People

June: Crystal Coolbaugh earns certification as a Project Management Professional!
January: Jason Ostenson successfully defends his PhD dissertation, “Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting for Rapid Quantitative Imaging of the Liver” and begins a position as Research Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.

June: Congratulations to Andrew Pelham, graduate of Hume Fogg Academic Magnet High School and future undergraduate student at Notre Dame University.
May: Congratulations to Hannah Kilpatrick, BE graduate from the VU Biomedical Engineering Department.

October: Welcome to new lab member Jason Lerner, graduate student in the VU Chemical and Physical Biology Program.
August: Welcome to new lab member Xingyu Zhou, graduate student in the VU Biomedical Engineering Department.
June: Best of luck to lab alumni Jose Paz Amaya and Braden Yang as they move on to graduate school at Temple University and the NIH Post-baccalaureate Program, respectively.
May: The Vanderbilt Initiative of Bio-funky Engineers hits the airwaves on Radio Free Nashville!
May: Welcome to new lab member Melissa Hooijmans, PhD!
April: Welcome to new lab member Hannah Kilpatrick, undergraduate student in the VU Biomedical Engineering Department.
January: Welcome to new lab member Andrew Pelham of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt.

October: Congratulations to Crystal Coolbaugh on her promotion to Senior Staff Scientist!
July: Hellos and goodbyes as we welcome Biomedical Engineer Mark George and undergraduate students Jose Paz, Elliot Grant, and Braden Yang to the lab, but bid farewell to Research Coordinator Katie Lants
February: Bruce Damon inducted as a Fellow of the AAAS
January: Undergraduate student Elyssa Edgeton joins the lab