Ipsita Banerjee
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Email: ipb1@pitt.edu
Phone: 412-624-2071
Fax: 412-324-9639
Office: 930 Benedum Hall
Dr. Joe Candiello
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests: Cytoskeleton Analysis, Atomic Force Microscopy, Drug Delivery
Email: jec40@pitt.edu
Office: 917, BEH
Thomas Richardson
Since January 2011
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests: Cell-encapsulation, Hydrogel, Immuno-isolation, 3D culture
Email: tcr13@pitt.edu
Office: 917, BEH
Hikaru Mamiya
Since September 2012
Department of Bioengineering
Research Interests: Signaling events affecting maturation of the β-like-cell differentiated from human ESCs
Email: him25@pitt.edu
Office: 917, BEH
Vimal Vaidya
Since January 2015
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests: 3D co-culture systems, cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, tissue engineering
Email: vhv2@pitt.edu
Office: 917, BEH
Maria Jaramillo
PhD work
January 2009 - June 2013
Department of Bioengineering
Evaluate effect of physical properties of substrates in early differentiation events, analyzed different pathways implicated in definitive endoderm commitment and their effects in beta cell comment and developed a co-culture platform for endothelial cell mediated hesc-derived beta cell maturation
Post-Graduation
June 2014 - Present
Postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Engineering in Medicine (GMH/HMS)
Hepatic Tissue Engineering with emphasis in use of decellularized liver extracellular matrix for differentiation of pluripotent stem cells and maintenance of primary hepatocytes
Email: maja983@gmailcom
Sankaramanivel Sundararaj
Postdoctoral work in our lab
April 2012 - November 2013
Postdoctoral research fellow
Understand PI3K, TGF-beta and Wnt signaling cross-talk to improve human embryonic stem cell differentiation into pancreatic beta cells
Career after work in our lab
March 2014 - October 2014
Research Associate, Stanley Medical College, Chennai
Isolation of hepatic stem cells
November 2014 - April 2015
Quality Manager, M.V. Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai
Conducting internal & external audit as per the NABL reference, Maintenance of instruments in Biochemistry, Haematology laboratories
June 2015 - November 2015
Assistant Professor, Jaya College of Arts and Science, Chennai, Department of Biotechnology
Involved in teaching Undergraduate & Postgraduate students
Subjects Handled: Bioinformatics & Molecular Developmental Biology
December 2015 - Present
Scientist & Assistant Professor, National College, Trichy, SERB Young, Department of Biotechnology
Pursuing research on hepatic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells towards hepatocytes and co-culture with endothelial cells
Teaching undergraduate students
Email: sankaramanivel@gmail.com
Keith Task
PhD work
May 2009 - July 2014
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Post-Graduation
January 2015 - present
Scientist, Mathematical Modeling. BASF Corporation
Supporting various business and research units across the company by providing modeling support. This includes performing statistical and mechanistic modeling on plant and lab data/systems to help guide experiments and make more informed decisions
Email: kdt123@gmail.com
Saik-Kia Goh
PhD work
September 2010 - November 2015
Department of Bioengineering
Research Interests: Extracellular matrix, Whole Organ Decellularization, Tissue Engineering, Cell-matrix interactions
Post-Graduation
January 2016 - present
Business associate consultant, ZS Associates
As an business associate consultant at ZS, my job is to provide a wide range of sales and marketing consulting, outsourcing and technology offerings to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies
Email: SaikKia.goh@gmail.com
Shibin Mathew
PhD work
September 2010 - January 2016
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests: Systems and Synthetic Biology, Network Analysis, Signal Transduction, Endoderm Differentiation
Post-Graduation
January 2016 - Present
Postdoctoral research fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Gaudet lab
Survival/death decisions in cancer cells in the context of inflammation and HIV infection
| Maya Lemmon-Kishi | Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh | January, 2016 - Present |
| Eloise Parry-Nweye | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh | January, 2016 - Present |
| Bodhisatwa Biswas | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
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January, 2015 - Present |
| Sierra Barner | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh | May, 2013 - May, 2015 |
| Kimaya Padgaonkar | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh | Jan, 2013 - May, 2015 |
| Kelly Donovan | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh | May, 2014 - May, 2015 |
| Manuel Segarra | Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico | June, 2012 - August, 2012 |
| Brittany Givens | Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh | June, 2012 - August, 2012 |
| Phillip Olsen | Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh | June, 2011 - May, 2013 |
| Li Ang Zhang | Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, CMU | June, 2010 - August, 2012 |
| Danielle Yang | Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh | June, 2009 - August, 2009 |
| Courtney Baker | Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, CMU | June, 2009 - August, 2009 |
| Sydney Gibson | University of Pittsburgh, EXCEL Program | June, 2009 - July, 2009 |