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   Brian Diekman: bdiekman@email.unc.edu

  • Principal Investigator, March 2017 –
  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Joint Department between UNC and NCSU)
  • Member, Thurston Arthritis Research Center
  • Curriculum Member, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
  • Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

   Garrett Sessions: gasessio@email.unc.edu

  • Research technician, March 2017 – July 2021
  • BBSP Graduate Student Fall 2021 –
    • Co-mentored by Jeremy Purvis (Genetics)

   Jacqueline Shine: yalins@med.unc.edu

  • Research Specialist, March 2021 –
   Matthew Rich: matthew_rich@med.unc.edu

  • BME graduate student, August 2017 – May 2023
  • Collaborator, May 2023 –
  Xinyi (Melissa) Li

  • BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, November 2022 –
   Jack Felkner

  • UNC Sports and Exercise Science undergraduate student, October 2020 –
  • UNC Medical Student
   Carson Shepler

  • NCSSM high school student, September 2020 –
  • BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, January 2022 –
   Hannon Brown

  • BME undergraduate student, Abrams Scholar, August 2022 –
   Will Frickhoeffer

  • BME undergraduate student, June 2023 –
   William (Andrew) Cohan

  • Neuroscience undergraduate student, January 2023 –
   Antony Shaju

  • Biology / Chemistry undergraduate student, August 2023 –
   Miguel Martinez Leal

  • BME undergraduate student, January 2024 –

 

Former members

Full time / PhD students

Susan D’Costa: Lab manager (2017-2021)

Michaela Copp: PhD student, Biomedical Engineering (2018-2023)

 

Short-term / Undergraduate students

Oliver Hansen: UNC Medical student, MSTAR scholar, Summer 2023

Rohan Krishnan: BME undergraduate student, Abrams Scholar, January 2021 – May 2023

Helen Tran: BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, January 2021 – May 2023

Kirti Nimmala: BME undergraduate student, Lucas Scholar, August 2021 – May 2023

Tanner Orders: UNC Medical student (Summer 2020)

Alex Roupas: Part-time post-bac (2020)

Taylor Abele: BBSP rotation student (Fall 2019)

Chase Binion: NCSU-based BME undergraduate student, Lucas scholar (2019)

Kayla Darris: University of Arizona medical student, MSTAR (Summer 2019)

Svetlana Griego: UNC-based BME undergraduate student (2019)

Maggie Sinkler: Medical College of Georgia student, MSTAR (Summer 2018)

Xiangxiang (Allen) Hu: BBSP rotation student (Spring 2018).

Karthik Kaundinya: UNC-based BME undergraduate student (2018, 2019)

Maggie Flanders: NCSU undergraduate student: (2017 – 2019)

Noah Pieper: UNC-based BME Undergraduate student (2017 –2018)