Edelman Lab Graduate Students

EDELMAN LAB GRADUATE STUDENTS

Brinda Balakrishnan, Ph.D.-M.D. Candidate in medical engineering and medical physics.
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics and mass transfer modeling of drug delivery from stents.

Research Interests: Visualization of enzyme activity.

Selected Publications:

Balakrishnan B, Dooley J, Kopia G, Edelman ER. Thrombus causes fluctuations in arterila drug delivery from intravascular stents. J Control Release 2008 Nov; 131(3):173-180. [PDF]

Balakrishnan B, Dooley J, Kopia G, Edelman ER. Intravascular drug release kinetics dictate arterial drug deposition, retention, and distribution. J Control Release 2007 Nov; 123(2):100-108.[PDF]

Balakrishnan B, Tzafriri AR, Seifert P, Groothuis A, Rogers C, Edelman ER. Strut position, blood flow, and drug deposition: implications for single and overlapping drug-eluting stents. Circulation 2005 Jun 7;111(22):2958-65. [PDF]

Michael J. Feldstein, Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; M.D. Candidate at the Harvard Medical School (HST)
Research Interests: Quantitative analysis and modeling of microembolic phenomena.

Kay Furman , Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.
Research Interests: Biomaterial-induced vascular injury.

Joseph Franses, M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.
Research Interests: Applications of cardiovascular tissue engineering and continuum mechanics to oncology.

Kha Le, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.
Research Interests: Myocardial drug delivery and transport processes in highly vascularized tissues.

Hector Mobine, Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering.
Research Interests: Tumor biology.

Mobine H, Baker A, Wang L, Wakimoto H, Jacobsen K, Seidman C, Seidman J, Edelman ER. Pheochromocytoma-Induced Cardiomyopathy is Modulated by the Synergistic Effects of Cell-Secreted Factors. Circ Heart Fail 2009:1-16. [PDF]

Mobine H, Engelmayr G, Moussazadeh N, Anwar T, Freed L, Edelman ER. Encapsulated pheochromocytoma cells secrete potent non-catecholamine factors. Tissue Engineering Part A 2009 Jul;15(7):1719-28.[PDF]

Sylaja Murikipudi, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.
Research Interests:

Neda Vukmirovic, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.
Research Interests: Drug transport across diseased arteries.

Selected Publications:

Levin AD, Vukmirovic N, Hwang CW, Edelman ER. Specific binding to intracellular proteins determines arterial transport properties for rapamycin and paclitaxel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2004 Jun 22;101(25):9463-7. [PDF]

Peter Wu, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics.

Office hours: 10pm - 5am in imaging room.
Research Interests: Mass transfer in contractile tissues.

Selected Publications:

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