J. Brandon Dixon is a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He heads the Laboratory of Lymphatic Biology and Bioengineering (LLBB). Among his most recent publications, Dr. Dixon developed a tissue engineered in vitro model to recapitulate lipid uptake by intestinal lymphatics.[1]

J. Brandon Dixon
Born
United States
Alma materTexas A&M University (Ph.D., B.S.)
Known forLymphatics
AwardsNSF Career Award, Outstanding BioE Adviser
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical engineering
Biomedical engineering
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorGerard Cote

Dixon began at the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2009 as an assistant professor. Prior to his current appointment, he was a staff scientist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) doing research on tissue-engineered models of the lymphatic system. Dr. Dixon received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M in biomedical engineering while working in the Optical Biosensing Laboratory, where he developed an imaging system for measuring lymphatic flow and estimating wall shear stress in contracting lymphatic vessels.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Dixon, J. Brandon. "A tissue-engineered model of the intestinal lacteal for evaluating lipid transport by lymphatics." Biotechnology and Bioengineering 103.6 (2009): 1124-235. Print.
  2. ^ Dixon. J. B., Gashev A., Zawieja D. C., and Cote G. L., "Measuring microlymphatic flow using high speed video microscopy", Journal of Biomedical Optics 10(6), 064016(1-7), 2005.
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