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VideoBarjor Gimi
Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering
Barjor.Gimi@Dartmouth.EDU
Education
- B.A., Physics, Lawrence University
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
- M.S., Bioengineering, University of Illinois
- Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Illinois
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests
Immunoprotective, cell-encapsulating, nanoporous microdevices: cell therapy for diabetes and cancer; optical imaging and MRI of the fate and function of engineered therapeutic cells; RF microdetectors for MRI of single cells; assessing the efficacy of cancer therapy using vascular and metabolic MRI
Selected Publications
- "SU-8-based immunoisolative microcontainer with nanoslots defined by nanoimprint lithography," Joonbum Kwon, Krutarth Trivedi, Krishnamurthy Nemani, Walter Hu, Jeong-Bong Lee, Barjor Gimi, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology Part B, Volume 27, Issue 6, pp. 2795-2800, 2009
- "Cell encapsulation and oxygenation in nanoporous microcontainers," Barjor Gimi, Joonbum Kwon, Li Liu, Yang Su, Krishnamurthy Nemani, Krutarth Trivedi, Yonghao Cui, Behroze Vachha, Ralph Mason, Wenchuang Hu, Jeong-Bong Lee, Biomedical Microdevices, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp.1205-1212, 2009
- "A Nanoporous, Transparent Microcontainer for Encapsulated Islet Therapy," Barjor Gimi, Joonbum Kwon, Andrey Kuznetsov, Behroze Vachha, Richard L. Magin, Louis H. Philipson, Jeong-Bong Lee, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 297-303, 2009
- "Simple Developmental Dyslexia in Children: Alterations in Diffusion-Tensor Metrics of White Matter Tracts at 3 T," Nancy Rollins, Behroze Vachha, Padmapriya Srinivasan, Jonathan Chia, Joyce Pickering, Carroll Hughes, Barjor Gimi, Radiology, Volume 251, Issue 3, pp 882-891, 2009
- "MRI of regular-shaped cell-encapsulating polyhedral microcontainers," Barjor Gimi, Dmitri Artemov, Timothy Leong, David Gracias and Zaver M. Bhujwalla, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 58, Issue 6, pp1283-1287, 2007
- "Cell viability and non-invasive in vivo MRI tracking of 3D cell encapsulating self-assembled microcontainers," Barjor Gimi, Dmitri Artemov, Timothy Leong, David H. Gracias, Wesley Gilson, Matthias Stuber, and Zaver M. Bhujwalla, Cell Transplantation: The Regenerative Medicine Journal (cover feature), Volume 16, Issue 4, pp 403-408, 2007
- "Diffusion-weighted and macromolecular contrast enhanced MRI of tumor response to antivascular therapy with ZD6126," Jens Vogel-Claussen, Barjor Gimi, Dmitri Artemov and Zaver M. Bhujwalla, Cancer Biology and Therapy (cover feature), Volume 6, Issue 9, pp 1469-1475, 2007
- "Self-assembled micropatterned and radio frequency (RF) shielded biocontainers," Barjor Gimi, Timothy Leong, Zhiyong Gu, Michael Yang, Dmitri Artemov, Zaver M. Bhujwalla, David H. Gracias, Biomedical Microdevices, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 341-345, 2005
- "NMR Spiral Surface Microcoils: Applications," Barjor Gimi, Sertac Eroglu, Lara Leoni, Tejal A. Desai, Richard L. Magin, Brian Roman, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering, Volume 18B, Issue 1, pp 1-8, 2003
- "NMR Spiral Surface Microcoils: Field Characteristics and Applications," Sertac Eroglu, Barjor Gimi, Brian Roman, Gary Friedman, Richard L. Magin, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering, Volume 17B, Issue 1, pp 1-10, 2003
Awards
- Negendank Prize, 2006
- Diabetes Technology Prize, 2002
Professional Activities
- Editorial Boards: Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering; Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B; Recent Patents on Nanomedicine; Visualization, Image Processing and Computation in Biomedicine
- Journal Reviewer: Cancer Research, Diabetologia, Clinical Cancer Research, Neoplasia, Advanced Biomaterials, Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, The American Journal of Pathology, Applied Magnetic Resonance, Radiation Research, Polymers, Journal of Microencapsulation, Current Medicinal Chemistry
- Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Health Research–UK, Department of Biotechnology–India, Welcome Trust, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
Current Research Projects
- Encapsulated cell therapy for type 1 diabetes and cancer
- Enzyme and microRNA therapy for cancer
- Bioluminescence imaging and MRI of anticancer therapy
- Diffusion Tensor MRI for white matter tractography