From		To		Degree		Institution
		2005		BS - General Engineering		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Period		Description		Organization
September 2003 - May 2005		Undergraduate research assistant with Dr. Narayan R. Aluru in the Computational Electronics Group.		Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Engineering
June 2004 - August 2004		Undergraduate research assistant with Dr. Thomas Boland in the Nanoscale Biointerfaces Laboratory.		Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes
May 2003 - August 2003		Summer engineering intern in the linear actuation group.		MPC Products Corporation
May 2001 - January 2003		Radiology technician aide.		Highland Park Hospital

- Vascular tissue engineering. Specifically, the retention of endothelial cells within tissue engineered vascular grafts.

Shu Q. Liu - Vascular Regenerative Engineering

Liu SQ, Alkema PK, Tieche C, Tefft BJ, Liu DZ, Li YC, Sumpio BE, Caprini JA, Paniagua M (2005). Negative regulation of monocyte adhesion to arterial elastic laminae by signal-regulatory protein and SH2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-1. Journal of Biological Chemistry: 39294-39301.

Tefft BJ, Tefft JA (2007). Galilean relativity and the work-kinetic energy principle. The Physics Teacher: 218-220.

Tieche C, Alkema PK, Tefft BJ, Liu SQ (October, 2006). Reduction of leukocyte adhesion to elastic laminae scaffolds by lactose-impregnation. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Alkema PK, Tieche C, Tefft BJ, Liu SQ (October, 2006). Vascular smooth muscle cell migration in response to collagen and elastic laminae. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Tefft BJ, Tieche C, Alkema PK, Liu SQ (April, 2006). Differentiation of endothelial cells from CD133+ bone marrow stromal cells and adhesion strength of SHP-1 knockdown endothelial cells for vascular regeneration. Biomedical Engineering Poster Day. Evanston, IL.

Tefft BJ, Boland T (August, 2004). Application of stereolithography to organ printing. Second Annual Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes Symposium . Clemson, SC.

2006 - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award


2005 - Royal E. Cabell Fellowship at Northwestern University

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