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      300 Main Street
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      Columbia, SC 29208
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Xiaoming He

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Dr. He’s research focus is on Thermostability of biomaterials, cancer treatment, and cell/tissue engineering. For more information about Dr. He’s research, please visit the Multiscale Biothermostability Engineering Laboratory at  http://helab.openwetware.org/ .

Education
  • Postdoctoral, Biomedical Science and Engineering, Harvard University (Medical School), MA, 2007
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN, 2004
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 1998
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, 1995 
Awards
  • Research Opportunity Program Award, University of South Carolina, 2008
  • Best Poster Award, European Association of Urology, Madrid, Spain, 2003
  • Student Travel Award, Society for Cryobiology, Breckenridge, Colorado, 2002
Selected Publications
  • Zhang, W., Rong, J, Wang, Q., and He, X. Encapsulation and intracellular delivery of trehalose using a thermally responsive nanocapsule. Nanotechnology 2009; 20(27): Article No. 275101 (14pp) News highlights of this article: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/39621 http://www.nano.sc.edu/news.aspx?article_id=26
  • Zhang, W. and He, X. Encapsulation of living cells in small (~100 5m) alginate microcapsules by electrostatic spraying: a parametric study. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering-Transactions of the ASME 2009; 131: Article No. 074515 (6pp)
  • He, X., Bhowmick, S., and Bischof, J. C. Thermal therapy in urologic systems: a comparison of Arrhenius and thermal isoeffective dose (TID) models in predicting hyperthermic injury. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering-Transactions of the ASME 2009; 131: Article No. 074507 (12pp)
  • Yang, G., Zhang, A., Xu, L.X., and He, X. Modeling the cell type dependence of diffusion-limited intracellular ice nucleation and growth: Implications for cell cryopreservation by both vitrification and slow freezing. Journal of Applied Physics 2009; 105: Article No. 114701 (11 pp)
  • Li, D. and He, X. Desiccation induced structural alterations in a 66-amino acid fragment of an anhydrobiotic nematode late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein. Biomacromolecules 2009; 10: 1469-1477
  • Zhang, W.*, Yang, G.*, Zhang, A., Xu, L.X., and He, X. Preferential vitrification of water in small alginate microcapsules significantly augments cell cryopreservation by vitrification. Biomedical Microdevices 2009; In press, DOI: 10.1007/s10544-009-9363-z (*contributed equally)
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