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Xiaoming He

Assistant Professor


Dr. He's research and interests include heat and mass transfer in medicine and biotechnology; cryobiology and biopreservation; thermal therapy, hyperthermia, cryosurgery; molecular, cellular and tissue engineering; biomechanics and biothermodynamics; bionanotechnology and biomems.

Education
  • Postdoctoral, Biomedical Engineering, Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, 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 
Selected Publications
  • He, X., Park, E.Y.H., Fowler, A., Yarmush, M.L., and Toner, M. “Vitrification by Ultra-fast Cooling at a Low Concentration of Cryoprotectants in a Quartz Microcapillary: A Study Using Murine Embryonic Stem Cells”,  in review, Cryobiology 2007
  • He, X., Fowler, A., Menze, M., Hand, S., and Toner, M. “Desiccation Kinetics and Bio-thermodynamics of Glass Forming Trehalose Solutions in Thin Films”, in review, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2007
  • He, X., Fowler, A., and Toner, M. “Water Activity and Mobility in Solutions of Glycerol and Small Molecular Weight Sugars: Implication for Cryo- and Lyo- Preservation”, Journal of Applied Physics 2006; 100 (7): 0747021-07470211
  • He, X., Fowler, A., and Toner, M. "Thermally Induced Introduction of Trehalose into Primary Rat Hepatocytes", Cell Preservation Technology 2006; 4(30: 178-187
  • Aksan, A., Irimia, D., He, X., "Desiccation Kinetics of Biopreservation Solutions in Micro-channels", Journal of Applied Physics 2006; 99 (6): 0647031-0647039
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