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Dr. Liyun (Leann) Wang

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
204 Spencer Lab.
Newark, DE 19716-3140
E-mail: lywang@udel.edu

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DEGREES
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, City University of New York, New York, NY 2002
M.S. in Engineering (Electrical and Biomedical Engineering), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1993
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1990

SERVICE
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, 9/2005--

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, 2004-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2002-2004
Adjunct Assistant Professor , Departments of Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering, City College of New York, 2002-2004
Research Assistant , New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, 1996-2002
Senior Engineer , R&D Division, Legend Group Co. (now Lenovo), Beijing, China, 1993-1996

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Full-Length Publications

Wang, L ., Wang, Y., Han, Y., Henderson, S.C., Majeska, R.J., Weinbaum, S., and Schaffler, M.B. (2005) In Situ Measurement of Solute Transport in the Bone Lacunar-Canalicular System. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102, 11911-11916.

Wang, L ., Ciani, C., Doty, S.B., and Fritton, S.P. (2004)Delineating the Bone Interstitial Fluid Pathway In Vivo. Bone 34, 499-509.

Wang, L ., Fritton, S.P., Weinbaum, S., and Cowin, S.C. (2003) On Bone Adaptation due to Venous Stasis, Journal of Biomechanics36, 1439-51.

Wang, L ., Cowin, S.C., Weinbaum, S. and Fritton, S.P. (2001) In Response to “Mixing Mechanisms and Net Solute Transport in Bone” by M. L. Knothe Tate. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 29, 812-816.

Wang, L ., Fritton, S.P., Cowin, S.C., and Weinbaum, S. (2000) Modeling Tracer Transport in an Osteon Under Cyclic Loading, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 28, 1200-9.

Wang, L ., Fritton, S.P., Cowin, S.C., and Weinbaum, S. (1999) Fluid Pressure Relaxation Depends Upon Osteonal Microstructure: Modeling an Oscillatory Bending Experiment, Journal of Biomechanics 32, 663-672.

Zhang, Z., Wang, L., Gong, P., Li, J.A., and Pan, H. (1995) Research on the Fractal Dimension Property of 40 Hz Event-Related-Potentials (ERPs) and Their Relationship with Short Term Memory Capacity, Acta Biophysica Sinica 11, 538-542.

Abstracts and Presentations

Wang, L ., Wang, Y., Han, Y., Henderson, S.C., Majeska, R.J., Weinbaum, S., and Schaffler, M.B. (2005) Investigating the Structure of osteocytic pericellular matrix based on diffusion measurements in the bone lacunar-canalicular system. The 7 th International Bone Fluid Flow Workshop, Sept. 21, New York, NY.

Wang, L ., Li, C.Y., Humbyrd, C., Laudier, D., Majeska, R.J., Schaffler, M.B. ( 2005 ) Angiogenesis is coupled to remodeling in cortical but not in trabecular bone. Transactions of the 50 th Annual Meeting of Orthopaedics Research Society 30, 383.

Wang, L ., Wang, Y., Henderson, S.C., Majeska, R.J., and Schaffler, M.B. (2005) An Anatomically-based model of solute transport in the bone lacunar-canalicular system. Transactions of the 50 th Annual Meeting of Orthopaedics Research Society 30, 846.

Fyhrie, D.P., Zauel, R., Stockman, H., Wang, L ., and Schaffler, M.B. ( 2004 ) Simulation of Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching in an Osteocyte Network. The 6 th International Bone Fluid Flow Workshop, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Seattle, WA.

Wang, L ., Henderson, S.C., Majeska, R.J., and Schaffler, M.B. (2004) In Situ Measurement of Molecular Diffusion in the Osteocyte Lacunar-Canalicular System of intact bone. Transactions of the 50 th Annual Meeting of Orthopaedics Research Society 29, 327.

Wang, L ., Henderson, C., and Schaffler, M.B. (2003) Measuring Molecular Diffusion in an Intact Bone. The 5 th Bone Fluid Flow Workshop, March 16-17, Cleveland, OH.

Wang, L ., Doty, S.B., and Fritton, S.P. (2003) In Vivo Perfusion of Tracers of Various Size to Delineate Bone’s Interstitial Fluid Pathway. Transactions of the 49 th Annual Meeting of Orthopaedics Research Society 28, 400.

MEMBERSHIPS

Biomedical Engineering Society, 1996--
American Society of Biomechanics, 1998--
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1998--

HONORS & AWARDS

New Investigator Recognition Awards competition finalist, Orthopaedic Research Society, 2005

 New Investigator Recognition Awards competition finalist, Orthopaedic Research Society, 2004

 Young Investigator Award, The Fourth Bone Fluid Flow Meeting, Amsterdam, 2002

 Harold Shames Biomedical Engineering Award for Graduate Academic Excellence, New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, 2000

 New York Center for Biomedical Engineering Fellowship, City University of New York, 1996-2000

 Science and Technology Achievement Award, National Education Commission of People’s Republic of China, 1995

 Excellent Design Award, The 3 rd Conference for Chinese Young Biomedical Engineers, 1993

 Science and Technology Achievement Award, Science and Technology Commission of Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China, 1992