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Lidan You, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Toronto

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Webpage

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Research Interests

• Bone adaptation to mechanical loading
• Mechanotransduction in bone cells

Education

• PhD - City University of New York - 2002
  Thesis - A New View of Mechanotransduction in Bone Cell

Project

• Effect of oscillatory fluid flow on proliferation rate of hMSC cells

Using micro- and nano-fabrication techniques, fabricate a bone-cell compatible artificial lacunar-canalicular system into which osteocytes can extend processes, and through which controlled fluid flow profiles can be delivered.

Publications

Award

• The Harold Shames Biomedical Engineering Award for Graduate Academic Excellence - 2001

Last updated 10/25/2006