People
Principal Investigator
 | Hossein Tavana, Ph.D., P.Eng. |
Graduate Students
 | Sunil Singh PhD student Email: ss502@zips.uakron.edu Sunil received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from India. He joined the lab in September 2016. Sunil’s project involves developing immunocompetent tumor models. |
 | Astha Lamichhane PhD student Email: al229@zips.uakron.edu Astha received her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Nepal. She joined the lab in September 2018. Astha’s project is to study on cancer stem cells in engineered tumor models. |
 | Jacob Heiss PhD student Email: jsh98@zips.uakron.edu Jacob received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from University of Akron. He joined the lab in September 2019. Jacob’s project is to develop 3D human triple negative breast cancer models and study tumor-stomal signaling as a therapeutic target. |
 | Santino Palma PhD student Email: sdp37@zips.uakron.edu Santino received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from University of Akron. He joined the lab in September 2019. Santino’s project is to develop a 3D model of hormone receptor positive breast cancer for drug testing and resistance studies. |
 | Pouria Rafsanjani Nejad PhD student Email: pr86@zips.uakron.edu Pouria received his BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University in Iran. He joined the lab in September 2019. Pouria’s project is to develop organic models to study toxicities of cancer therapeutics in normal tissues. |
Undergraduate Students
| Megha Gupta | Madison Plaster | Sydnie Tran | Justin Putman |
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Alumni
| Ehsan Atefi PhD, 2015 | David Petrak MASc, 2013 | Golnaz Jalalahmadi MASc, 2013 |
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| Stephanie L. Ham PhD, 2017 | Antonio Copploe MS, 2017 | Ramila Joshi PhD, 2018 |
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| Pradip Shahi Thakuri PhD, 2019 | ||
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