Two More New Tenure Track Lines Added

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Jessica R. Kramer

Jessica R. Kramer is one of the newest additions to the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She received her bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Utah in 2004 where she worked in the lab of professor

C. Dale Poulter.

She then worked in industry for three years at Echelon Biosciences synthesizing phosphoinositide and isoprenoid compounds.

In 2007, Kramer began her National Science Foundation funded graduate studies in the lab of professor

Tim Deming

in UCLA’s chemistry department. She was awarded a doctorate in 2012. Her research focused on the synthesis and self-assembly of glycosylated polypeptides.

In 2013, Kramer joined the lab of professor

Carolyn Bertozzi

at University of California, Berkeley, as a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellow and a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. She joins the department from Stanford University and will continue her work on cell-surface engineering with synthetic mucin glycoproteins as an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering.

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Lucas Timmings

Lucas Timmins received a bachelor’s and doctorate from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He conducted a one-year fellowship in the Pathology Group at Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and post-doctoral training in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine.

Timmins’s research focuses on investigating the bio-mechanic relationships between the structural and biological alterations that occur as cardiovascular tissue evolves from the normal to pathologic state. The National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Whitaker International Program and Burroughs Welcome Fund have supported his research.

“I am very pleased that we were able to recruit Jessica and Luke. The competition for these talented researchers was intense,” said Patrick A. Tresco, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.