BI 108 Web Page Projects
 

 

The Web pages linked below were prepared as part of the class projects in the course on Organ Replacement (BI 108) which is offered by the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University. We hope you find them interesting and informative. Please bear in mind that these documents represent literature surveys prepared by students and should not be considered as either medical advice or definitive position papers.


Course Instructor:

Michael Lysaght, Ph.D. (
Lysaght@brown.edu)
 

 


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Projects By Year:

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

 

Spring 2008 semester:

1. Kyphoplasty

Daniel Miranda, Michael Rainbow, Kenneth Morabito, Whitney Sharp, Lee Cronin-Fine

2. Sex Change/Transition Surgeries

Jennifer Nykiel, Adam Kroll, Kenneth Estrellas, Loren Francis, Benedict Landren-Mills, Chantel Taylor

3. Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)

Emily Ebert, Richard Alexander, Nathanael Geman, Jennifer Park, Vira Ameli

4. Automated Peritoneal Dialysis

Kriya Gishen, Christopher Baker, David Eichhorn, Hans Dietrich, Robin Zelman

5.Recent Developments in Stem Cells

Youssef Garcia- Bengochea, Kangyi Zhang, Zachary Zdrada, Paul Strombom, Riaz Gillani, Daniel Ludwig, Phin Peng Lee

6.Plasmapheresis

Jovan Julien, Michael, Li, Justina Gamache

7.  Deep brain Stimulation

             Nupur Shridhar, Catherine Berger, Erica Alexander, Sarah Swanson, Andrew Loftus

8. Spine Arthroplasty

              Lisa Ratanaprasatporn, Linda Ratanaprasatporn, Vanessa Merker, Jordan Sack, Jennifer Hsu, Joshua Lai

9. Cardiovascular Replacement Therapy in Children

             Dipal Shah, Aditi Dubey, Robert Kim, Hezhi Gan, Anthony Roggio

10. How Health Technology changes the bioethics of Life and Death

             Deb Mahato, Michael Hnojewyj, Elizabeth Boghossian, Hannah Garrett, Tien Nguyen, Sarah Huebscher

11. Wireless Capsule Endoscopy

            Christina Johnson, Elizabeth Leary, Olivia Winfrey, Carmichael Ong, Alexandra Saavedra

12. Human Factors in Device implantation variability

          Katie Montgomery, Nick Anastasio, Sean Wengerter, Adriana Urreula, William Jackson, Hans Mayer

13. Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

          Tai Ho Shin, Andrew Hwang, Sue Hahn, Anne Friedland, Van Anh Nguyen

14. Spine Scoliosis

          Clayton Alonso, Jamie Terran, Alexander Pleet, Matthew Tann

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Spring 2007 semester:

1. Obesity: Medical and Socioeconomic Consequences

           Daniela Buchman, Sophia Berger, Jaickie Parente, Melvin Parker, and Yu-Ting Liu

2. Deep Brain Stimulation and Depression

            Chen Gu, Andrea Lopez, Briannan Bintz, and Annamarie Atiba

3. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

            Whitney Keefe, Daniel Weisberg, Gillian Marino, Emily Silverman, Oksana Babchenko, and Nicole Fuerst

4. Overcoming the Immune Barrier in Stem Cell Therapies

            Simon Buttrick, Ben Friedman, Zachary Harnett, Raiki Machida, Adam Vasconcellos, and Brett Weinstock

5. Major Recalls of Organ Replacement Devices

             Cynthia Bui, Joseph Carpenter, Gregory Herbert, Jennifer Pallay, and Eric Stahl

6. Rise and Fall of Xenotransplantation

             Sean Curran, Norris Hung, Albert Lin, Billy Moua, Vernissia Tam, and Jodie Cheng

7.  Clinical Trials of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Products

             Michael Kim, Jensen Law, Michael Lee, and Shou Yi Poon

8. Cell Therapy Approaches to the Treatment of Diabetes

              Julia Pleet, Aartik Sarma, Christine Livoti, Susannah Gilbert, Stephanie Angione, and Alison Edmonstone

9. The Current and Future of Blood Substitutes

             Tim Nolan, Rachel Griffith, Ben Groisser, Rachel Lipman, and William Ranz

10. Tissue Engineered Partial Bladders

             Brandon Dolly, Greg Halenda, Adam Emrich, Tito Jankowski, and Sarah Groothuis

11. Skin Grafts and Transplants

            Evan Smith, Alisha Ranadive, Giselle Torres, and Alex Hogg

12. Biomaterials Based Tissue Engineering

          Akin Oyalowo, Cameron Rementer, Maura Soucy, Melinda Mayorga, and Lucy Weng

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Spring 2006 semester:

1.       Drug Device Combinations - Heparin coated oxygenators

                    Megan Bowers, Jill Javier, Di Jiang, David Yeh, Jason Yu

2.       Cochlear Implants

                   Karthic Chivukula, Bryan Laulicht, Dorothy Marcello, Roshni Patel, Robert Saphirstein

3.        Glaucoma Treatment

                    Katie Burt, Michael Santos, Laura Jeanbart, Louis Tee, Sarah Freeman

4.        Artificial Retinas

                    Carly Devlin, Karin Sanders, Brian Lee, Paula Miller, Ross Beckman

5.        Organ Replacement in Countries with Emerging Economies

                    Alex Hinckfuss, Angela Sherwin, Caroline Hu, Ipek Kirac, Maria Murray

6.         Organ Replacement in Animals
                    Julie Richardson, Pamela Krajewski, Grace Peloquin

7.       High Tech Prosthetics

                    Michael Klufas, Aaron Paul, Hans Van Lancker, Samuel Stolper, Robert Greenglass

8.         Cartilage replacement

                    Catherine Auriemma, Benhamin Frank, Aleksey Novikov, Adam Rago, Alyssa Ricker

9.         Artificial Blood

                    Aditi Gupta, Luke Samson, Alan Man, David Cangemi, F. Brendan Burke III

10.         Heart Molds / Plastic surgery of the heart
                   
                   Deanna Chaukos, Matthew Finn, Blair Hickman, Joelle Karlik

11.         Corneal Implants
                   
                   Casey Dougan, Greg Hill, Josh Hill, Nicole Villaverde

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Spring 2005 semester:

 

1.        Deep brain stimulation for OCD

                    Drew Cronin-Fine, James Elsworth, Kristen Kelly, Elaine Kim, Benjamin Ladd, Sarah Rose

2.       The gender gap in cardiovascular disease

                   Albert Lin, Sunny Rhee, Jane Suh, Zoe Tseng, Eileen Wang

3.        Brain-Chip Technologies

                    Suvadip Bose, Courtney Devin, Joshua Goldner, Lillian Guenther, Jonathan Lester

4.        Robotic surgery

                    Yu Au, Sylvia Cho, Bamboo Dong, Suraj Gorkhali, Sarah Lee, Joseph Leung

5.        Atherectomy devices

                    Hira Chaudhry, Geoffrey D'Cruz, Azeem Kaka, John Lentini, Jason Lohmueller

6.         Xenotransplantation

                    Bella Avanesyan, Armando Bedoya, Robert Dobbie, Amanda Jacobson, Thomas Langan

7.        California's Proposition 71   

                    Neema Guliani, Scott Karpowicz, Dominique Malacarne, Nicole Pereira

8.        Tissue engineered skin

                    Elizabeth Deweerd, Louis Golden, Brian Holt, Grace Li, Matthew Staum

9.         Percutaneous heart valve replacement therapy

                    Akram Bakkour, David Bick, Alicia Carranza, Julia Keith, Christopher Mun

10.         Synthetic blood
                   
                   Gabriel Lepine, Garland McQuinn, Ruth Ophardt, Evan Werlin

 

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Spring 2004 semester:

 

1.        Orthopedic Implants for Competitive Athletes

                    Stephanie Chang, Connie Lee, Blair Smith, Daniel Solomon, Matthew Whitson

2.        Emerging Heart Surgery Techniques

                    Benjamin Galeota-Sprung, Elisa Juarez, Marti Kamlet, Ana Mascarenas, Alissa Rothchild,  Joshua Ziperstein

3.        Off Pump CABG

                    Akosua Atta-Mensah, Mario Desouza, Lindsey Fujita, Darren Walker

4.        Tolerance in Organ Transplantation

                    Vivian Fong, Jillian Harrison, Emily Israeli, Sarah Mitchell, Ashley Schomer

5.        Drug Eluting Stents

                    Paul Frake,  Mia Kazanjian, Nicholas Mark, Lawrence Yu

6.         Knee Injuries and Therapies in Competitive Athletes

                    Patrick Curran, Ryan Kum, Leslie Tanyu, Tynan Wyatt

7.         Ilizarov Procedure   

                    Jane Casey, Ariel Cohen, Beth Goldstein, Yael Horovitz, Nicholas Taylor

8.         Cell Transplantation for the Failing Heart

                    Meredith Crocker, Michael Hodor, Anthony Napolitano, Joshua Reineke, Michael Thompson

9.         Edmonton Protocol

                    Joshua Gootzeit, Rochelle Hartley, Eileen Pappas, Abraham Young, Shuyi Zhang

10.         Artificial Cells
                   
                    Charles Ferrell, Carol Hang, Chelsea Loughran, Dayna Moore

 

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Spring 2003 semester:

 

1.        Unicompartmental Knee Replacements

         Portia Thurmond, Kelvin Chan, Melissa Zerofsky, Elyssa Monzack, Eric Steen, Christopher Song

2.       Artificial Vision

        Wayne Chung, Lauren Cheung, Mike Panas, Virginia Hughes, Franklin Adatsi

3.       Prosthetics for Competitive Athletes

        Bretta Zarda, James Paiva, Sharon Sonenblum

4.       Emerging Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

        Kristin McLaughlin, Gloria Olivier, Jan Bruder, Annie Hazlehurst, Kimberly Hyde

5.       Transdermal Drug Delivery

                 Ana Jaklenec, Alex Derevianko, James Fletcher, Rishi Sanyal, Stephen Chen

6.      Hand Prosthetics

                 Maria Garcia, Linda Gonzalez, Michael Kim, Marlowe Kulley, Yoori Oh, Davia Ruan

7.      Coronary Angiogenesis

        Celinda Gourd, Kristin Loening, Bronwyn Uber, Simon Weiss, Jeffery Wooton

8.       Deep Brain Stimulation

        Adeeb Rahman, Peter Hopkins, Alice Kelman, Najma Amin, Albert Ahn, Paul Yang

9.       Hand Transplantation: Getting a Grip on Non-Vital Organ Replacement

        Margaret Tsien, Kyle Wood, Sharon Warren, Maria Kasparian, Brian Pham, James Dorroh

10.       Organ Replacement and the Future of Xenotransplantation

        Elliot Robinson, Peter Morello, Robert Cole, Jonathan Halperin

11.       Type 1 Diabetes and the Insulin Pump

                 Alison Thomas, Michele Fujimoto, Julie Wolfson, Simon Fishel, Charles Goldenberg, Olivier Roln

12.     Phrenic Nerve Pacin

                  Maya Hartman, Evan Levanthal, Laura Englander


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Spring 2002 semester:

 

1.       Artificial Intervertebral Discs

           Hashim Mehter, Priya Sateesha, Jahi Gist, Susana Candia, Roxanne Wadia

2.       The Bioartificial Liver

           Hashim Mehter, Priya Sateesha, Jahi Gist, Susana Candia, Roxanne Wadia

3.       Neuromotor Prosthetics

           Laura Brown, Emily Davies, James Higham-Kessler, Benjamin Heasley, Muntasir Hoque

4.       Stem Cells and Diabetes

          David Keyzer, Nicholas Marcantonio, Lesley Rabach, Morgan Rabach, Shannon Watkins

5.       Aortic Aneurysm Stents

                  James Wey, Christopher Chan, Elizabeth Quadros, Ziad Sergie, Jason Sousa, Lilian Hong

6.       Tissue Engineered Heart Valves

                  Emily Bubbers, Stacia Furtado, Ian Kaplan, Meera Shah, Evan Scott, Kevin Turner

 

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Spring 2001 semester:

 

1.       Therapeutic Cloning:

                  Steve Bernstein, Molly Miller, Brian Nicholas, Annemarie Van Parys

2.       Cochlear Implants

                  Aine Clements, Drew Freilich, Silvia Hartmann, Felicia Kuo, Nils Reuter

3.       Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

                  Jim Giddings, Josh Mondschein, Taylor Monica, Vijay Muraliraj

4.       Wearable, Implantable, and Tissue Engineered Artificial Kidneys

                  Lola Brown, Michael Harrison, Judy Nee, Joon Paek, Elizabeth Won

5.       Nerve Regeneration

                  Hamid Lari, Brian Hashim, Haitao Qian, Justin A. Chua, John Haas

 

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Spring 2000 semester:

 

1.       Recent Developments in Prosthetic Hands:

                  Kate Saul, Marilyn Nourse, Tom Kenny, Chris Elitt, Samir Gupta

2.       The Issue of Financial Incentives for Organ Donation

                  Justin Meng, Mitzi Sales, Alice Su

3.       Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery

                  Cass Sapir, Shayan Shirazian, Daniel Wobbekind, Anup Mehta

4.       Stem Cells Research

                  Suzanne Sachsman,Keren Tuvia, Sarah Courtright, Ken Perry, Kate Murphy

5.       Blood Substitutes

                  Myra Wong, Shazia Rahman, Noa Kay, Irene Chang

6.       The Silicone Breast Implant Controversy

                  Khambay Khamsyvoravong, Guillermo Portillo, Richard Weistroffer, Danielle Regis

 

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Spring 1999 semester:

 

1.       Therapeutic Angiogenesis:

                  Omar Ahmed, Jamie Lipman, Ammar Shaikhouni

2.       Future Trends in Cardiac Pacing

                  Nicole Ali, Sean Brusky, Dave Fossett, Jordan Schecter

3.       Cardiac Xenotransplantation

                  Amy Dybas, Giao Le, Amanda Rhee, Jennifer Scherer, Claudia Wheeler

4.       Autologous Cultured Condrocytes

                  Chris Furbish, Matthew Giles, Jason Iannuccilli, Christine Marrese Jill O'Loughlin

5.       Digital implants

                  Amer Khayyat, Sandi Pike, Walter Stearns: Biology, Class of 2000Lisa Sunwoo, Katie Torres, Class of 1999

6.       Heart in a box

                  Erin Middendorp, Dan Stein, Ian Wickman

7.       Left Ventricular Assist Devices

                  Peter Cheifetz, Alexandra Goodyear, Adam Kawalek, Caitlin Madera, Jason Rantanen

8.       Liver Support Systems

                  Erin Bradley , Erika Olson, Kedar Mate

9,       Implantable electrodes for the treatment of Parkinsons disease

                  Anand Balakrishnan, Cathy Okada, Elisa Banner, Dan Minkoff, Lisa Koulish

10.      Neuroxenotransplantation

                  Larry Hou, Irene Klein , Billy Lau, Vanessa Rothholtz, Yvette Wild

11.      Stents

                        Jennifer Godbee, Dannielle Gorlitsky, Nuashen Rahman, Maryellen Sandor, Chris Thanos

12.        Wear Debris on hip replacements: generation, response, mediation

                  Philomena Salvemini, Gordon Nangmenyi, Edwin Edwards, Sheree Watson

13.      Artificial Vision

                  Carrie Caulkin, Nicole Lockhart, Mithun Nallari, Chris Thide, Jacob Vogelstein

 

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