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Feature Articles
January 2008 |
Investigating the Hemodynamics of Commercial Coronary Stents
.png) Investigating the Hemodynamics of Commercial Coronary Stents Using a powerful laboratory-based measurement technique called Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV), a team of SBES graduate students headed by Dr. Pavlos Vlachos have been investigating how the blood flow in simulated coronary arteries changes after stent implantation based on the choice of design. Coronary stents are small wireframe mesh metallic implants that are expanded into the arteries supplying blood to the heart to reopen blocked regions. They are used to treat coronary artery disease, one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Click here to read more. |
December 2008 |
Samir Shah: One of the first graduates of the combined VT and Wake Forest SBES program in 2006
 After he joined the program, when asked what he would do with his degree, he said, “not pharmaceuticals – too much biology, I’m an engineer.” He reluctantly took a molecular cell biology class so he wouldn’t be intimidated if he ever faced it in the future, while diving into the number crunching classes fitting to an engineering student.
Today, Samir is a scientist for a large pharmaceutical company in New Jersey where he works on new respiratory dosage forms. Click here to read more...
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