Spotlights

David Bruk-Rodriguez

Inspired by family to pursue biomedical engineering

Undergraduate senior David Bruk-Rodriguez was inspired by his younger sister, born partially blind due to a disconnected retina, to study biomedical engineering and contribute to a solution for her vision impairment. Read more

Aminat Modupe Ibrahim

Engineering a better heart valve

Ph.D. student Aminat Modupe Ibrahim is applying a biohybrid approach to develop an affordable, next-generation heart valve for people in developing countries. Read more

Alex Kwan

Welcome Alex Kwan ( 2022 )

Dr. Alex Kwan comes to Cornell from Yale University, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine since 2013. At Cornell, Kwan will apply neuroengineering approaches to the study of mental health. Read more

Erica D. Pratt, Ph.D. 2015

Erica D. Pratt, Ph.D. 2015

Erica Pratt's doctoral work in Dr. Brian Kirby's lab focused on investigating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood system of patients with solid tumors and how these cells can be used as a noninvasive tumor surrogate, and as prognostic biomarkers for survival in advanced disease. Read more

Ashley Pekmezian

Ashley Pekmezian, B.S. 2019

Now attending medical school at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Ashley aspires to be a surgeon. Currently, her research focuses on a novel surgical operation to reduce lymphedema after axial lymph node dissection. Read more