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Principal Investigator

Sameer Shah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Graduate Program
Biological Sciences (BISI) Graduate Program (Physiology Concentration)
University of Maryland, College Park

Address:
3236 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Bldg.
College Park, MD 20742

E-mail:
Office: (301) 405-9958
Fax: (301) 314-6868
URL: http://www.bioe.umd.edu/facstaff/profiles/shah.html

Sameer Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Sameer completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in Bioengineering in 2002 under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Lieber, for his research on biomechanical roles of skeletal muscle intermediate filaments. Sameer stayed on at UCSD for his post-doctoral training with Dr. Larry Goldstein, in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, researching mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and modeling axonal transport.

Postdocs and Graduate Students:

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Joshua Chetta

B.A. Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, 2006
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, University of Maryland
E-mail: jchetta at umd dot edu

Gunja Dave

B.S. Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 2009
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, University of Maryland
E-mail: jmlove at umd dot edu

James (Matt) Love

B.S. Bioengineering, University of Maryland, 2009
Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, University of Maryland
E-mail: gdave at umd dot edu

Tom Chuang

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Clemson University, 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering, University of Maryland
E-mail: XXX at umd dot edu

Undergraduate and High School Students:

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Olatunji (Tunji) Godo (Materials Science, 2011)
Bao Nguyen (Bioengineering, 2011)
Tapan Patel (Eleanor Roosevelt High School, 2011)
Kelliann Wachrathit (Bioengineering, 2011)
Walter Beller-Morales (Bioengineering, 2012)
Hassan Moustafa (Bioengineering, 2012)
Mariya Sitnova (Bioengineering, 2012)
Victoria Stefanelli (Bioengineering, 2012)
Jimmie Wu (Bioengineering, 2012)
Vijay Baharani (Bioengineering, 2013)
Miranda Hagen (Bioengineering, 2013)
Sina Shahamatdar (Physiology and Neurobiology, 2014)

Alumni:

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Postdocs and Graduate Students:
Joseph Bender (M.S., Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, 2010)
Franklin R. Bueno (Biochemistry, UMCP)
Sebila Kratovac (NACS, UMCP)
Christina Kyrtsos (Bioengineering, UMCP)
Kouroush Sadegh-Zadeh (Postdoctoral Scientist, Bioengineering, UMCP)

Undergraduates and High School Students:
Shaza Abnouf (B.S., 2010, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Brett Antlfinger-Norton (B.S., 2009, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Gunja Dave (B.S., 2009, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Himali Fernando (B.S., 2009, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Andrew Iwamaye (B.S., 2008, Bioresources Engineering, UMCP)
Ajay Kannan (2010, Blair High School)
Cecilia Kye (B.S., 2007, Mechanical Engineering, UMCP)
Jennifer Lei (B.S., 2010, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Nii Mante (B.S., 2010, Bioengineering, UMCP)
Alexander Orkin (B.S., 2008, Bioresources Engineering, UMCP)
Sophia Rizvi (Neurophysiology, UMCP)

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Program:
Gage Matthews (St. Olaf College)
Katherine Speichinger (University of Missouri)
Robin Wilson (Case Western Reserve University)

DAIEngineering, 11 January 2011