Ruogang Zhao

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Suny Buffalo Schools of Medicine and Engineering
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Ruogang Zhao pursuit her Doctorate degree in Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D.), University of Toronto in the year 2011.He then carried his Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioengineering- Biological physics in Johns Hopkins University in the year 2013. He started his profession as Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering in University of Suny Buffalo from 2013. He was awarded for Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Doctoral Award in the year 2009.

Research Intrest

Microfabricated biomaterials, cell and tissue mechanics, mechanobiology, magnetic approaches for biomechanics, finite element modeling

List of Publications
Zhao R, Boudou T, Wang WG, Chen CS, Reich DH (2013) Decoupling cell and matrix mechanics in engineered microtissues using magnetically actuated microcantilevers. Adv Mater 25: 1699-1705.
Zhao R, Simmons CA (2013) A simple method to estimate the exponential material parameters of heart valve tissue based on analogy between uniaxial tension and micropipette aspiration. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 12: 1283-1290.
Zhao R, Chen CS, Reich DH (2014) Force-driven evolution of mesoscale structure in engineered 3D microtissues and the modulation of tissue stiffening. Biomaterials 35: 5056-5064.