Graduate Students
Hugo Liberos Jimenez Visiting Research Scholar
Undergraduate Students
Bernardo Esquer
Nizhone Hickman
Veronica Contreras Sotelo
Faculty
Staff
ALUMNI
Postdoctoral
| Cecilia Hernadez B | 2022-2023 | Neuromodulation of pelvic floor | Postdoc UNAM |
| Alejandra Gonzalez | 2016-2022 | Softening and Graphene Electrodes | Postdoc Baylor |
| Bryan Black | 2014-2015 | Neuroma Pain Model | Principal Investigator |
| Rafael Granja | 2012-2014 | Long Gap Nerve Repair | Senior Res. Cleveland Clinic |
| Jennifer Seifert | 2008-2011 | Spinal Cord Injury: Distraction | Director R&D. TissueGen |
| Fang Yang | 2005-2008 | Cloning and expression of ECM | Senior Researcher. Biopharma |
| Edward Keefer | 2006-2008 | Regenerative Neurointerfaces | PI. Nerves Inc |
Doctoral
| David Lloyd | 2019-2024 | Modeling of Splenic Nerves | Postdoc/U. Houston |
| Xingjian Gu | 2020-2024 | Peripheral Nerve Regeneration | Postdoc/U. Houston |
| Farial Rahman | 2019-2024 | Materials for urethral support in SUI | Eng. Juniper Biomedical |
| Ana Hernandez R | 2020-2023 | Neuromodulation of Pelvic Nerve Muscles | Assistant Professor CWU |
| Geetanjali Bendale | 2019-2022 | Long-gap Nerve Regeneration | Research Scientist, UVA |
| Eileen Shimizu | 2019-2021 | Neuroprotection of Distraction SCI | Associate DAVA Oncology |
| Sanjay Anand | 2014-2018 | Molecular Guidance Neurointerfacing | Med. liaison Vanda Pharm. |
| Aswini Kanneganti | Sep 2016 | Fascicular neurointerfacing | Postdoc/UT Dallas |
| Vidhi Desai | Aug 2014 | Cell specific guidance of nerve regeneration | Systems Eng. Abbott. |
| Nesreen Alsmadi | Aug 2014 | Growth factor enhancement of nerve | Research Scientist/UTD |
| Benjamin Johnston | May 2014 | Peripheral nerve injuries: Pleotrophin mediated | Neurosurgeon. Harvard |
| Jennifer Bell | Aug 2012 | Characterization of a novel animal model | Postdoc UTD |
| Collins Watson | Dec 2012 | Investigations into causes of failure of | Medical Student/UTSW |
| Swarup N. Dash | Aug 2012 | Pleoitrophin enhance nerve regeneration | Entrepreneur/Investor |
| Parisa Lotfi | Dec 2011 | Cell specific guidance of nerve regeneration | Professor. Alaska |
Master’s
| Mason Garcia | May 2022 | Neuromodulation for hypertension | PhD student |
| Andrew J. Wells | Aug. 2018 | PNS Regeneration comp. collagen | UH Doctoral student |
| Rajeswari Kumaraju | Dec. 2016 | DRG multielectrode array recording | Research Assistant |
| Geetanjali Bendale | Apr. 2014 | Nerve blood barrier formation | Doctoral student |
| Camilo Sanchez | Dec. 2012 | Characterization of immune response | Doctoral student |
| Nilanjana Dutta | Dec. 2012 | Regenerative Peripheral | Sr. Researcher |
| Sara Bhetawal | Dec. 2012 | Evaluation of tissue response | Research Assistant |
| Princy Prasad | Dec. 2012 | Ankle angle in rabbits. | Research Assistant |
| Eduardo Martinez | Apr. 2011 | 3D multimedium modeling | St. Jude Medical |
| An H. Nguyen | Dec. 2010 | Pleiotrophins in nerve repair. | Pfizer |
| Bradley B. Elmer | Dec. 2010 | Spine distraction device | Researcher/ Pharma |
| Abdul F Dawood | Dec. 2009 | VEGF in multichannels | Researcher/MPCP |
| Kshitija Garde | Aug. 2008 | REMI in Sciatic Nerve | Researcher/ Medtronic |
| Ebrahim Bengali | Dec. 2006 | In Vitro axonal segregation |
Master’s (No Thesis)
| Paola Castro | 2023-2025 | |
| David Lloyd | 2018-2020 | PhD student at Univ. Houston |
| Sarah Tindle | 2015-2018 | Quality Assurance Coordinator at CoorsTek Medical |
| Ashlesha Deshmuk | 2015-2017 | R&D Engineer, Triangle Biosystems |
| Achintyan Gangadharan | 2014-2016 | RA. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Sarita Bethawal | 2010-2012 | Research Assistant MD Anderson, Smithville, TX |
| Rozita Shafabakhsh | 2009-2011 | R&D Engineer. Quest Medical Inc |
| Jeff Compton | 2010-2012 | Medical Student. UT. Southwestern Medical Ctr. |
| Tabassum Polara | 2009-2010 | Research Associate Plexon, TX. |
| Rodrigo Lozano | 2007-2009 | PhD Student at University of Wollongong, Australia. |
| Gowrishanka Raman | 2006-2007 | R&D Engineer, Medtronic CA. |
| Amit Chouhan | 2006-2007 | Research Associate, UT San Antonio, TX. |
Undergraduates
| Hoang Tran | 2021-2022 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Nusayba T El-Ali | 2021-2022 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Kenneth Nguyen | 2021-2022 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Laura Rubio | 2021-2022 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Sarah M Sharf-Aldin | 2020-2021 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Katherine Pham | 2020-2021 | Biomedical Engineering |
| Sakshi Kulkarni | 2018- 2019 | Biomedical Engineering/ Research Associate |
| Farial S. Rahman | 2018- 2019 | Neuroscience |
| Jeffrey Miyata | 2017- 2019 | Biology/ Research Associate |
| Livia George | 2017- 2019 | Neuroscience |
| Brandon T Tran | 2017- 2019 | Biology: PhD student Baylor School of Medicine |
| Danny Lam | 2017- 2019 | Biomedical Engineering./ PhD student, Case Western University |
| Kevin Romero | 2016-2018 | Neuroscience |
| Nicole Svan | 2017 | Biology |
| Shrinevas Nandam | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience, Green Fellow |
| Canice Dancel | 2016-2017 | Health Care Studies |
| Farhan Sanuouri | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience |
| Michael Tran | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience |
| Aron Kuo | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience |
| Elaine Ramirez | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience |
| Tricia Interino | 2016-2017 | Neuroscience |
| Kevin Johnson | 2016-2017 | Biology. Honors Thesis Project |
| Miguel Zavaleta | 2014-2015 | Neuroma project |
| Martin Q. Tran. | 2012-2014 | Honors Thesis Project. Green Fellow |
| Dianna Nguyen | 2012-2014 | Honors Thesis Project. –Medical Student. UNT Health Sciences |
| Elijah Hor | 2012-2014 | |
| Gaurav Synghal | 2012-2014 | |
| Tarik Shihabeddin | 2009-2012 | Medical Student. UTSW Dallas TX |
| Priscilla Martinez | 2011-2012 |