Recent News
- William Kowalski, Nick Teslovich and Onur Dur published their computational growth model applied to embryonic aortic arch development.
- Prahlad Melon, received the Dowd Fellowship to study neonatal cannula jet flow dynamics, September 2011.
- Congratulations Dr. Onur Dur for succesfully defending his PhD thesis, May 2011.
- Dr. Tolga Coskun from Department of Vascular Surgery, Horst Schmidt Kliniken, Wiesbaden, Germany visited us (November 9-17, 2010) for intravascular surgical planning.
- A microscopy workshop for Pre-Kindergarden students is conducted by our group.
- Our unique three-dimensional, time-resolved particle image velocimetry system with both micro/macro measurement capability is installed in our lab and open to university wide use.
- Kerem Pekkan is a co-inventor of next-generation Fontan baffles for congenital heart defect surgeries US#7,811,244 issued Oct 12, 2010.
- William Kowalski (PhD student) and Nicholoas Teslowich (UG reseach student) presended two podium talks at the BMES 2010 annual meeting.
- Onur Dur (PhD student) received Graduate Biomedical Engineering Research Award, May 2010 at 6th International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion, Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
- Kerem Pekkan has been granted 2010 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation for his proposal "CAREER: Internal Biofluid Dynamics in Embryonic Cardiovascular Development, Morphomechanics and Comparative Ontogeny"
- Graduate and undergraduate reseach opportunities are available in our lab for exciting projects as of January 2010. Please contact Dr.Kerem Pekkan ASAP.
- Next semester (Spring 2010) Biofluids Course will have field trips to the Pittsburgh Aviary in addition to the Aquarium and workshops/visits. This course is an equal balance of cardiovascular fluid mechanics and biomimetic swimming/flying.
- Another outreach activity from our group. We were at ScienceTec at Carnegie Science Center with middle-school students (Pictures).