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Class of 2025 BIOMED Senior Design Showcase

BIOMED Senior Design Showcase

Senior Design Showcase

The capstone Senior Design Showcase is our way of providing a forum in which the project engineers (i.e., the students) can communicate their results to the community.

Each biomedical engineering student researches different aspects of the project to shape the design. Our design-centered curriculum cherishes and promotes this active involvement and creativity of the students.

Below you can explore each team's design canvas to learn more. A design canvas is a visual tool to communicate each phase of the design process of how the team designed a viable solution to a real-world healthcare need.

DrExcel Health Projects

DrExcel HEALTH  is a Drexel University College of Medicine student organization that, among other things, recruits practicing medical doctors and teams of medical students to work together with our senior design teams.

It provides an opportunity for our biomedical engineering students to work with doctors and medical students to identify a problem and develop a solution. Participating biomedical engineering teams (noted below) receive additional funding.

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2025 Senior Design Projects
Team 01

SpineAlign: Stabilization Device to Enhance Success Rates of Horizontal Lumbar Punctures in Pediatric Patients


DrEXCEL HEALTH


Design Team: Rose Emily Garzon, Griffin Stein, Anusha Shinde, Hriti Chauhan
Advisor(s): Dr Jaimie Dougherty, Dr Pramath Nath

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 02

3D-Printed PAEK Ankle Fusion Implants for Diabetic Patients



Design Team: Emma Barnes, Lynette Fordwuo, Sylvia Cho, Sebastian Sciacca
Advisor(s): Dr Steven Kurtz, Dr James Smith, Dr Selene Parekh

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 03

Optogenetics Device for Engineering Neural Circuits



Design Team: Sam Price, Matt Jones, Edward Guerra, Alexander Khalifa, Rodrigo Aragao
Advisor(s): Dr Catherine von Reyn, Jana Smuts

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 04

Orthosis Attachment for Stabilization of Wrist During Mobility Cane Use?



Design Team: Ben Harnwell, Anna Betron, Kittana Tran, Meera Rajasekaran
Advisor(s): Dr Sri Balasubramanian

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 05

Open-CRISPR Cas9



Design Team: Jenny Quach, Donna Xiao, Anushka Jadhav
Advisor(s): Dr Will Dampier

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 06

Remote Ischemic Conditioning during Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest


DrEXCEL HEALTH


Design Team: Jacob Donchez, Skye Goldman, Basil Damra, Meghan Willner
Advisor(s): Dr Ken Barbee, Dr Adam Sigal

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 07

Tactile Athlete Preperation Mannequin (TAPMann)



Design Team: Abanob Elias, Aaliyah Greenman, Jason Maatouk, Sarah Vattappilly
Advisor(s): Dr Amy Throckmorton, Lee Throckmorton

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 08

Detecting Sacral Pressure Injuries in Newly Admitted Patients via Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy


DrEXCEL HEALTH


Design Team: Melissa Vuong, Sabrina Frattarelli, Gavin Welsh, Meet Patel
Advisor(s): Dr Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Dr Michael Weingarten

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 09

Patient-Specific PAEK Triflange Acetabular Cup Print and Test Rig Design



Design Team: Emily Hess, Kelcy Putlock, Johan Vasquez Fernandez, Sarmad Khan
Advisor(s): Dr Steven Kurtz, Dr James Smith

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 10

Immunomodulatory Scaffolds for Diabetic Wound Healing



Design Team: Mateo Pascual, Shamyl Khan, Zikria Saif
Advisor(s): Dr Kara Spiller, Dr. Victoria Nash

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 11

Optimizing Assistive BCI Systems for Late-Stage ALS Patients



Design Team: Lindsay Hager, Taylor Connelly, Michael Wertz, Emily Malloy
Advisor(s): Dr Hasan Ayaz

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 12

Analysis Software for OLAF Sequencing Strategy



Design Team: Patryk Lewicki, Chhordaneath Ty Cheatvisoth, Saketh Vempali
Advisor(s): Dr Ming Xiao

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 13

Portable Optogenetics



Design Team: Erin Kane, Olivia Fennell, Artemis Giannopoulos
Advisor(s): Dr Catherine von Reyn, Bryce Hina

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 14

Y type adaptor to allow for higher comfort and easier flushing of drains



Design Team: Nuha Mirza, Natty Lapinski, Joie Chen, James Virtucio, Terry Coley
Advisor(s): Dr Adrian Shieh, Dr Timothy Niesen

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 15

Prototype Non-Invasive Hydration for Automated Water Dispensing in Philadelphia Schools



Design Team: Amal Mathew, Philip Samson, Henry Hyka, Jakob Timme
Advisor(s): Dr Hasan Ayaz

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 16

Allergen Detector for Pediatric Patients with Allergy-induced Asthma



Design Team: Puja Das, Priya Hans, Catie Connolly, Kera Jones
Advisor(s): Dr Joseph Sarver, Dr Pramath Nath

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team 17

Portable UV Detector



Design Team: Barrett Genovese, Thien Doan, Ahmed Azhar, Lara Heinlein
Advisor(s): Dr Chris Rodell, Dr Erum Ilyas

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team TC-01

TGFb Dominant Negative Receptor Equipped CAR-iT Cells for Enhanced Killing in Bladder Cancer Tumor Microenvironment



Design Team: Olivia Carton
Advisor(s): Raisa Kiseleva, Ph.D. and Kara Spiller, Ph.D.

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team TC-02

Development and Optimization of GelMA Hydrogels for Controlled Dual-Drug Release in Chronic Wound Healing



Design Team: Eva Kraus
Advisor(s): Dr Kara Spiller

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team TC-03

Optimizing Anti-RAS Specificity of Engineered bioPROTAC for Rapid Degradation of Undruggable Proteins



Design Team: Shaila Rao
Advisor(s): Andrew Tsourkas, Ph.D. Kara Spiller, Ph.D.

Design Canvas (PDF)

Team TC-04

MicroTraitLLM: A Microbiome-Specific Large Language Model Tool for Researchers



Design Team: Glen Rogers
Advisor(s): Dr Gail Rosen

Design Canvas (PDF)