Engineering Assistant

Mary Beth Wilson

Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative Advanced Regenerative

Medicine (PTEI ARM V) Fellowship

Post-doctoral fellowship awarded to fund doctoral training for 2 years at 50%

BME Teaching Assistant Award

Nominated and selected by BME faculty

Phil & Marsha Dowd-ICES Fellowship

4 of 28 CMU PhD applicants awarded funding for one year

AADR Student Research Fellowship

Proposal titled Mineralization Potential of Radicular Dentin Dysplasia Pulp Cells

AADR Hatton Competition Finalist, Junior Category

1 of 9 finalists; Competition identifies junior investigators with potential for a

productive career in dental research

American Association for Dental Research (AADR) Bloc

Travel Award

Awarded to attend International Association for Dental Research annual meetings

Overall competition winner

UAB School of Dentistry Scholar s Symposium

1st place in Basic Science Category

UAB School of Dentistry Scholar s Symposium

William T. Lankford Jr. Memorial Scholarship

Presented to a graduating Materials Science & Engineering senior who exemplifies

true scholarship, high standards, great potential, and the willingness to help others unselfishly

Phi Kappa Theta award CMU Meeting of the Minds

Poster titled FeCo Nanoparticles for Extracellular Matrix Tissue Engineering

Scaffold Degradation Tracking

J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship

Awarded by the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society (ACeRs)

Judith Resnik Challenger Scholarship for Women

Competitive award to cover half tuition at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon University, August 2009 present

Graduate Research Assistant

Advisor: Philip LeDuc

Engineering synthetic vascular networks for liver regeneration via microfluidics- and materials-based approaches

University at Alabama at Birmingham, June 2007 July 2009

Graduate Research Assistant

Advisor: Mary MacDougall

Effect of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) on dental pulp differentiation

Carnegie Mellon MSE / Univ of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, May 2004 May 2007

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Advisors: Prashant Kumta (CMU) & Charles Sfeir (Pitt)

Characterization of nano-calcium phosphate particles for non-viral gene delivery

ECM protein interactions via RGD dependent and independent mechanisms

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Biomedical Engineering, Expected 2013

Cumulative GPA 4.00/4.00

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

DMD/PhD dual-degree program,

School of Dentistry and Biomedical Engineering

June 2007 July 2009

Cumulative GPA 4.00/4.00

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dual in Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering,

May 2007

Graduated with Honors

Cumulative GPA 4.00/4.00

PhD

BS

Research Experience

Awards & Honors

Professional & Other Activities

CMU Graduate Student Assembly Representative

Selected to represent Department of Biomedical Engineering

CMU Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society

Executive Board member & Secretary

UAB Dental Student Research Group

President (2008-2009)

Volunteer, Hospital Elder Life Program, UPMC Shadyside

Interact with senior-age patients to prevent or slow the development of delirium

2010-present

2009-present

2007-2009

2004-2006

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