Category: PhD Trainees

Luis Brito E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Mansoor Amiji Biography Luis grew up in Islip Terrace, NY a town on Long Island. Luis has a BS in Human Physiology from Boston Univerisity and an MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Northeastern University. Prior to joining the PhD program, Luis worked at 2 pharmaceutical / biotech companies…

Lara Milane E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Mansoor Amiji Biography Lara Scheherazade Milane grew up traveling between London, England and Carbondale, Illinois. She is a dual UK/USA citizen. Lara has a BS in Neuroscience, an MS in Biology, and is now pursuing a PhD in Pharmaceutical Science with a specialization in Drug Delivery Systems. Lara…

Samira Faegh E-mail: faegh.s@husky.neu.edu Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Nader Jalili Collaborators: Sri Sridhar, Nader Jalili Biography I am an IGERT fellow in the fourth year of PhD at Northeastern University. Studying Mechanical Engineering as a graduate student, I strongly desired to relate my engineering background to life science. Therefore, I pursued my master…

Brendan Flynn E-mail: Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Ruberti Collaborators: Charles Di Marzio, Jeffrey Ruberti Biography Hometown: New Orleans, LA B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University, 2006 Co-op experience with United Space Alliance at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Projects Determination of the sensitivity of collagen fibril formation to static and…

Robert Camp Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Ruberti Collaborators: Jeffrey Ruberti, Shashi Murthi Biography Robert Camp is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University studying Type I Collagen. Robert received his BS in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of…

Julaunica Tigner E-mail: Tuskegee University Department: Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: Tamara Floyd-Smith Biography A Carbon NanoFiber Sensor with Integrated Microfluidics for Detection of Glucose and Interleukin 6 A carbon nanofiber array (CNF) sensor with electrochemical detection is proposed for the detection of both glucose and Interleukin 6 (IL-6), an important biomarker in immune response….

Raquel Feliciano E-mail: University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Department: Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: Oscar Perales-Perez Biography AQUEOUS PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS FOR POTENTIAL BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Nanoparticles (NP) and quantum dots (QDs) exhibit unique optical properties that make them promising candidates for nanomedicine applications, e.g. bioimaging, pathogen detection and photodynamic therapy (PDT). The optical…

Myisha Roberson E-mail: Tuskegee University Department: Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: Vijaya Rangari…

Stacey Markovic E-mail: markovic.s@husky.neu.edu Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Mark Niedre Collaborators: Sri Sridhar, Mark Niedre Biography Graduated from Northeastern University in 2008 with B.S in Electrical Engineering Graduated from Boston University in 2010 with M.S. in Biomedical Engineering My research is to develop a broad-field fluorescence imaging approach using nanoparticle mediated fluorescence in…

Yogesh G Patel E-mail: Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Charles Di Marzio Collaborators: Sri Sridhar Biography PhD Candidate, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 10/03 M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 05/02 B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Projects Understanding optical properties of nanoparticles towards application…