Weihsien (Willy) Lee

Lee

MS, Biomedical Engineering

Born in Taiwan, one of the most respectful healthcare insuring place, I grew my interest in making a difference to healthcare industry. With all the passion on helping patients and physicians get most use of healthcare data, I am excited to join the Big Ideas Lab. I believe in the humungous potential between big data and healthcare.

I had done Magnetorheological Drawing Lithography based microneedle studies during Undergrad and electric-field-stimulation on Schwann Cells dealing with nerve repair and regeneration on my first masters year.

I do a lot of sports and workouts. I love hiking in forests as well. The best thing in Durham is the natural environment we have.

Education

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (-2020)

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, SYSU (2018)

Research Interests

Past Projects:
  • Participated in research of Electric Filed Stimulation (EFS) on Macrophages.
  • Validated activities in Macrophages phenotypes, optimized in-Vitro device for cell stimulation.
  • Cultured Schwann cell, Raw 264.7, NHEK cells to study and determine the cell lines for better reaction to EFS.
  • Applied Clinical Applied Electric Field on macrophages to modify the phenotype of Macrophage for Nerve Repair.
  • Conducted research on novel fabrication of microneedle using Magnetorheological Drawing Lithography (MRDL).
  • Use of COMSOL Multiphysics 5.0 simulating calculation for microneedle to discover magnetic force
  • Use of magnetorheological drawing lithography to pierce rabbit skin to determine the efficiency of transdermal drug delivery
  • Utilized triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) for walking generation of power.