Graduate Students
Lin Wang
Graduate Student
Project: Tissue Engineering of Intestine
Lin is working to develop an accurate drug absorption model using monolayers of intestinal epithelial cells. Her work has focused to date on studying intestinal epithelial cell attachment and growth on chemically and topographically modified substrates.
M.S. Chemical Engineering
Xiamen University,
Xiamen, Fujian P.R. China, 2004
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Xiamen University,
Xiamen, Fujian P.R. China, 2001
wang.li@neu.edu
D. Ece Gamsiz
Graduate Student
Project: Computational Modeling of Intestinal Drug Delivery Environment
Ece is working on development of mathematical models that predict the effect of drug delivery technologies (cyclodextrins, lipid-based systems) on oral absorption of insoluble drugs.
M.S. Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Sabanci University
Istanbul, Turkey 2003
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey 2001
egamsiz@coe.neu.edu
Fulden Buyukozturk
Graduate Student
Project: Influence of Micro - and Nano - emulsion Based Drug Delivery Systems on Digestion Kinetics and Mucosal Permeability.
Fulden is working to develop models for formulation of emulsion based drug delivery systems. She is investigating key mechanistic aspects (digestion kinetics, mucosal permeability) of emulsion based drug delivery systems for the oral delivery of water insoluble drugs.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul, Turkey 2006
fulden@coe.neu.edu
Courtney Pfluger
Graduate Student
Project: Nano - and Micro - Scale Replication of Intestinal Basement Membrane using Chemical Vapor Deposition
Courtney is working on replicating the surface topology of the intestinal basement membrane using Chemical Vapor Deposition to create a mold of the surface. Intestinal cells will be cultured on the mold, and the influence of the topology on cell phenotype will be studied.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 2005
Courtney.pfluger@gmail.com
Brian J McMahon
Graduate Student
Project: Tissue Engineering of Intestine
Brian is working to fabricate materials with the nano-and micro-topography of the intestinal epithelial layer using Chemical Vapor Deposition.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 2007
bmcmahon@coe.neu.edu
Selena Di Maio
Graduate Student
Project: Effects of Lipids on Dissolution and Absorption of Poorly Water-soluble Drugs
Selena is studying the effects of lipids in the GI tract on dissolution and absorption of poorly water-soluble drugs. Her ultimate goal is to develop a model to predict the food effect on compound absorption after oral delivery.
BS. and MS. in Chemistry
University of Bologna,
Bologna,
Italy, 2007
* Research assistant fellowship 2007-2008 in the the NanoBioScience and NanoBioTecnology lab at the University of Bologna
Sean Kevlahan
Graduate Student
Project: Intestinal Progenitor Cell Isolation
Sean will be developing a method of isolating intestinal progenitor cells from a heterogenious cellular mixture with the use of microfluidic devices, negative selection, and co-culturing techniques.
B.S. Biochemistry
Hosftra University
Hempstead, NY 2009
Hasan Yildiz
Graduate Student
Project: Barrier Properties of Mucus
The issue of my project focuses on understanding the mucus barrier, its transport characterization and advances with drug delivery systems designed to overcome it.
B.S. Chemical Engineering
EGE University
Izmir, Turkey 2007