Juan Jiménez | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Assistant Professor

BME Adjunct

N575 Life Sciences Laboratory

240 Thatcher Way
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-2210

email: juanjimenez at umass.edu

Jiménez Research Group

UMass IALS

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Education

BS, Michigan State University, 1999
MS, Princeton University, 2002
PhD, Princeton University, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

Research

Biomedical Engineering
Biofluids
Fluid Dynamics
Cardiovascular Engineering
Medical Devices
Vascular Biology
Cell Motility & Dynamics

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Publications

KR Bittner, JM Jiménez, SR Peyton. 2020 Vascularized Biomaterials to Study Cancer Metastasis. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 1901459
Welsh JD, Hoofnagle MH, Bamezai S, Oxendine M, Lillian L, Hall JD, Yang J, Schultz S, Engel JD, Kume T, Oliver G, Jiménez JM, and Kahn ML. 2019. Hemodynamic regulation of peri-valvular endothelial gene expression prevents deep venous thrombosis. J Clin Invest
Smith AF, Zhao B, You M, and Jiménez JM. 2019 Microfluidic DNA-based Potassium Nanosensors for Improved Dialysis Treatment. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 18 (1), 73
. 2019 Microfluidic DNA-based Potassium Nanosensors for Improved Dialysis Treatment. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 18 (1), 73
Davies PF, Manduchi E, Jiménez JM, Jiang YZ 2017. Biofluids, cell mechanics and epigenetics: Flow-induced epigenetic mechanisms of endothelial gene expression. Journal of Biomechanics 50, 3-10
Sweet DT, Jiménez JM, Chang J, Hess PR, Mericko-Ishizuka P, et al. 2015. Lymph flow regulates collecting lymphatic vessel maturation in vivo. J Clin Invest
Jiang YZ, Manduchi E, Jiménez JM, Davies PF. 2015. Endothelial epigenetics in biomechanical stress: Disturbed flow-mediated epigenomic plasticity in vivo and in vitro. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
Jiménez JM, Prasad V, Yu MD, Kampmeyer CP, Kaakour AH, et al. 2014. Macro- and microscale variables regulate stent haemodynamics, fibrin deposition and thrombomodulin expression. J R Soc Interface 11:20131079
Jiang YZ, Jiménez JM, Ou K, McCormick ME, Zhang LD, Davies PF. 2014. Hemodynamic disturbed flow induces differential DNA methylation of endothelial kruppel-like factor 4 promoter in vitro and in vivo. Circ Res 115:32-43
Davies PF, Manduchi E, Stoeckert CJ, Jiménez JM, Jiang YZ. 2014. Emerging topic: flow-related epigenetic regulation of endothelial phenotype through DNA methylation. Vascul Pharmacol 62:88-93
Jiménez JM, Smits AJ. 2011. Tip and Junction Vortices Generated by the Sail of a Yawed Submarine Model at Low Reynolds Numbers. Journal of Fluids Engineering-Transactions of the Asme 133:-
Jiménez JM, Reynolds RT, Smits AJ. 2010. The Effects of Fins on the Intermediate Wake of a Submarine Model. Journal of Fluids Engineering-Transactions of the ASME 132
Jiménez JM, Hultmark M, Smits AJ. 2010. The intermediate wake of a body of revolution at high Reynolds numbers. J Fluid Mech 659:516-39
Jiménez JM, Davies PF. 2009. Hemodynamically driven stent strut design. Ann Biomed Eng 37:1483-94

Honors

2019 NSF CAREER Award
2016 BMES Innovation and Career Development Award
2013 Poster Presentation Prize - 42nd Annual Philadelphia Workshop on Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis
2011 - 2016 Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award - NIH
2007-2010 Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award – NIH

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