Pekkan Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory

13/08/2023

Even the left and right hearts can be switched ... The failing single-ventricle put to new use providing pulsatile pulmonary support for pediatric heart disease patients. Our out-of-the-box approach is accepted for publication in Annals of Biomedical Engineering journal! Excellent team of authors and ERC funding. Very early version of this study can be found here:
https://lnkd.in/eQnxbVtC

02/06/2022

A nice ERC page of Koc University is published:

VASCULARGROWTH : Bioengineering prediction of three-dimensional vascular growth and remodeling in embryonic great-vessel development

21/04/2022

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kerempekkan_fontan-3dprinted-activity-6922832967736123392-bPhU?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web

~20 years ago we were conducting in vitro hemodynamic measurements of connections using big and cumbersome flow loops. Now we offer a practical...

22/12/2021

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kerempekkan_inslico-fontan-hemodynamics-activity-6879326022693609472-cS2U

02/09/2021

Two research positions are immediately available in our laboratory at Koc University/Istanbul. We are looking to hire one post-doctoral fellow and possibly one PhD student focusing one or more of these general topics:

(i) Biological microsystems, microfluidics, biosensors and microscopic particle velocimetry (PIV). Including alternative advanced biological microscopy techniques to study biofluids and bioinspired engineering problems. The ideal candidate either should be highly motivated or have experience in microfabrication and cleanroom work.
(ii) Advanced computational fluid and/or solid mechanics modeling of cardiovascular, biomedical, or biological systems.
(iii) Cardiovascular tissue engineering and artificial heart valve biomechanics.
(iv) Cardiovascular device design, macroscopic PIV and blood cell damage modeling/experiments/assessment
(v) Small animal experiments
(vi) Cardiovascular device entrepreneurship and commercialization

Competitive salary and support will be provided through our new ERC-PoC and Tubitak Leading Researcher (2247A) awards. Interested candidates should e-mail their CV’s, explaining their motivation and expertise, provide their previous successfully completed sample project reports or portfolio, published manuscripts and contact information of three references to Prof. Dr. Kerem Pekkan ([email protected]).

Prof.Kerem Pekkan
Mechanical Engineering
Koc University
Rumelifeneri - Istanbul 34450
http://www.facebook.com/pekkan.lab
www.linkedin.com/in/kerempekkan

28/06/2021

Hoping this is the last virtual conference. We attended https://sb3c.org and presented two posters on Fontan hemodynamics and embryonic ventricle mechanical properties.

Building on the legacy of previous summer bioengineering conferences, we are proud to announce the new and expanded SB3C2019.

27/01/2021

Our new vascular growth paper just published. Congrats to our dream team!

A new era in patient-specific surgical planning illustrated in our recent Journal of Biomechanics paper: https://lnkd.in/eJR7b2y First proof-of-concept...

20/12/2020

A theoretical work conducted by our lab. on Fontan circulation pulsatility to appear in AIP Advances journal.

14/10/2020

Our 2nd coronary artery by-pass hemodynamic optimization study just published: https://rdcu.be/b8tWH
in collaboration with Koc University Hospital (KUH).

28/08/2020

Last day of vph2020 meeting. Online conference format is very exciting and also 😀convenient. Samane received conference participation award and just did a great presentation.

25/08/2020

We are attending VPH2020 Paris - online. Today we presented in Tetralogy of Fallot meeting.

Inria and UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas invite you to the satellite event of VPH2020 conference organized by the Inria-UTSW associated team TOFMOD. The workshop is held online, as well as the whole VPH2020 conference, and is open to all VPH2020 registered participants. The workshop is organi...

13/05/2020

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kerempekkan_ttgv-on-twitter-activity-6666362166557372417-ucJe
THANKS ALL OUR LAB MEMBERS!!

Hemodyn - the spinoff company from my lab, received CE mark for its patient-specific hemodynamic surgical planning analysis platform as a Class IIa device...