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VBL News By Year:

2024:

  • Isabelle Chickanosky, Allison Vorp, and David Vorp interviewed in regards to the Hub for Endometriosis Research.
  • Amanda, Kamali, Ande, and Dr. Vorp invited to present as a part of the RoosterBio Webinar Series in November 2023, "Industry-University Partnership Accelerates MSC & Extracellular Vesicle Based Regenerative Medicine Applications." 
  • Timothy Chung, Cyrus Darvish, Pete Gueldner, and David Vorp receive Center for Medical Innovation award for Delta Cuff.
  • Isabelle Chickanosky, Dr. Vorp, and Timothy Chung, receive funding from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Innovation to continue work on "EndoDx".
  • Katherine Kerr and Pete Gueldner were elected to the 2024 ASME BED Student Leadership Committee as the Online Networking Chair and In-Person Networking Chair, respectively.
  • Timothy Chung, Nathan Liang, and David Vorp awarded Chanceller Gap Fund and Jewish Healthcare Foundation RAPS.
  • Isabelle Chickanosky interviewed by Pitt Swanson Engineering Virtual Newsroom describing the impact seed funding from the Center for Medical Innovation has had on the development of an endometriosis diagnosis tool. ENDODX: A NEW FRONTIER IN ENDOMETRIOSIS DIAGNOSIS.

2023:

  • Timothy Chung, Micah Guffey, Pete Gueldner, Nathan Liang, and David Vorp awarded the 2023 Pitt Innovation Challenge through the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
  • Timothy Chung awarded VentureWell Pioneer Award for Simuclip.
  • Technical team (Tim Chung and Pete Gueldner), Entrepreneurial Lead (Micah Guffey), and Industry Mentor (Chris Niles) awarded NSF National I-Corps Award for Aneurisk
  • VBL High School Student Priyasha Itani (Hillman Cancer Academy Scholar) and mentor Isabelle Chickanosky covered in news articles. 
  • Former VBL member Scott VanEpps earns tenure at the University of Michigan
    • Former VBL member Scott VanEpps earns tenure at the University of Michigan
  • Dr. Vorp and Isabelle Chickanosky win Virginia Kauffman Pain Research Challenge Award for "EndoDx".
  • Pete Gueldner elected In-Person Networking Chair of ASME National Student Leadership Committee.

2022:

  • Dr. Vorp, Timothy Chung, and Isabelle Chickanosky receive funding from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Innovation to continue work on "EndoDx".
  • Ande Marini elected president of Swanson School of Engineering’s Engineering Graduate Student Organization 
  • Pete Gueldner elected vice-president of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate BMES Board
  • VBL undergrad Anna Kelly is Vice President of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Pittsburgh chapter, that won the regional chapter of the year! 
  • VBL has several poster presentations at the 2022 University of Pittsburgh Recruitment Weekend Poster Session, congrats to the best poster award winners!
    • Isabelle Chickanosky, 1st Place
    • Pete Gueldner, 2nd Place

2021:

  • Timothy Chung, Dr. Vorp, and Nathan Liang receive 2021 grant from Neocortex (University of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).
  • Dr. Vorp, Timothy Chung, and Nathan Liang receive PreMIC funding to continue work on "Aneurysm Prognosis Classifier".
  • Dr. Weinbaum served as the Mentoring Chair at the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) 2021 Conference in St. Louis.
  • Ande Marini and Pete Gueldner are named President and Treasurer, respectively, on the University of Pittsburgh Graduate BMES Board.
  • Timothy Chung is promoted from Post-Doctoral Researcher to Research Assistant Professor.
  • Dr. Vorp and Timothy Chung were awarded a R21 NIH Grant: ”A Machine Learning-Based Clinical Decision Support Tool to Predict Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Prognosis Using Existing Longitudinal Data” that will span from 01/01/2021 – 12/31/2022.
  • Dr. Vorp is renewed as John A. Swanson Professor of Bioengineering.
  • Brittany Rodriguez gets 3rd place at the 2021 University of Pittsburgh Recruitment weekend poster session.
  • Amanda Pellegrino begins work in the Artificial Heart Program.

2020:

  • Dr. Vorp, Timothy Chung, Dr. Gross, Dr. Arefan, and Dr. Hwang receiving CAIIMI 2020 Grant for "Cerebral Aneurysm Prognosis Classifier".
  • Dr. Vorp receives funding from NIH for5R61HL154102 "Preclinical optimization and design for manufacturability of immunoregulatory tissue-engineered vascular grafts".
  • Dr. Vorp receives funding from NIH for R21AG061430 for "The Role of Fibrinolysis in Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Aged Individuals".
  • Ande Marini and Pete Gueldner are named Vice president and First Year Rep, respectively, on the University of Pittsburgh Graduate BMES Board.
  • Donation of lab goods
  • VBL is well represented at the 2020 University of Pittsburgh Recruitment Weekend Poster Session, congrats to the winners!
    • Katherine Lorentz, 1st Place
    • Ande Marini, 2nd Place

2019:

  • Dr. Vorp, Timothy Chung, and Nathan Liang awarded funding from Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) (CCA Grant) for their project entitled "Aneurysm Prognosis Classified" ($300,000).
  • Ande Marini named First Year Rep on the University of Pittsburgh Graduate BMES Board.

2018:

  • Dr. Vorp, Timothy Chung, and Nathan Liang receive funding from CTSI Biomedical pilot Award for "A Machine Learning Clinical Tool to predict Biomechanical Status of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm".
  • Dr. Vorp named to ASME Van C. Mow Medal Selection Committee (for second 2-year term).

2016:

  • Dr. Vorp served as Track Co-Lead (University of Pittsburgh Lead) for National Track of the Frontiers Conference with President Barack Obama.
  • Dr. Vorp named to ASME Van C. Mow Medal Selection Committee (2-year term).
  • Dr. Vorp named John A. Swanson Professor of Bioengineering
  • Dr. Vorp was awarded an R01 NIH Grant: "Artificial Stem Cells for Vascular Tissue Engineering" that will span from 7/1/2016-6/30/2020.
  • Soon-to-be new post-doc in the Vorp Lab Dr. Eoghan Cunnane wins Best Poster at #LondonESVS16. Congrats!

VBL News

  • Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Krawiec, who completed his PhD under Dr. David Vorp's mentoring.  His graduation was on Sunday May 1, 2016.

VBL News

  • Congratulations to Alex Josowitz who was awarded the 2016 Whitaker International Fellowship to work and to be enrolled in a graduate degree program at Imperial College London.  Alex worked in the Vorp Laboratory, while an undergraduate Bioengineering student here in Swanson School of Engineering.
  • Dr. Vorp was awarded an R21 Grant: "An Autologous, Culture-Free, Adipose Cell-Based Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft" that will span from 4/15/2016-3/31/2018.
  • Dr. Jeffrey Krawiec and Dr. Justin Weinbaum were co-first authors on this publication just accepted on 4/12/16 in Tissue Engineering, Part A:  " In Vivo Functional Evaluation of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts Fabricated Using Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells from High-Cardiovascular Risk Populations".

2015:

  • Congratulations to all of our trainees for poster award recognition over the last month!
    • Aneesh Ramaswamy won second place in the Tissue Engineering category for his poster: “Smooth Muscle Cell Elastin Generation Stimulated by Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells” at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Annual Retreat, Farmington PA on March 9, 2015.
    • Kory Blose won runner-up in the Computational Modeling category for his poster: Elastin production slows aneurysm enlargement in a constrained mixture model of aneurysm growth and remodeling” at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Annual Retreat, Farmington PA on March 9, 2015.
    • Jeff Krawiec won third place for his poster: Adipose-Derived Stem Cells from Diabetic Donors Cause Thrombotic Failure of Autologous Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels" at the Bioengineering Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend, University of Pittsburgh, PA, February 28, 2015.
  • Ryan Koch has had a first-author publication accepted in the Journal of Biomechanics: "A Custom Image-Based Analysis Tool for Quantifying Elastin and Collagen Micro-Architecture in the Wall of the Human Aorta from Multi-Photon Microscopy". He did this work in the Vorp Laboratory, while an undergraduate Bioengineering student here in Swanson School of Engineering. The full author list is: Koch R, Tsamis A, D'Amore A, Wagner WR, Watkins SC, Gleason TG, Vorp DA.

2013:

  • Dr. Vorp presented: "Engineering Arterial Grafts: Bench to Start-up to (hopefully) Bedside”, as the invited seminar speaker at the University of Arizona, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tucson, AZ, November 2013
  • Dr. Vorp presented: "Jekyll and Hyde: The complex role of intraluminal thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysm", as an invited speaker at Vascular Biology 2013 (NAVBO), in Hyannis, MA October 2013
  • Dr. Vorp elected 2013-2014 Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) of ASME

2012:

  • Dr. Vorp appointed Associate Dean for Research, Swanson School of Engineering, 2012
  • Dr. Vorp elected Secretary of BMES (Executive Committee), 2012
  • Dr. Vorp elected President, International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology (ISACB) 2012-2014. NOTE: Dr. Vorp was the first non-MD president of this society ( www.isacb.org)

2011:

2009: 

  • Graduate student, Donna Haworth, received the University / Post-Secondary Student Award from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Center, January 2009

2008:

2007:

  • Dr. Vorp Interviewed live on Sunday House Call Radio Show with Dr. Barry Dworkin, Canada, September 2007 (580 CFRA)
  • MIRM Podcast on Regenerative Medicine Today #41, October 2007

2003:

  • Appeared in TV news article on KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, PA, “Dr. Maria: Diagnosis and Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm,” April 2003

2000:

  • Syndicated TV news video entitled “Virtual Aneurysms” by Discoveries and Breakthroughs, Inside Science, August 2000

1998:

  • Newspaper article featuring research, July 9, 1998, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Health and Science Section - Computer Model Offers 3-D View of Aortic Weak Spots: “Virtual Aneurysms” May One Day Help in Deciding on Surgery