Bhupinder Shergill

In his post-doctoral position as a biomedical engineer, he has developed expertise in medical devices, such as the bio-artificial pancreas. In this role, he has designed and build prototype devices via Solid works, 3D printing, SU-8 lithography, and collaboration with outside industry. As the leader of a small team of graduate students, he characterized his prototype devices in vitro and in vivo (mouse/rat models). Promising results enabled us to receive proposal funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

He studied Notch signaling, a developmental molecular signaling pathway, as a graduate student before working on medical device development. Using optical tweezers and quadrant photodiodes, he investigated the protein-protein biophysical mechanics cells exhibit on micro-beads. He was lucky to work with beautiful collaborators at the University of California, Los Angeles, to develop Lab View and Matlab software to acquire and analyze data. Our work resulted in two successful publications in Developmental Cell. During graduate studies, he developed a passion for device design and development. As a result, being allowed to pursue his passion, he has thrived in the field.

He has been a researcher for ten years and has truly enjoyed being on the front lines of science. Discovering new ideas, writing proposals and papers to validate research, describing new techniques and technologies, brainstorming with incredible people, and always learning something new are not taken for granted. He graduated from the University of California in Irvine with a B.S.A graduate of the University of the Pacific.