Lab Group Members

Lab Director: Michael J. Moore, Ph.D.

Michael was born in Kimball, NE and attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received his B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering shortly after marrying his wife Lisa. They then moved to Rochester, MN, where Michael attended the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He pursued PhD research in the development of a biodegradable spinal cord implant under the direction of Prof. Michael Yaszemski and Prof. Anthony Windebank, and completed his PhD in 2005. Dr. Moore then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he conducted postdoctoral research in drug delivery for retinal neuroprotection under the direction of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT and Dr. Michael J. Young of the Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Moore joined the Tulane Biomedical Engineering faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2007. He and his wife Lisa and their two children live in the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans.

mooremj@tulane.edu

   
Graduate Members  

Jennie Burns

Hometown: Oakland, NE

B.S. Physics

Creighton University, 2008

jburns3@tulane.edu

J. Lowry Curley

Hometown: Slidell, LA

B.S. Ceramics and Materials Engineering

Clemson University, 2007

jcurley@tulane.edu

Elaine Horn

Hometown: Raleigh, NC

B.S. Biomedical Engineering

Tulane University, 2008

ehorn1@tulane.edu

 

Emma Pineda Fortin

Hometown: San Pedro Sula, Honduras

B.S. Chemical Engineering

University of Notre Dame, 2008

epinedaf@tulane.edu

Undergraduate Members

Scott Jennings

Hometown: Shreveport, LA

B.S., M.S. Biomedical Engineering

Tulane University, 2009 projected

sjenning@tulane.edu

Nicolle Perez

Hometown: Rowlett, TX

B.S. Tulane University, 2009 projected

nperez@tulane.edu

 

Chris Rodell

Hometown: Peachtree City, GA

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. Physics,

M.S. Biomedical Engineering

Tulane University, 2010 projected

crodell@tulane.edu



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