Faculty Introductions for New Students
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
2:30 PM-4:00 PM
BIOMED Seminar
Title:
Faculty Introductions for New Students
Speakers:
Andres Kriete, PhD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Teaching Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
John Eberth, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Xiao Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Kurtulus Izzetoglu, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Christopher Rodell, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Details:
Biomed faculty will be introduced and will discuss their respective areas of research, among other topics. Students will be able to engage in questions and answers with the presenters.
Biosketches:
Andres Kriete, PhD, is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Teaching Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. Dr. Kriete received training in computational biology in academic, clinical and industrial environments and joined Drexel University in 2003. His research interests include cell aging, skin cancer, computational modeling, aging pathways, and is a collaborating partner in the Aging Initiative at Drexel University College of Medicine.
John F. Eberth, PhD, is a cardiovascular engineer with graduate and post-doctoral training in mechanical controls, continuum biomechanics, and hydrogel-based extra-cellular matrix mimetics. With a long and rich history of medical innovation, members of Dr. Eberth’s Applied Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Lab (ABML) use fundamental engineering principles to understand, manipulate, and guide inherent and acquired tissue behavior. Using multi-scale and multi-species approaches combined with theoretical and mathematical modeling, extensive experimental verification, and eventual clinical translation, the Eberth Lab’s research centers around the behavior of healthy and diseased blood vessels as they grow and remodel in response to mechanical stimuli.
Xiao Huang, PhD, received his BS degree in Nanjing Agricultural University in Biological Sciences and his MS degree in Biochemical Engineering in East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai China. He then received his PhD degree in Chemistry and Materials at UC Santa Barbara in 2016. There he worked on the spatial control of gene regulation in human embryonic stem cells through light-responsive nanomaterials. He went on to conduct his postdoctoral research at UC San Francisco, working at the interface between biomaterials and immune engineering. One highlight from his work is the development of a robust chemistry to surface-functionalize biocompatible materials with exquisite precision for applications in immune modulation. To date, he has published first-authored papers in Nat. Nanotechnol., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Nano letters, etc., is a co-inventor on 2 pending patents, and has received fellowships from UCSF-PBBR, Li Foundation, and CIRM. He also received the 2022 BWF BioInterfaces Rising Star Award. His future research interest is to develop innovative engineering platforms and analytical methods to advance understanding and control of immunotherapies.
Kurtulus Izzetoglu, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. He received his BS and MSc degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at METU, Ankara, Turkey. Prior to his PhD studies, he was employed by a medical imaging company in the Netherlands, where he was involved in the development of professional, FDA approved medical imaging software packages, implementation of quantitative analysis, and imaging techniques. Dr. Izzetoglu’s research and teaching interests are in biomedical optics, functional brain imaging, human performance, learning, simulation-based training, human-autonomy teaming, medical sensor development, and biomedical signal processing. He has a background in both electrical and biomedical engineering, coupled with experience of developing a highly portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system for use in field applications and translational neuroimaging.
Christopher B. Rodell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems at Drexel University. Dr. Rodell received his BS and MS degrees from Tulane University as part of the historic ‘Katrina Class’ of 2009. He went on to conduct his doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, working on the development and in vivo application of injectable supramolecular hydrogels. Following completion of his PhD, Dr. Rodell was a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, exploring drug delivery platforms for innate immune activation and their applications toward cancer immunotherapy. To date, Dr. Rodell has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, 3 patent applications, and is the recipient of a number of awards, including an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, a Materials Research Society Gold Award, and the Solomon R. Pollack Award for excellence in graduate biomedical engineering research from the University of Pennsylvania.