VASHISHTH LAB
Lab Members

Deepak Vashishth, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Rensselaer-Icahn School of Medicine Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine
Yamada Corporation Chaired Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Orthopaedics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PhD, University of London, 1997
MSME, West Virginia University, 1992
BE, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, 1988

Joan E. LLabre Ph.D.
Research Engineer
NIGMS T32 Fellow, Rensselaer Fellow
Associations Of Cognitive Dysfunction And Sleep Disturbances With Diabetes And Bone Fracture Risk
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS, University of Hartford, 2017

Emily Carvalho
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bone-Brain-Hormone Axis Underlying Age-Related Diseases
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2024
BS, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018

Shuangzhe Lin
Ph.D. Student
Osteocyte-based Bone Organoids for Disease Modeling and Validation of Therapeutic Targets for Bone Fragility.
MB, University of Pennsylvania, 2023
BS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2021

Kaylan Pan
Ph.D. Student
Ovarian Aging on the Bone-Brain-Gut Axis
BS, Barnard College, 2023
MS, Columbia University, 2025

Bowen Wang, Ph.D.
Research Engineer
OptumLabs Visiting Fellow
Exploring the Association of Glycemic Control and Tissue Functionality in Diabetes: A Mechanistic and Data Analytic Approach
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023
MS, Case Western Reserve University, 2018
BE, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2016

Runkang Chen
Ph.D. Student
The Role of Carboxymethyl-lysine (CML) in Skeletal Fragility Associated With Type 2 Diabetes and Osteoporosis
MS, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
BE, Northeastern Univerity, 2018

Junxu Peng
Ph.D. Student
The Effect of Extracellular Matrix Modifications on Bone Mineralization
BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023

Frederico Porto de Freitas Barbosa
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Multi-Layered Biodegradable and Piezoelectric Osteochondral Tissue Scaffolds: An In Vitro Platform for Modelling Osteoarthritis
MS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 2022
BS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 2019