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Professor McGrath holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State and a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He earned a PhD in Biological Engineering from Harvard/MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He then trained as a Distinguished Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. Professor McGrath has been on the Biomedical Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester since 2001 where he also served as the director of the graduate program in BME for more than a decade and currently serves as Associate Director of the URNano microfab and metrology core. Professor McGrath also has faculty affiliations with many other programs at UR including the Material Research Program, the Environmental Health and Sciences Center, the Biochemistry and Biophysics program, and the Musculoskeletal Research Center. McGrath's graduate, post-doctoral, and early faculty research was focused on quantitative experiments and mathematical modeling of cell migration covering molecular, cellular, and multi-cellular phenomena. This was true until 2007 when he, along with Professor Philippe Fauchet (now Dean at Vanderbilt) and PhD students Tom Gaborski (RIT) and Chris Streimer (Adarza), discovered a means to self-assembled nanopores in 15 nm thick free-standing silicon and demonstrated the remarkable transport properties of the new material in a Nature paper. This seminal discovery led to the creation of the multidisciplinary Nanomembrane Research Group (NRG) and the founding of SiMPore Inc. in the same year. The NRG and SiMPore have been dedicated to the advancement of ultrathin membrane technologies and exploring all of their potential applications ever since.
This blog also dates back to 2007 and has had contributions from more than 100 students, faculty, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. It contains over 2,500 pages and posts logging progress large and small over all these years. Yet somehow it feels like we are just getting started.
NRG Web Dev. Update #1
The NRG website downtime you’ve suffered in recent weeks is paying dividends. Most of this has been in operation for a while, but in case you haven’t noticed here is the first round of changes we’ve rolled out … Sharing…
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No individual meetings today …
… Jim is out of town. Jim James L. McGrath, PhD Associate Professor Director of the Graduate Program Biomedical Engineering University of Rochester Robert B. Goergen Hall Rm. 306 Box 270168 Rochester, NY 14627 https://trace-bmps.org http://mcgrathlab.bme.rochester.edu twitter: @nanomembranes jmcgrath@bme.rochester.edu…
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Krishanu Shome's Thesis Defense
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Ph.D. Public Defense Interaction of Light with Metallized Ultrathin Silicon Membrane Krishanu Shome Advisor: Professor Philippe M. Fauchet Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Time 9:00 a.m. Place Wilmot 116…
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Blanca giving UR BME seminar tomorrow
“Dynamic Particle Manipulation in Microfluidic Devices Employing Dielectrophoresis” Dr. Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas Associate Professor Microscale Bioseparations Laboratory Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:30 am River Campus Robert B. Goergen Hall Sloan Auditorium,…
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Please Fill out Purchasing Form for Rina
Do not just send her an e-mail. The form found is found here
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NxStage System One Now Cleared for Night Time Hemodialysis in Europe
NxStage System One Now Cleared for Night Time Hemodialysis in Europe Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:13 AM PST Hemodialysis is a time consuming process that typically requires multiple weekly sessions lasting a few hours each being stuck to a stationary…
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Lab tours on Friday
Prospective Graduate Students will be touring the lab this Friday from 12:30-1:00. Please be working in the lab and ready to engage!
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Hemodialysis update – Feb. 2013
Here is an aggregate of the recent posts/data on the Hemodialysis Project … Device Design/Demo Design idea for assembling multiple chips Gasket design for counter flow dialysis chip Peclet chip demo – > Dialysis Membrane modifications to prevent protein binding (HD…
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October Journal Club: Single Nanopore Particle Analysis
We will devote the first NRG meeting of each month to journal club. First up is Karl who will review two papers describing the use of single nanopore membranes as a method of characterizing particle size and zeta potential on…
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