Principal Investigator
J. Brandon Dixon
Professor Degrees: B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2001 Email: dixon@gatech.edu
Dr. Brandon Dixon is an Associate Professor and a Woodruff Faculty Fellow in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where since joining the faculty in 2009 he has established a research program focused on developing engineered approaches to understanding and treating diseases of the lymphatic system. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was a post-doc at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland doing research on lymphatic biology of lipid transport. Brandon received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 2006 from Texas A&M University and received his bachelor’s degree from the same university in 2001. His research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, Gates Foundation, Department of Defense, the Georgia Research Alliance, the American Heart Association, and various private foundations. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award and the NIH Pathway to Independence Award. He is also a co-founder of LymphaTech, a start-up launched from Georgia Tech focused on the development of diagnostic technologies for lymphedema |
Current Lab Members
Research Faculty
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Zhanna Nepiyushchikh (2014 – present)Degrees: M.D., State Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 1996 |
Post-docs
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Eleftheria (Ria) Michalaki (2019 – present)Degrees: Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Stanford, 2019
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford, 2016 B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, 2014 Hometown: Iraklion, Greece
Research Area: osteoarthritis, lymphangiogenesis
Past Research: microfluidics, effect of fluid flow on LECs, calcium dynamics Email: emichalaki3@gatech.edu
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Graduate Students
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Lauren Liebman (2018 – present)Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering Research Area: osteoarthritis and biomaterials Email: lliebman3@gatech.edu |
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Likhit Nayak (2018 – present)Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering (Mechanical Engineering) Research Area: Machine learning, point-cloud anthropomorphic data analysis, lymphedema diagnostics Email: lnayak3@gatech.edu |
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Yarelis Gonzalez-Vargas (2019 – present)Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Engineering Research Area: lymphangiogenesis, hydrogels, tissue engineering Email: ygonzale3@gatech.edu |
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Young Jae Ryu (2020 – present)Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering (Mechanical Engineering) Research Area: Lymphatic biomechanics, computational modeling Email: yryu36@gatech.edu |
MS Students
Yanina Kuzminich (2018 – 2020), M.S. in Bioengineering, Current Position: Ph.D. in Bioengineering advised by Dr. James Dahlman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ryan Akin (2012-2013), M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Current Position: Consultant, Accenture