Christine Khademi - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, Professor of Bioengineering, Materials Sci & Engineering, and of Radiology
Awarded in 2009
Home Department: Neurosciences
Faculty Advisors: Scott Delp (Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering) and Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering, Psychiatry)
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Comparative study of primary glioblastoma (GBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) cells from adult and pediatric brain cancer patients cultured in 3D PEG-based biomimetic hydrogel
Event: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 2014
Awarded in 2014
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Fan Yang (Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery), Gerald Grant (Neurosurgery), and Michelle Monje (Neurology)
Dr. Christoph A. Thaiss is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University. His lab studies how interactions between environment, body, and brain impact physiology and disease over the lifespan. Christoph received his undergraduate training from the University of Bonn, Yale University, ETH Zurich, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Following his Ph.D. studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.