

2011 in Chicago, IL, for the paper titled “Production of Tc-99m from Naturally

Occurring Molybdenum Absent Uranium.” One use of this technology could

allow for imaging using Tc-99m to be used in places where this technology is not

currently available (e.g., underdeveloped countries).

Dhairya Pujara Wins the 2012 Drexel Graduate Student Association

Meritorious Service Award

Dhairya Pujara, graduate student in BIOMED, received the 2012 Meritorious

Service Award at the Drexel University Graduate Student Association award

ceremony, held May 30, 2012 in the Great Court of the Main Building.

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Additional distinction:

• Lead student organizer of Drexel University’s rst TEDx Drexel U.

conference. BIOMED students and faculty also participated in organizing the

all-day event, held May 16, 2012 in the Bossone Mitchell Auditorium.

Erin Reichenberger Is Selected as an Awardee in the Ford Foundation

Fellowship 2012 Pre-doctoral Competition

Erin Reichenberger, PhD candidate and Calhoun Fellow in BIOMED (Advisors:

U. Hershberg and G. Rosen), was selected as an awardee in the Ford Foundation

Fellowship 2012 pre-doctoral competition, based on her scholarly competence, as

well as the promise that she shows for future achievement as a scholar, researcher,

and teacher in an institution of higher education. The fellowship is sponsored by

the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the

National Academies.

Jasmine Saini and Gregory Schwartz Receive Travel Stipends to Present

at the 2012 Lymphocyte Repertoire Workshop at the Hebrew University

Institute for Advanced Studies

Jasmine Saini and Gregory Schwartz, both PhD students in BIOMED (Advisor: U.

Hershberg), received a travel stipend to present a lecture at the 2012 Lymphocyte

Repertoire Workshop, organized by the European Science Foundation and

the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies, February 19-23, 2012.

Additional distinction:

• Gregory received a travel stipend to the attend the 2012 q-bio Computational

Biology Workshop at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, NM.

Danielle Solomon Wins Third Place in the American Society of Mechanical

Engineers (ASME) Summer Bioengineering Conference PhD Competition

Dannielle Solomon Figueroa, doctoral student in BIOMED (Advisor: A.M. Clyne),

won the Third place prize in the PhD competition at the American Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Summer Bioengineering Conference, held June

22-25, 2011 in Farmington, PA, for the project “Basement Membrane Collagen

Glycation Prevents Endothelial Cell Response To Strain Due To Altered Focal

Adhesion Formation.”

Nutte Tarn Teraphongphom Wins for Best Oral Presentation in the

Engineering Translational Medicine Category at the 5th Annual Drexel

Engineering Graduate Research Symposium

Nutte Tarn Teraphongphom, PhD candidate in BIOMED (Advisor: M. Wheatley)

won the prize for Best Oral Presentation in the Engineering Translational Medicine

category for the poster “Developing a Method for Tracking Ultrasound Contrast

Agent Fragments” at the 5th Annual Drexel Engineering Graduate Research

Symposium, held May 24, 2012 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center.

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Phillip Tomezsko Is Selected as a 2012 Fulbright Scholarship Finalist

Phillip Tomezsko, undergraduate student in BIOMED, was selected as a 2012

nalist for the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Phillip will work in the HIV-1

pathogenesis research lab of a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in

South Africa.

Valerie Tutweiler Receives an American Society of Hematology (ASH)

Trainee Research Award

Valerie Tutweiler, undergraduate student in BIOMED, received an American

Society of Hematology (ASH) Trainee Research Award, which provides support

for medical students, residents, and undergraduates in the form of $4K for a

hematology relevant research project and $1K for travel to the Society’s annual

meeting.

Runqing (Rachel) Wang Receives a Whitaker Undergraduate Program

Award To Attend the Foundation for International Education in London

Study Abroad Program

Runqing (Rachel) Wang, BS/MS student in Biomed, received a $7.5K Whitaker

Undergraduate Program Award, funded by the Whitaker International Program

and the Institute of International Education (IIE), to attend the Foundation for

International Education in London Study Abroad Program in Fall 2012.

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FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS AND HONORS

FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

AND HIGHLIGHTS

BIOMED Faculty Members Receive 2012 Wallace H. Coulter Translational

Research Grants

The following BIOMED faculty members received a 2012 Wallace H. Coulter

Translational Research Grant:

Drs. Michael Neidrauer, Assistant Research Professor in BIOMED, Leonid

Zubkov, Research Professor in BIOMED, and Michael Weingarten (CoM) received

$100K in Coulter funding for the project “Diagnosis of Tissue Damage from

Micron to Centimeter Depths Using Non-Contact Near Infrared.”

Drs. Wan Shih, Associate Professor in BIOMED, Ari D. Brooks (CoM), Wei-Heng

Shih (MSE), and Vanlila K. Swami (CoM) received $85K in Coulter funding for

the project “Near Infrared Quantum Dots for Clear Margin Determination during

Breast Cancer Surgery.”

Drs. Meltem Izzetoglu, Research Assistant Professor in BIOMED, Baruch Ben

Dor, Entrepreneur in Residence in BIOMED and CEO, InfraScan and Peter Le

Roux (U of P Hospital) received $90K in Coulter funding for the project “Non-

Invasive Hand-Held Brain Edema Monitoring System.”

Drs. Karen Moxon, Associate Professor in BIOMED and Michael Sperling (TJU)

received $100K in Coulter funding for the project “Closed-loop Seizure Control

Device.”

Drs. Peter A. Lewin, Richard B. Beard Distinguished University Professor of

Biomedical and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Biomedical

Ultrasound Research and Education Center and Jane McGowan (CoM) received

$100K in Coulter funding for the project “Ultrasound for Localizing Endotracheal

Tubes (ETTs) in Neonates.”

Dr. Hasan Ayaz and Optical Brain Imaging Team Members Receive a

Research Gift from Intel Corporation for Using Optical Brain Imaging in

Human Computer Interaction Settings

Dr. Hasan Ayaz, Assistant Research Professor in BIOMED (PI), together with

the support of the faculty and students of the Optical Brain Imaging Team

at the Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research

(CONQUER) Collaborative, received a $120K research gift from Intel Corporation

for using Optical Brain Imaging in Human Computer Interaction settings, and for

the project titled “A Feasibility Study for the Assessment of Cognitive Workload

and Speech Perception Using Optical Brain Monitoring.”

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Dr. Sriram Balasubramanian Receives the 2011 Outstanding STAR (Students

Tackling Advanced Research) Scholars Program Mentor Award

Dr. Sriram Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor in BIOMED, received the 2011

Outstanding STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) Scholars Program

Mentor Award at the STAR Student Poster Competition, held August 24, 2011 in

the Bossone Research Enterprise Center.

Drs. Ken Barbee, Elisabeth Papazoglou, Karen Moxon, Adrian Shieh, Fred

Allen, and Peter Lelkes Receive an NIH Grant for Streamlining Path to

Success for the Design of Life Saving Devices

Drs. Ken Barbee, Associate Professor in BIOMED (PI), Elisabeth Papazoglou,

Associate Professor in BIOMED, Karen Moxon, Associate Professor in BIOMED,

Adrian Shieh, Assistant Professor in BIOMED, Fred Allen, Associate Teaching

Professor & Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies in BIOMED, and

Peter Lelkes, Visiting Research Professor and Distinguished Calhoun Scholar in

BIOMED, were awarded a 5-year $200K NIH grant for the project, “Streamlining

Path to Success for the Design of Life Saving Devices.” Additional distinction:

• Dr. Barbee was quoted in an article that appeared in the July 22, 2011 online

editions of Nature and Scientic American about recent brain injury research

results. The article references the research of Dr. Barbee, Dr. Devrim Kilinc,

a 2008 alumnus of BIOMED, and Dr. Gianluca Gallo (CoM). He was also

quoted in the September 21, 2011 edition of Nature in an article titled

“Bombs’ hidden impact: The brain war.”

Dr. William Dampier Is Featured in a CNN and Philadelphia Inquirer

Article on Crowd Sourcing

Dr. William Dampier, Research Assistant Professor in BIOMED, was featured in

an article on crowd sourcing on CNNMoney.com on September 7, 2012 and in

The Philadelphia Inquirer on July 18, 2011. The article discusses Dr. Dampier’s

successful effort to nd a more accurate way of predicting how a person with HIV

would respond to antiretroviral drugs. Additional distinction:

• Cited in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News on December 20, 2011

for organizing a competition that had teams develop new algorithms for

predicting progression of the HIV virus.

Dr. John Domzalski Is Proled in a Philadelphia Daily News Article on the

Broad Street Run

Dr. John Domzalski, Research Professor in BIOMED, was proled in the April

20th edition of the Philadelphia Daily News regarding the 33rd annual 10-mile

Blue Cross Broad Street Run, which takes place on May 6, 2012.

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Dr. Gregory Fridman and Colleagues Receive Keck Foundation Grant for

Transformation of Biomolecules by Nonequilibrium Plasma Research

Dr. Gregory Fridman, Assistant Research Professor in BIOMED and Co-Director,

Plasma Medicine Lab, AJ Drexel Plasma Institute, is a member of the team that

received a $1M award from the Keck Foundation for their multi-disciplinary

research proposal for the project titled “Transformation of Biomolecules by

Nonequilibrium Plasma.”

Dr. Uri Hershberg Is an Invited Speaker at the 2012 Lymphocyte Repertoire

Workshop at the Hebrew University’s Institute for Advanced Studies

Dr. Uri Hershberg, Assistant Professor in BIOMED, was an invited speaker at

the 2012 Lymphocyte Repertoire Workshop, organized by the European Science

Foundation and the Hebrew University’s Institute for Advanced Studies, February

19-23, 2012. Additional distinction:

• His paper titled “The Immune System and Other Cognitive Systems”

(Co-author: S. Efron, Weizmann Institute of Science) was translated into

Polish, along with an interview, in Avant: The Journal of the Philosophical-

Interdisciplinary Vanguard.Participated in the American Heart Association

(AHA) Research Roundtable “What’s Next in Cardiovascular Disease

Research,” elding questions from national and international news outlets on

advances made in cardiac repair and regeneration, November 16, 2010.

Dr. Joshua Jacobs and Colleagues Publish a Paper on How Brain

Stimulation Can Evoke Memories in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr. Joshua Jacobs, Assistant Professor in BIOMED, Bradley Lega, and Christopher

Anderson (both from the U. of Pennsylvania) published the paper titled

“Explaining How Brain Stimulation Can Evoke Memories” in the March 2012

edition of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional distinction:

• Published the paper titled “Human Hippocampal Theta Oscillations and the

Formation of Episodic Memories” (Co-authors: B. Lega and M. Kahana, both

from U. of Pennsylvania) in the April 2012 edition of Hippocampus.

Dr. Dov Jaron Is Elected to a Second Term on the Executive Board of the

International Council for Science (ICSU)

Dr. Dov Jaron, Calhoun Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Medicine in

BIOMED, was elected to a second 3-year term on the Executive Board of the

International Council for Science (ICSU). He was the only individual from the

previous Executive Board who was re-elected to membership on the board, which

mainly had to do with the new ICSU initiative on “Systems Analysis for Health and

Well Being in the Urban Environment.” Additional distinction:

• Will travel as a member of the ICSU and the US National Academy of

Sciences delegation to attend the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on

Inspired Leadership

Sustainable Development on June 20-22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Jaron will

participate in the forums on “Human Well Being and Population Health” and

“Urban Well Being” the week of June 10-16, 2012.

• Named Honorary Life Member of the International Federation for Medical

and Biological Engineering (IFMBE).

Shirin Karsan Is Appointed To Serve on the Board of Global Bioethics

Initiative (GBI)

Shirin Karsan, Director of the weServe Program in BIOMED, was appointed

as a board member for the newly established Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI),

whose mission is to establish and promote reection and action on policy debates

in medical and biotechnological sciences, as well as to foster understanding of

the social, cultural, political and legal contexts in which pressing global issues are

addressed.

Drs. Steven Kurtz, Avram Edidin and Implant Research Center Team

Members’ Paper Is Selected as One of the Top Ten Best To Present at the

North American Spine Society (NASS)

Drs. Steven Kurtz, Research Associate Professor in BIOMED, Avram Edidin,

Research Associate Professor in BIOMED, and team members (Kevin Ong and

Edmund Lau) of the Biomed Implant Research Center (IRC) published a paper

titled “Life Expectancy Following Diagnosis of a Vertebral Compression Fracture”

that was selected as one of the top ten best papers to be presented at the North

American Spine Society (NASS) 26th Annual Meeting on November 3, 2011 in

Chicago, IL. Additional distinctions:

• Dr. Kurtz organized with Implant Research Center team members Josa

Hanzlik, Dan MacDonald, Doruk Baykal, David Jaekel (all Ph.D. Candidates in

BIOMED), Michael Beeman (Research Coordinator), and Genymphas Higgs

(Undergraduate Researcher) the 5th Annual Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight

Polyethylene (UHMWPE) International Meeting, held September 22-23 in

Drexel’s Bossone Research Enterprise Center.

• Cited in an article in the online publication AsiaOne on December 4, 2011 for

his research on baby boomers’ need for joint replacements.

Dr. Shirley Kutner Is Honored for her Four Years of Service with the

America Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC)

Dr. Shirley Kutner, Entrepreneur in Residence and Strategic Consultant to the

Health Innovation Partnership in BIOMED, was honored for her four years of

service to the community and staff by the America Israel Chamber of Commerce

(AICC) at the 25th Anniversary Rabin Award dinner on April 16, 2012 at the

Crystal Tea Room in Philadelphia, PA.

Inspired Leadership

Drs. Peter Lewin and Elisabeth Papazoglou Receive an NSF Grant for

Their Non Invasive Ultrasound Assisted Delivery of Drug Loaded Intact

Liposomes Project

Drs. Peter A. Lewin, Richard B. Beard Distinguished University Professor of

Biomedical and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director, Biomedical

Ultrasound Research and Education Center (PI), Elisabeth Papazoglou, Associate

Professor in BIOMED (Co-PI), and Steven Wrenn, Associate Professor in CoE

(Co-PI), received a 3-year $330K NSF grant for the project titled “Non Invasive

Ultrasound Assisted Delivery of Drug Loaded Intact Liposomes: A Combined

Experimental and Modeling Approach.” Drs. Lewin and Wrenn would like to

acknowledge Dr. Elisabeth Papazoglou’s contribution to this project, whose

leadership skills and research expertise are sorely missed due to her untimely death.

Additional distinctions:

• Drs. Lewin, Papazoglou, and Weingarten obtained an additional year of a

5-year $2.1M NIH funding for the project “Acousto-Optic Theragnostic

Approach to Chronic Wound Management.

• Drs. Lewin, Papazoglou, and colleagues (Co-authors Y. Sunny, C. Bawiec,

A. Nguyen, J. Samuels, L. Zubkov, and M. Weingarten) published the paper

titled “Optimization of Un-tethered, Low Voltage, 20-100 KHz Flexural

Transducers for Biomedical Ultrasonics Applications” in the Journal of

Ultrasonics.

• Inducted as a Fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Medical

and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) in recognition of his distinguished

contributions to the eld of medical and biological engineering. Dr. Lewin

was also commended for serving as ultrasound exposimetry expert on the

Technical Committee of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

• Presented the paper titled “Customized and Noninvasive Transcutaneous

Drug Transport: Will Ultrasound Deliver?” (Co-authors: E. Papazoglou, A.

Nguyen, S. Wrenn, Y. Sunny, Ch. Bawiec, J. Samuels, L. Zubkov), at the 12th

International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) in Heidelberg,

Germany.

Dr. Hualou Liang Is Elected to the American Institute for Medical and

Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows

Dr. Hualou Liang, Professor in BIOMED, was elected to the College of Fellows

of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). The

major criterion for admission to the AIMBE College of Fellows is a demonstrable

record of individual achievement in research, development, education,

manufacturing, public service, technological leadership and/or clinical practice as

they relate to medical and biological engineering.

Inspired Leadership

Dr. Donald McEachron and Colleagues Publish Paper on Disseminating

and Evaluating Best Practices in Education in the International Journal of

Information and Learning Technology

Dr. Donald McEachron, Research Professor and Associate Director in BIOMED,

Dr. Craig Bach, Associate Vice Provost for Curriculum and Assessment, and

Mustafa Sualp, President of AEFIS and Untra Corporation, published the

paper titled “Digital Socrates: A System for Disseminating and Evaluating Best

Practices in Education” in the International Journal of Information and Learning

Technology – Campus-Wide Information Systems. The paper was selected from

a group of highly regarded articles presented at the International Conference

on Engineering Education (ICEE) 2011 in Belfast, Ireland, August 21-26, 2011.

Additional distinction:

• Presented with Gena Ellis (CoMAD) their Coulter funded project on

redesigning the environment for the elderly through the creative use of light

and color to improve circadian function, at the Health in Place Board of

Directors meeting in Philadelphia on February 28, 2012.

Dr. Anna Merzagora’s Paper on Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Is Selected as One of the Top Ten Papers from the Journal of Innovative

Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS) in 2011

Dr. Anna Merzagora, Research Assistant Professor in BIOMED, authored the

paper titled “Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Assessment of

Attention Impairments After Traumatic Brain Injury,” which was selected as one of

the top ten papers from Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (JIOHS) in

2011 (A. Merzagora, M. Schultheis, B. Onaral and M. Izzetoglu).

Dr. Karen Moxon and Team Members Are Selected as One of Ten Project

Finalists Invited for the Fourth Round of the Science Center QED Funding

Awards

Dr. Karen Moxon, Associate Professor in BIOMED (PI), and team members were

selected as one of ten project nalists invited for the fourth round of the Science

Center QED funding awards. Additional distinctions:

• Elected to become a 2012-2013 Executive Leadership in Academic

Technology and Engineering (ELATE) Fellow for the inaugural class selected

from academic engineering and technology’s most promising women leaders.

• Published with Guglielmo Foffani, Research Associate Professor in BIOMED

and at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain, the article titled

“Trial-to-Trial Variability in the Responses of Neurons Carries Information

about Stimulus Location in the Rat Whisker Thalamus” for publication in the

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Inspired Leadership

Dr. Banu Onaral Organizes Drexel Delegation’s Visit to Turkey in Support

of Translational Research Partnerships

Dr. Banu Onaral, H. H. Sun Professor and Director, School of Biomedical

Engineering, Science and Health Systems, organized a trip to Turkey for a

Drexel University delegation that President John Fry led through a ve-day tour of

Turkey’s epicenters for research and technological innovation. The delegation

consisted of University administrators, BIOMED and CoE faculty, and

representatives from Duke University and The Johns Hopkins University and

industry partners. The Innovation Partnership Forum Delegation spent time at

some of the nation’s top universities, visited innovative “technoparks” and

participated in a national biomedical engineering summit. Additional distinctions:

• Participated in the inauguration of the Drexel-Shanghai Advanced Research

Institute (SARI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, held October 19,

2011 in Shanghai, China. A key aspect of this ‘innovation partnership’ is to

collaborate on the establishment of a ‘translational research partnership’

program inspired by the Coulter model to commercialize the ongoing research

ongoing at SARI. She also led, with Davood Tashayyod, Coulter Program

Director in BIOMED, a workshop on ‘translational research partnership,’

inspired by the Coulter Model at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).

• Committed $30K in support over two years from BIOMED for the Shima

Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory of Genevieve Dion, Assistant Professor

and Fashion Design Program Director in CoMAD. The state-of-the-art

laboratory is used to conduct research for the development of new smart

textiles and wearable technologies, and to explore new methods of production

that will ultimately impact a number of market sectors.

• Honored by the Israel Chamber of Commerce on November 15, 2011 at the

US - Israel Healthcare Technology Conference Kick-off. Dr. Onaral is one of

the founding members of the Drexel University-Hebrew University research

HUB and was mentioned in the Jewish Exponent for her work with health-

related collaborations between Israel and the Greater Philadelphia region.

Drs. Elisabeth Papazoglou and Peter Lewin Receive Drexel University-

Institute for Drug Research (DU-IDR) Funding for Their Ultrasound

Assisted Transdermal Delivery of Drug-loaded Liposomes Project

Drs. Elisabeth Papazoglou, Associate Professor in BIOMED, Peter A. Lewin,

Richard B. Beard Distinguished University Professor of Biomedical and Electrical

and Computer Engineering, Director, Biomedical Ultrasound Research and

Education Center, Steven P. Wrenn (C&BE), Eylon Yavin (IDR), and Philip

Lazarovici (IDR), received $50K in Drexel University-Institute for Drug Research

(DU-IDR) funding for the project “Ultrasound Assisted Transdermal Delivery of

Drug-loaded Liposomes Tagged with NIR Dye for Non-invasive Administration

of Arthritis Treatments.”

Inspired Leadership

Dr. Rami Seliktar Is Appointed Editor in Chief of the Journal of

Bioengineering and Biomedical Science

Dr. Rami Seliktar, Professor and Vice Director of BIOMED, was appointed Editor

in chief of the journal of Bioengineering and Biomedical Science. Additional

distinctions:

• Co-chaired the joint Bi-national Symposium on Translational Research in

Biomedicine and Bioengineering, jointly organized by the Hebrew University,

Institute for Drug Research, and Drexel University, held January 29-31, 2012 in

Jerusalem, Israel.

• Member of the Drexel University Delegation that was led by President John

Fry to the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion), July 4-11, 2011.

Drs. Patricia Shewokis, Kurtulus Izzetoglu and Meltem Izzetoglu Receive an

NSF Human-Centered Computing Program Grant

Drs. Patricia Shewokis, Professor in CoNHP with a joint appointment in BIOMED

(Co-PI), Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Research Assistant Professor in BIOMED, Meltem

Izzetoglu, Research Assistant Professor in BIOMED, and team members were

awarded a 4-year $1.2M NSF Human-Centered Computing Program grant for the

project “Improved Control and Sensory Feedback for Neuroprosthetics.” The

collaborative research grant includes researchers from Rice University (Dr. Marcia

O’Malley) and the Universities of Maryland (Dr. Jose Contreras-Vidal) and

Michigan (Dr. Brent Gillespie). The project goal is to design a prosthetic arm that

allows amputees to feel what they touch. Additional distinctions:

• Dr. Shewokis was featured, along with Drexel’s Cognitive Neuroengineering

and Quantitative Experimental Research (CONQUER) lab, in a WHYY/

Newsworks story on how brain imaging could lead to the development of

“smart” prosthetics as articial limbs controlled directly by the brain.

• Cited in a NY Times article on NBC News and Sports bringing the ‘Science

of NHL Hockey’ to TVs and classrooms. NBC aired a video in which Dr.

Shewokis explained the science behind reexes, reaction time, and linear

motion.

Dr. Adrian Shieh and Colleague Receive a 2012 DrexelMed Commonwealth

Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) Award

Dr. Adrian Shieh, Assistant Professor in BIOMED (PI), and Michael

Bouchard (Co-PI – CoM) received a 2012 DrexelMed Commonwealth

Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) Award for their project

“Interactive Roles of Interstitial Flow and Hepatitis B Virus in Liver Cancer

Progression.”

Inspired Leadership

Dr. Wan Shih Is Cited in the January Issue of Medical Design Briefs for

Her Breast Cancer Detection Device

Dr. Wan Shih, Associate Professor in BIOMED, was cited in an article in

the January issue of Medical Design Briefs regarding her project titled

“Portable, Low-Cost, Radiation-Free Breast Cancer Detector for Dense Breasts”

(W.Y. Shih, A. Brooks, W.H. Shih, and L. Komarnicky). The project was selected

as one of the inaugural projects for the University City Science Center’s QED

program, a proof-of-concept development grant that helps academic researchers

reach the marketplace.

Dr. Aydin Tozeren Is Awarded a Research Contract Extension from

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Dr. Aydin Tozeren, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Integrated

Bioinformatics, was awarded a $95K research contract extension from

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), as part of the Drexel-GSK Bioinformatic Research

Alliance. Additional distinctions:

• Received with Michael Bouchard (PI – CoM), and Laura Steel (Co-PI – CoM)

a 2012 DrexelMed Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE)

Award for their project “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Directly Identify

Changes in the miRNA-Targeted mRNA Population Induced by HBV

Infection.”

• Will present “Bioinformatics as a Tool for Deciphering the Grammar of

Crosstalk between Host and Pathogen” at the 2012 International Symposium

on Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease at the Institute for Molecular

Medicine and Infectious Disease (IMM&ID) in CoM, June 19-21, 2012.

• Appointed as manager of the Bioinformatics Core at the Jefferson Kimmel

Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA.

• Published the following articles: 1) “Bioinformatics Analysis Reveals

Transcriptome and MicroRNA Signatures and Drug Repositioning Targets for

IBD and Other Autoimmune Diseases” (P. Clark, N. Dawany, W. Dampier,

S. Byers, R. Pestell, A. Tozeren) in the Journal Inammatory Bowel Diseases;

2) “Identication of Common Biological Pathways and Drug Targets Across

Multiple Respiratory Viruses Based on Human Host Gene Expression

Analysis” (S. Smith, W. Dampier, A. Tozeren, J. Brown, M. Magid-Slav) in

the Public Library of Science (PLoS) One; 3) “ChIP Sequencing of Cyclin

D1 Reveals a Transcriptional Role in Chromosomal Instability in Mice” (M.

Casimiro, M. Crosariol, E. Loro, A. Ertel, Z. Yu, W. Dampier, E. Saria, A.

Papanikolaou, T. Stanek, Z. Li, C. Wang, P. Fortina, S. Addya, A. Tozeren, E.

Knudsen, A. Arnold, R. Pestell) in the Journal of Clinical Investigation; and

4) “HIV Protein Sequence Hotspots for Crosstalk with Host Hub Proteins”

(M. Sarmady, W. Dampier, A. Tozeren) in the PLoS One.

Inspired Leadership

Dr. Margaret Wheatley and Her Research Group Mentored Student

Wins the Joint First Prize in the NSF Research Experiences for

Undergraduates (REU) Student Poster Competition

Dr. Margaret Wheatley, John M. Reid Professor in BIOMED, and her

research group mentored Summer Sensors Program participant Ryan

Judd, undergraduate student in bioengineering at the U. of Missouri,

won the joint rst prize in the NSF Research Experiences for

Undergraduates (REU) student poster competition, held August 11, 2011 in

the Bossone Research Enterprise Center, for the project “Steps Toward

Developing a Stealth Ultrasound Contrast Agent” (R. Judd, J. Andorko, M.

Wheatley). Additional distinction:

• Quoted in a May 28th Phys.org news blog post about the viability of mass-

producing microcapsules in microgravity. NASA has been testing the process

of combining liquids in zero gravity to produce microcapsules for drug

delivery since 1998.

InfraScanner Is Selected as the Product Innovation of the Year and UE

LifeSciences as a Life Sciences Startup Awardee by the Philadelphia Alliance

for Capital and Technologies (PACT)

InfraScanner, a hand-held, point-of-care device developed in part by a

team in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

to be used in emergency rooms to detect bleeding in traumatic brain injury,

was selected as the Product Innovation of the Year by the Philadelphia

Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT). Dr. Baruch Ben Dor,

Entrepreneur in Residence in BIOMED, received the award on behalf of

the InfraScanner team, which includes Dr. Banu Onaral, H. H. Sun

Professor and Director, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and

Health Systems, and Drs. Hasan Ayaz, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, and Meltem Izzetoglu

(all Research Assistant Professors in BIOMED). The award was presented at the

19th Annual PACT Enterprise Awards ceremony in May 3, 2012 at the Hilton

Philadelphia. UE LifeSciences, another BIOMED spinoff rm, was selected to

receive a Life Sciences Startup award at the ceremony as well. In addition,

Pennsylvania BIO, the trade organization of life science companies in

Pennsylvania, selected the Infrascanner for the 2012 Patient Impact Award

at its Annual Gala meeting on March 20, 2012.