November 13, 2024
The CCNY Department of Biomedical Engineering is pleased to invite you to join us on Wednesday November 13th, as we host the Benjamin W. Zweifach Memorial Lecture from 3-4 PM in ST-161 (please note the special location). Professor Bin He, PhD will deliver the Lecture. Dr. He is the Carnegie Mellon University Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Professor of the Neuroscience Institute, as well as a Fellow of the IAMBE, NAI, AIMBE, BMES, and IEEE. The Lecture will be titled "Dynamic Brain Mapping and Brain-Computer Interface".
October 23-26, 2024
A large contingent from the department will attend the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD this week! We will have 7 faculty/staff, 12 grad students, and 10 undergrads in attendance. PhD Program Administrator Brian Avila Klein will be the primary exhibitor at our Booth #1035. The department will also present 8 posters and 6 oral presentations--please see the schedule below. We hope to see you there!
| BME @ CCNY Presentation Schedule | |||||
| Time | Location | Session | Presenting Author | Title | |
| Thursday October 24 | |||||
| 10-11AM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster T15 | Cardiovascular Engineering | Professor Bingmei Fu | A Model for Solute Transport across the Arterial Wall |
| 10-11AM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster X20 | Drug Delivery | Anastasiia Vasylaki (Williams Lab PhD Student) | Development of Mesoscale Lipid Nanoparticles for Targeted Nucleic Acid Delivery to Renal Epithelial Cells |
| 10-11AM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster Y15 | Nano & Micro Technologies | Amelia Ryan (Williams Lab PhD Student) | An optical aptamer-based cytokine nanosensor detects macrophage activation by bacterial toxins |
| 10-11AM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster I17 | Device Technologies & Biomedical Robotics | Matthew Saw/Rayyan Bhuiyan (Bikson Lab Undergrads) | Applications of Wearable Disposable Electrotherapy |
| 2:45-3:45PM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster S9 | Cancer Technologies | Professor Bingmei Fu | Effects of Heparan Sulfate Modulation on Breast Cancer Cell MDA-MB-231 Adhesion and Transmigration across an in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier |
| 2:45-3:45PM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster X9 | Drug Delivery | Adnan Arnaout (Williams Lab PhD Student) | Evaluating Stability of PLGA-PEG Mesoscale Nanoparticles Under Modified Storage Conditions |
| 2:45-3:45PM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster X12 | Drug Delivery | Pratyusha Ghosh (Williams Lab PhD Student) | Formulation of CRISPR Cas-9 loaded polymer mesoscale nanoparticle |
| Friday October 25 | |||||
| 9:15-9:30AM | Room 316 | Oral | Organ on a Chip I | Professor Rezwan Ahmed | A Microfluidic Tissue Array For Personalized Medicine and Drug Screening Applications Using Whole Tissue Explants or Biopsies |
| 2:15-2:30PM | Room 343 | Oral | Cancer Mechanobiology | Eda Biricik (Fritton Lab PhD Student) | A Multiphasic Approach to Assess Increased Interstitial Fluid Flow by Convection in Bone Tumors |
| 2:45-3PM | Room 343 | Oral | Cancer Mechanobiology | Rodrigo Guerra (former Fritton Lab MS Student) | Poroelastic Finite Element Analysis Demonstrates That Mechanical Loading Overcomes High Interstitial Fluid Pressure in Metastatic Bone Tumors |
| 3:30-4:30PM | Exhibit Hall E,F,G | Poster I12 | Device Technologies & Biomedical Robotics | Benjamin Babaev/Ayman Rddad (Bikson Lab Undergrads) | Novel Wearable Disposable Electrotherapy System Design |
| 5:15-5:30PM | Room 317 | Oral | Nanoparticle-Based Nucleic Acid Delivery Systems | Professor Ryan Williams | Extrahepatic gene therapy for kidney diseases via polymeric mesoscale nanoparticles |
| 5:45-6PM | Room 328 | Oral | Lymphatic Engineering in Cardiovascular Diseases and Regeneration | Evan Azoulay (Cardoso Lab PhD Student) | Role of Calcification on Atherosclerotic Plaque Biomechanics |
| Saturday October 26 | |||||
| 1:30-1:45PM | Room 321 | Oral | The Immune Response to Biomaterials | David Alpert (Nicoll Lab PhD Student) | Injectable methylcellulose hydrogels exhibit anti-fouling properties in vitro and mitigate fibrous encapsulation in vivo: Implications for soft tissue augmentation |
August 5, 2024
The CCNY BME PhD Program is hosting newly-accepted PhD students for Orientation beginning at 11 AM in Steinman ST-402. Students will meet with the PhD Program Advisor, Dr. Lucas Parra, the BME Graduate Student Association, obtain student IDs, and register for fall courses.
May 21, 2024
Please join us for our Annual BME Day, which will take place in the lobby of Steinman Hall.
April 11, 2024
At 6 PM, the CCNY BMES student chapter will host an alumni mixer in Steinman Hall C-51. Please join us by RSVP here: https://forms.gle/6kNP8vKcrqbiWEeA9
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