Investigating degenerative tendon disease and repair
Ph.D. student Lainie Eisner was drawn to Cornell specifically for its relationship with Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Read more
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Using tissue engineering approaches to better understand cardiovascular disease
Alex Cruz is a doctoral student in biomedical engineering from New Jersey. He studies tissue engineering approaches to calcific aortic valve disease under the guidance of Jonathan Butcher at Cornell. Read more
Making “smart robotic matter” smarter
What if you could create individual programmable robotic modules that could sense their environment and, depending on what they are sensing, engage in exploratory behavior, signal to each other... Read more
Improving cancer screening through optical biosensors
( If you arrived at this page expecting to find a profile of Ambika Pachaury, click here!) Jesus Miguel Lopez Baltazar has always had a penchant for mathematics and chemistry and possessed a drive to... Read more
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
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
Is there life in Europa's ocean?
If you were going to look for life elsewhere in our solar system, where would you look? For most of us, this is a purely hypothetical question. But not for Sara Miller. Miller, who is a doctoral... Read more
Creating transportation systems that work for people
Tomás Rossetti spent the first 26 years of his life in Santiago, Chile. When he was in middle school the city of roughly six million people undertook a radical reorganization of its public... Read more
Making Bayesian optimization algorithms more efficient
Raul Astudillo wants to help machines and people make better decisions. Toward that end, he studies Bayesian methods for efficient sequential decision-making for problems where there is a nested... Read more
Using math to model complex chemical processes
Luis Nieves-Rosado is interested in how things come together. Those things could be colloidal particles in a suspension; block copolymers in the process of self-assembly; or the staff, students, and... Read more