People

Principal Investigator

Andrés García
Executive Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience

Research Staff

Graham Barber
Research Technician
Eric O'Neill
Research Technician

Postdoctoral Fellows

Maria Coronel
Marc Fernandez
Woojin Han
Pranav Kalelkar

Graduate Students

Nico Beskid
Co-Supervisor: Julie Babensee
Hydrogel-Delivered Tolerized Dendritic Cells for Amelioration of Multiple Sclerosis
Jeremy Caplin
Lysostaphin-delivering hydrogels for infection mitigation and bone regeneration
Mark Colasurdo
Vinculin Mechanotransduction in 3D PEG-4MAL Hydrogels
Elijah Holland
Elucidating the conversion of mechanical forces, at focal adhesions, to biochemical signals
Michael Hunckler
Stem cell–derived β cell maturation and engraftment with synthetic matrices for diabetes cellular therapies
Lauren Liebman
Co-Supervisor: Brandon Dixon
Lina Mancipe Castro
Co-Supervisor: Bob Guldberg
Tissue-specific small molecule drug delivery system for the intra-articular treatment of osteoarthritis
Karen Martin
Biomaterial-directed mesenchymal stem cell immunomodulation and bone regeneration in immunocompetent mouse models
Claire Mcclain
Co-Supervisor: Ed Botchwey
Juan Medina
Immunomodulatory Biomaterials for Type 1 Diabetes
Sahitya Movva
Microfluidic microgels for protein and cell therapeutic delivery
Michelle Quizon
Multi-layered, immunoisolating macrodevice for type one diabetes mellitus
Becky Schneider
Tissue-on-a-chip platform for Mesenchymal Stem Cell potency assay
Dennis Zhou
Force-Signaling Coupling at Focal Adhesions

Alumni Postdoc

Rachit Agarwal
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science
I-Ming Chung
Research Associate
King’s College, London, UK
Greg Foster
Ph.D.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Christina Gonzalez
Lecturer
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Imen Hannachi
Director
Biotech BD
Susan Lehman
Senior Scientist
AmpliPhi Biosciences
Shivaram Selvam
Faculty Fellow
Sree Chitra Tirunal for Medical Sciences & Technology
Heungsoo Shin
Professor
Hanyang University, South Korea
Ankur Singh
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Shalu Suri
Reseach Associate
Cornell University
Tiago Volkmer
Professor do Curso de Engenharia de Materiais
UNIFRA, Brasil
Jessica Weaver
Assistant Professor Arizona State University

Alumni Students

Amanda Bridges
Regulatory Affairs Professional
W.L. Gore & Associates
Ben Byers
Strategic Project Manager
DePuy-Mitek
Jeff Capadona
Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Efrain Cermeno
Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
Joe Charest
Senior Member, Technical Staff
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Amy Clark
Product Specialist
W. L. Gore & Associates
Sean Coyer
Leader Digital Health Innovations and Ventures, Gore Innovation Center
W. L. Gore & Associates
Ricardo Cruz
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
David Dumbauld
Product Specialist
W. L. Gore & Associates
Nduka Enemchukwu
Postdoc Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine
Chimdimnma Esimai
Co-coordinator, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Center for Engineering Education and Diversity
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nathan Gallant
Associate Professor
University of South Florida
Jose Garcia
Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
Charles Gersbach
Professor
Duke University
Stacie Gutowski
Biomedical Engineer
FDA
Devon Headon
Senior Process Development Engineer
Dexcom
Christopher Johnson
MD/PhD,Emory School of Medicine
Benjamin Keselowsky
Professor
University of Florida
Ted Lee
Senior Biomaterial Scientist
Dexcom
Kristin Michael (Deceased)
formerly Group Leader
Institut für Schichten und Grenzflächen, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Tim Petrie
Senior Member Of Technical Staff
Charles Stark Draper Laboratories
Edward Phelps
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Jennifer Phillips
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Reyes
Education and Outreach Director
Triangle MRSEC at Duke University
Apoorva Salimath
Senior Manager Customer Consulting
Cox Automotive Inc.
Asha Shekaran
Lead Biological Scientist
Engine Bioscience
Rachel Whitmire
Science writer
RA Capital Management
Abbey Wojtowicz
Associate Director, Global Program Management
Takeda Pharmaceuticals