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Ho Lab Members
 The Nanoscale Biotic-Abiotic Systems Engineering Group
under the direction of Professor Dean Ho

N-BASE Group - Winter Group Lunch
Principal Investigator

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Dean Ho, Ph.D.
d-ho@northwestern.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Bioengineering
M.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Bioengineering
B.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Physiological Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Dean Ho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Member, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Tech Institute D155
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone 847-467-0548
Mobile 310-570-0750
Fax 847-491-3915
d-ho@northwestern.edu
www.n-base.org
Postdoctoral Researchers
Erik D. Pierstorff, Ph.D.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
B.S. Emory University (Conferred with Highest Honors) Biology
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Research Project:
- Interrogation of Cyto-Regulatory Pathway Activation via Micro/Nanofabricated Systems
- Protein-Functionalized Nanovesicular Architectures for Botulinum Toxin Detection
Houjin Huang, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chemistry
M.S. East China University of Science and Technology,Chemistry
B.S. East China University of Science & Technology,Chemistry
Research Scientist, Sony Corporation
Research Project:
- Development of Novel Functionalized Nanodiamond Materials for Cancer Therapeutics
- Applications of Nanodiamond/One-Dimensional Nanostructures Towards Bio-Interrogation/Control
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Robert Lam
Research Project: Polymer-encapsulated nanomaterial matrices for optimized drug delivery |
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Erik Robinson
Research Project: Dix-A mediated multi-therapeutic elution |
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Karen Liu
Research Project: Nanomembrane platforms for diagnostics and nano-engineered medicine |
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Rafael Shimkunas
Research Project: Active delivery of insulin using magnetically-active carbon therapeutic agents |
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Mark Chen
Research Project: Elution of liver x receptor and peroxisome proliferation activated receptor agonists via parylene-copolymer composite thin films |
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Sonia Wu
Research Project: Photoactive protein-copolymer complexes for nanomedicine-based vision research |
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Jessica Lee
Research Project: Photo-actuation of protein-copolymer matrices |
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Vishal Kapadia
Research Project: C2C12 murine myoblast culture atop collagen-copolymer composites and gene expression analysis of mechano-sensing pathway regulation |
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Michael Awadalla
Research Project: Ibuprofen-eluting micropatch devices |
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Himanshu Aggarwal
Research Project: Investigation of Outer Membrane Protein F (OmpF) interfacial intercalation between copolymeric amphiphiles |
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Shirley Bochman
Research Project: Purification of synaptotagmin proteins for Botulinum Toxin detection |
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Jenni Boswell
Research Project: Fabrication of poly-l-lysine-copolymer composites for neural-nanomaterial interfacing |
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Shiva Daram
Research Project: Real-time PCR/Western Blot analysis of nanotopographical induction of NFκB activity |
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Karthik Garapati
Research Project: Investigation of Akt phosphorylation following LPS-mediated inflammation from RAW264.7 macrophages cultured atop non-planarized parylene |
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Rebecca Hoo
Research Project: Nuclear Western Blotting of RAW264.7 murine macrophages following drug elution from parylene-copolymer composite thin films |
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Brian Huang
Research Project: Fabrication of copolymer-collagen nanovesicles for cyto-interfacing applications |
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Kunj Sheth
Research Project: Fabrication of collagen/copolymer-functionalized magnetic beads |
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Eric Shin
Research Project: Immunofluorescent analysis of NFκB nuclear localization correlated with material-induced inflammation |
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Liang Xiang
Research Project: Measurement of quantum dot-driven photoelectric activity from Bacteriorhodopsin-copolymer membranes |
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Departments
of Biomedical
and Mechanical Engineering
Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road, D155
Evanston, IL 60208
d-ho@northwestern.edu |