Translational Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
Part of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at NC State University and UNC-Chapel Hill
We are proud of our lab’s two newly minted PhDs. Jacob and Ricky both defended their thesis in June 2025, and are leaving the lab the same month. Both of them have been such an integral part of the lab these last few years and we’re sad to see them go.
Last weekend was graduation, and TORL was proud to have four students graduating this year — two grad students and two undergrads.
Aasim will be starting at University of Texas at Austin in the fall. He’ll be pursuing a PhD in their Biomedical Engineering, initially doing rotations with Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez and Dr. Stephanie Seidlits
Andre will be starting as a level 1 engineer with Spectrum Plastics.
Lewis will be beginning a post doc in a few weeks with Danny Freytes, who served as Lewis’s co-advisor for his PhD. He won’t be going far (in fact, the Freytes Lab is the next bench down from ours so really not far!) but we’ll still miss having him as part of our group.
Danielle is putting the final touches on her dissertation and will be defending later this summer. We’re of course very excited for her, but also glad to not be losing her quite yet!
Graduation 2019 was an exciting day for the lab. We graduated our first two Ph.D students: Stephanie and Paul. We also had three undergrads graduate this year: Emily, who joined our lab four years ago as a freshman, as well as Alex and Raghad, who joined us last summer.
Stephanie will be going on to a post-doc in at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Emily is going on to grad school at the University of Delaware. Alex and Raghad have both gotten great jobs in industry here in RTP.
Congratulations graduates!
Congratulations to our seniors, Zack and Anya, who graduated this weekend. Anya graduated from Biomedical Engineering, and Zack graduated from the Materials Science and Engineering Department.
We’re so proud of you guys!
