Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Designing novel preclinical drug screening platforms using protein-engineered materials
Event: 2012 Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting
Dr. Raya Saab is a Professor at the Department Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplant at Stanford. She is currently section chief of Pediatric Oncology, and her clinical expertise is in pediatric sarcoma and retinoblastoma. Dr. Saab's laboratory research aims to understand oncogenic pathways involved in tumor progression and invasion to identify novel therapeutic targets, focusing on the pediatric soft tissue tumor rhabdomyosarcoma.
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Charles Taylor
Talk Title: Verification of a finite element method for solving one-dimensional equations of blood flow incorporating a viscoelastic wall model
Event: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference
