Director

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James Ankrum, PhD

Director, Ankrum Lab
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
james-ankrum@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-7512

Current Graduate Students

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Riley Behan-Bush

Graduate Research Assistant
riley-behan@uiowa.edu
Ryan Byrd

Ryan Byrd

Graduate Research Assistant
ryan-byrd@uiowa.edu
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Jesse Liszewski

Graduate Research Assistant
jesse-liszewski@uiowa.edu
Yuan Wan

Yuan Wan

Graduate Research Assistant
yuan-wan@uiowa.edu

Current Undergraduate Students

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Lizzie Kilburg

Undergraduate Researcher
elizabeth-kilburg@uiowa.edu

Lab Alumni

Lauren Boland

MSTP, PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering

Devlin Boyt

MS in Biomedical Engineering

Alex Brown

MS Biomedical Engineering, 2017

Aaron Buelow

BSE Biomedical Engineering, 2017

Tony Burand

PhD Student in Biomedical Engineering

Riley Deutsch

BSE Biomedical Engineering, 2017

Lin Di

Undergraduate Researcher

Hannah Dobroski

Undergraduate Researcher

Maria Frazer

Undergraduate Researcher, 2019

Madeleine Humpal-Pash

Undergraduate Researcher

Yoshiaki Nagumo, MD

Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019

Meghana Palagiri

Undergraduate Researcher

Allison Peroutka

Undergraduate Researcher

Michael Schrodt

PhD, Biomedical Engineering, 2023

Bhavya Vats

Undergraduate Researcher

Fred Zasadney

BS/MS Fast-Track Biomedical Engineering, 2016