FELLOWS 2011

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Zenith Acosta Torres, Florida International University

Host Country, Institution: Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology
Project Title: Engineered cardiac tissue models to study dilated cardiomyopathy

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Nicholas Apollo, University of Pittsburgh

Host Country, Institution: Australia, Bionic Vision Australia, CERA
Project Title: n/a

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Josephine Bodle, North Carolina State University/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Host Country, Institution: Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Project Title: n/a

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Jesse Burk-Rafel, University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, University College London
Project Title: MRes Clinical & Experimental Medicine (Translational Clinical Science)

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David Gau, University of Pittsburgh

Host Country, Institution: Australia, University of New England
Project Title: n/a

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Melanie Gault, Vanderbilt University

Host Country, Institution: Australia, Bionic Ear Institute
Project Title: n/a

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Marie Godla, Harvey Mudd College

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, ETH Zurich/Institute for Biomechanics
Project Title: 3D Bioprinting of Skeletal Tissue

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Ronald Gorham Jr., University of California, Riverside

Host Country, Institution: Netherlands, Utrecht University
Project Title: n/a

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Warren Gray, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Host Country, Institution: China, Peking University
Project Title: n/a

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Allison Hoch, University of California, Davis

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, Universitätsspital Basel
Project Title: 3D bioreactor expansion of mesenchymal stem cells preserves robust stemness properties

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Kelley Maynard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Host Country, Institution: Vietnam, East Meets West and MTTS (Breath of Life Program)
Project Title: n/a

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George McArthur, Virginia Commonwealth University

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, Imperial College London
Project Title: Increasing global access to anticancer therapeutics: synthetic metagenomics for taxadiene synthesis

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Sonia Parra, Yale University

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, University of Oxford
Project Title: n/a

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Peyton Paulick, University of California, Irvine

Host Country, Institution: Germany, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Project Title: Direct Hearing Device - A Novel Non-Invasive Hearing Prosthesis

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Adam Shai, California Institute of Technology

Host Country, Institution: Germany, Humboldt University, Berlin
Project Title: n/a

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Hannah Watkins, University of Rochester

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, Imperial College
Project Title: n/a

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Herschel Watkins, University of California Santa Barbara

Host Country, Institution: Italy, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Project Title: n/a

SCHOLARS 2011

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Jorge Almodovar, Colorado State University

Host Country, Institution: France, Grenoble Institute of Technology
Project Title: Engineering of Polysaccharide Nanoassemblies to guide cell fate, from adhesion to differentiation

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Christopher Barnes, University of Washington Department of Bioengineering

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, ETH Zurich
Project Title: n/a

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Carrie Brubaker, Northwestern University

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Project Title: n/a

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Daniel Buckland, Harvard Medical School/MIT

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, University Hospital of Basel
Project Title: Ultrasound Imaging of Ankle Joints

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Julia Choi, Emory University and Georgia Tech

Host Country, Institution: Denmark, University of Copenhagen
Project Title: n/a

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Ravi Desai, University of Pennsylvania

Host Country, Institution: Germany, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Project Title: Dissecting multicellular coordination of the vertebrate segmentation clock

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Michelle Gabriele Sandrian, University of Pittsburgh

Host Country, Institution: , Medical University of Vienna
Project Title: Gold Nanorods for Contrast Enhancement in Multimodal Optical Coherence and Photoacoustic Tomography

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Sariah Khormaee, Harvard Medical School/MIT

Host Country, Institution: Kenya, Diagnostics for All
Project Title: A Low Cost Liver Function Diagnostic

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Nastassja Lewinski, Rice University

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, Institut de Sante au Travail
Project Title: Oxidative Stress Response to Nanoparticles in an Air-Liquid Interface in vitro Model System

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Jennifer Munson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Host Country, Institution: Switzerland, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Project Title: n/a

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Robert Neal II, Virginia Tech

Host Country, Institution: Australia, Alfred Hospital / Monash University
Project Title: Developing Irreversible Electroporation for Human Patient Cancer Therapy

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Mark Rocco, Cornell University

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, Imperial College London
Project Title: n/a

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Neven Steinmetz, University of Colorado at Boulder

Host Country, Institution: United Kingdom, University of Glasgow
Project Title: n/a

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Aaron Streets, Stanford University

Host Country, Institution: China, Peking University
Project Title: n/a

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Johnny Tam, University of California, San Francisco / University of California, Berkeley (Joint Program)

Host Country, Institution: Spain, ICFO
Project Title: Super resolution microscopy of cellular dynamics

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HuaLei Zhang, University of Pennsylvania

Host Country, Institution: Germany, Technical University of Munich
Project Title: Development of Integrated MR/PET Imaging Schemes for Cardiovascular Applications