M. NicholeRylander

M. Nichole Rylander
ProfessorDonald J. Douglass Centennial Professorship in Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Bioheat transfer; Nanomedicine; Biomedical optics; Tissue regeneration; Cancer engineering

About

Marissa Nichole Rylander received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and her master’s and undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering, all from The University of Texas at Austin. She was a faculty member at Virginia Tech for eight years in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences before joining the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin.

Her research involves multi-disciplinary elements of bioheat transfer, nanomedicine, biomedical optics, tissue regeneration, and cancer engineering. She is a current recipient of the Werner W. Dornberger Centennial Teaching Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin. She was awarded an NSF Early CAREER Award in 2010, focused on the development of a novel sensing system for characterization of the spatiotemporal tumor response to nanoparticle-mediated photothermal and photochemical therapy.

She has been awarded numerous grants from the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation, in addition to many internal grants. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in high-ranking journals such as PNAS, Nano Letters, Cancer Research, Nanomedicine, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering, and has graduated eight Ph.D. students and five M.S. students. She is the Co-Chair of the Biotransport Committee for the ASME Summer Bioengineering Division, has chaired sessions for the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference for the past five summers, and is serving on the ASME NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Steering Committee.

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, 2005
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2002
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2000

Select Awards & Honors

  • Y. C. Fung Young Investigator Award – American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2012)
  • Early CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (2010)
  • Faculty Fellow Award – Virginia Tech (2010)
  • Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award – Virginia Tech (2008)

Select Publications

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