Our Team

Principal Investigator: Levi Wood

Dr. Wood completed his graduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there he worked under the guidance of Drs. H. Harry Asada and Roger Kamm to develop and use microfluidics to identify mechanisms governing vascular geometry. 
   During his postdoc, Dr. Wood worked under Dr. Kevin Haigis (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to use systems biology to identify novel signaling mechanisms driving neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease and epithelial cell death during intestinal inflammation.
 
Contact: levi dot wood at me dot gatech dot edu

Graduate Students

Laura Weinstock

Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, summa cum laude, Northeastern University 
Research Topic: Prediction and control of the dynamic microglial response to injury
Awards: CTEng Trainee 
Contact: lweinstock3 at gatech dot edu

Alyssa Pybus

Education: B.S. in Bioengineering, MIT

Research Topic: Identifying mechanisms driving neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in repetititive traumatic brain injury

Contact: afpybus at gatech dot edu

Undergraduates

Benjamin Ahn

Education: Biology, Class of 2022
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Research Topic: Modulating neuroimmune cell activity in Alzheimer's disease

Rachel Grosswald

Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2022

Jay McKinney

Primary Advisor: Nick Willet

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Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S. in Medical Sciences, Boston University

Research Topic: Analysis of the therapeutic efficacy of human Mesenchymal Stem Cell paracrine signaling mechanisms in osteoarthritis

Contact: jmckinney at gatech dot edu

Sara Bitarafan

Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Research Topic: Quantifying changes in microglial activation in neuroinflammatory diseases