Graduated from School of McCormick 1996 – B.S. Biomedical Engineering

After graduating from Northwestern in 1996, George worked for a healthcare company for 2 years prior to moving to an area in pharmaceuticals. In the former capacity, he worked in operating rooms of numerous hospitals in the Chicago land area, running blood salvage machines that recycled patient’s blood during surgeries. Since 1998, he as worked in research and development for TAP Pharmaceuticals (becoming Takeda Pharmaceuticals in 2008). He has worked in many areas dealing with clinical trials, from creating database structure and capture of trial information, to writing protocols for new investigational studies. He is currently finishing up a master’s degree from Northwestern at night in the area of public policy and administration in healthcare.

Kunal Sur is a Senior Manager at Quidel Molecular. He is currently leading an effort to develop molecular diagnostic platforms for infectious diseases and cancer diagnosis. Kunal has a PhD. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology & Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. His research experience ranges from the development of low cost diagnostic platforms and smart pumps to molecular assay development . He has developed a method of sample preparation which could significantly lower testing cost and increase access to HIV diagnostics in Africa. He has also worked on protein folding, plasma separation and fluid flow pattern recognition algorithms.

During her time at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Lynn earned a Bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering, received a Neonatal Research grant from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, held a research position at Northwestern's Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and won a President's Undergraduate Research Award for her research in drug delivery technology. She then consulted in a Market Research role with a start-up venture out of Boston University. This led to a position at Abbott Molecular Diagnostics in Chicago, where she worked to improve the quality and viability of biological material used in the manufacturing process for Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH) diagnostic products. She is currently the Global Subject Matter Expert for the Automated FISH Processing System (Xmatrx) and manages Abbott Molecular's Xmatrx Field Service strategy. Lynn is a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association and represents the Chicago Chapter as a Corporate Partners Liaison.

I received my Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University in 2005. My focus was Biomechanical Engineering. As an undergraduate, I worked as a co-op student at Medtronic in Minneapolis in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division. I received my Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2007; the focus of my research was cardiac MRI. I joined Baxter in the spring of 2008 in the Engineering Development Program (EDP). My rotations in the program were in Cellular Therapies and Human Factors Engineering. I graduated from the EDP at the end of 2009 and joined the IV Therapy Nutrition division as a Senior Engineer. In the fall of 2010, I was promoted to Project Manager, Lifecycle Management for IV Therapy. My current responsibilities are primarily managing the process for requesting, reviewing, and tracking product support projects, and supporting the Lifecycle Management teams which guide and execute those activities. My career has undergone a lot of change in the past 4 years. I am excited about where I am right now, and I maintain that studying Biomedical Engineering was one of the best decisions of my life.

Sylwia Migas is a current junior at Northwestern University, double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Psychology. This past year she was one of the co-presidents for Northwestern’s chapter of Biomedical Engineering Society and the International Service Chair for New Life Volunteering Society. During the winter quarter of 2011, Sylwia was a facilitator for the Freshman Emerging Leaders Program, helping incoming students develop their leadership skills. She is currently a research assistant in a psychology lab that studies language and cognitive development in infants and toddlers.