Janet Goldenstein, Graduate Student
janethb@berkeley.edu

Janet Blumenfeld received a B.S. in mechanical engineering at Tufts University and a M.S. in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the UCSF and UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. Janet's research focuses on the registration and analysis of musculoskeletal magnetic resonance images of the hip, knee and tibia.

Janet Blumenfeld's Research Home Page

Gabby Blumenkrantz, Graduate Student
gabby.blumenkrantz@radiology.ucsf.edu

Gabby Blumenkrantz received a B.S in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the UCSF and UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. Her research interests include magnetic resonance imaging of the knee and spine. Currently, Gabby is investigating novel imaging methods for the early detection of osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease.

Karl Saldanha, Graduate Student
karl.saldanha@radiology.ucsf.edu

Karl Saldanha is currently a student in the UCSF and UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. He received his undergraduate degree in bioengineering from UC Berkeley in 2005. Karl's research interests include biomedical imaging and tissue engineering. Currently, he is investigating the use of magnetic resonance imaging to monitor iron-oxide labeled stem cells. This has future applications to in vivo detection of transplanted cell populations, as well as in vivo longitudinal tracking of tissue regeneration therapies.

Ehsan Saadat, Medical Student
Ehsan.Saadat@UCSF.edu

Ehsan Saadat is a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Bioengineering with an emphasis in Tissue Engineering and Imaging from UC Berkeley in 2006. Ehsan’s research interests include non-invasive detection of biochemical and biomechanical properties of musculoskeletal tissues, with an emphasis on cartilage. In collaboration with Drs. Sharmila Majumdar and Thomas Link (UCSF Radiology), and Drs. Michael Ries and Benjamin Ma (UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery), Ehsan is investigating the clinical application of novel MR imaging methods for non-invasive and early detection of cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis. Additionally, in collaboration with professor Karen King (University of Colorado), Ehsan is studying the effect of cyclical in vivo joint loading on cartilage biochemistry and biomechanics using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging in a rabbit model.

Miki Sode, Graduate Student
miki.sode@ucsf.edu

Miki Sode received her B.A. in physics with minor emphasis in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.S. in aerospace engineering from San Jose State University. She became interested in bone loss in space while working for the Stanford Radiology Department at NASA Ames Research Center. She joined the Ph.D. program at the UCSF and UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering after working in the UCSF Radiology Department. Miki's current projects are motion artifacts during high-resolution pQCT scanning, regional analysis trabecular bone structure at the distal tibia and radius, and effect of non-weight-bearing on trabecular bone structure. She's also the resident pâtissier of the lab.

2009 Summer Students

• Jasmine Edelstein, High School Student
• Charles Fang, Undergraduate Student
• Devashish Joshi, High School Student
• Kimberly Loo, Undergraduate Student
• Justin Lucas, Medical Student
• Charles Ouyang, High School Student
• Danielle Perez, High School Student
• Swetha Shanbhag, Undergraduate Student 

2008 Summer Students

• Charles Fang, Undergraduate Student
• Kimberly Loo, High School Student
• George Lu, High School Student
• Sweta Ramachandran, Undergraduate Student
• Adan Romero, Undergraduate Student
• Sarmad Siddiqui, Undergraduate Student
• Derek Speer, Undergraduate Student

Katrina Lin

Alex Pai

Kiran Sekhon 

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