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Team

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Bistra Iordanova, PhD

Principal Investigator
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Yifan Zhao, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Emani Hunter

Bioengineering PhD Student
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Yucheng Shen

Bioengineering PhD Student
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Saba Gharooni Khorrami

Bioengineering PhD Student
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Arushi Singh

Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Bioengineering

Alumni

  1. Noah Schweitzer – Bioengineering PhD student, co-mentored with Dr Howard Aizenstein. Thesis: “Characterization of the Mechanistic Pathways That Link Vascular Dysfunction Disease Pathology”. Noah is currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania.  
  2. Thomas Brower, Department of Neuroscience – Project: “Quantification of tissue plaques and cerebral amyloid angiopathy in Alzheimer’s mouse models using longitudinal two photon imaging.” Currently working on MD at Cornel Medical School 
  3. Kate Leitholf, Department of Bioengineering – Project: “Analysis of sex-specific structural connectivity in 11.7 Tesla MR diffusion tensor images”, current position at RNEL. 
  4. Danesh Thirukumaran, Department of Bioengineering – Project: “Quantification of cerebral iron accumulation and microbleeds using MR susceptibility weighted imaging in Alzheimer’s mouse models”, current position at NIH PhD program in neuroscience. 
  5. Andrew Toader, Electrical and Computer Engineering – Project – “Neurometabolic trajectories of sensory-evoked response and resting state brain connectivity after cardiac arrest resuscitation”, current position – Medical Student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine