Improving tissue-engineered menisci for replacing torn or damaged tissue
Ph.D. student Serafina Lopez describes her meniscus tissue engineering research in the Bonassar Lab and what she's gained during her time at Cornell. Read more
Spotlights
Making an impact through genetic health innovation and education
Melanie Wallace is an alum of the Lammerding Lab, now improving health and quality of life through innovation at 23andMe. Read more
Addressing the industrialized world's most costly non-deadly medical condition
The most expensive non-lethal medical condition people experience in the industrialized world is lower back pain. Often this pain is caused by intervertebral discs that have degenerated, slipped... Read more
Rooted in community, reaching for a solution to antibiotic resistance
Christine Harper is a Ph.D. student in the Hernandez lab researching bacteria physiology as it relates to antibiotic resistance. Read more
Sophia Ziemian, Ph.D. ’20
Ziemian seeks to understand the underlying mechanisms of osteoarthritis, in order to develop therapeutic strategies that will successfully prevent or drastically slow the progression of the disease. Read more
Young Hye Song, Ph.D. 2016
As a tenure-track assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Arkansas, Young Hye currently directs a lab that uses tissue engineering strategies to study cancer-nerve crosstalk and traumatic neural injuries. Read more
Mary Clare McCorry, Ph.D. 2017
At the Food and Drug Administration through the AIMBE Scholars program, McCorry led science policy initiatives and coordinated collaborations between experts in academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations. Read more
Rose Buchmann, Ph.D. Student
"Diagnosed with a genetic connective tissue disorder when I was 15, I had to go through many different treatments for this disease. I met a team of biomedical engineers at Mayo Clinic who helped me regain my ability to walk, and I knew that I wanted to make a difference in patients’ lives just like they made a difference in mine." Read more
Derek Holyoak, Ph.D. ’18
Now a senior associate in the Biomedical Engineering & Sciences Practice at Exponent, Inc., Ph.D. alum Derek Holyoak's work involves a mix of proactive biomedical research/testing and reactive scientific litigation. Read more
David McKellar, Ph.D. Student
"My research focus is on understanding how muscle regenerates after injury...to design stem cell therapies that could treat traumatic injuries or muscle degeneration in aging patients." Read more