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Fjorela Xhyliu

Chemical Engineering

Contact

  • fxhyliu@umich.edu

Education

  • PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2025 (Expected)

  • MS in Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2020

  • BS in Chemical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2019

Research

  • Fjorela is interested in engineering protein nanoparticle systems for bioimaging and therapeutic purposes.

Previous Experience

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Geyou Ao Lab, Cleveland State University, 2019-2020

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Materials Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Summer 2019

  • Teaching Assistant, Washkewicz College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2019

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Geyou Ao Lab, Cleveland State University, 2017-2019

Awards

  • Rackham Merit Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2020

  • Graduate Leadership Award, Washkewicz College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2020

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NIST-SURF), 2019

  • Third place winners, Senior Design Symposium, Washkewicz College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2019

  • Engineering Student Award, Washkewicz College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, 2017

Publications

  • Xhyliu, F., Ao, G., “Surface- coatings and light-controlled oxygen doping of carbon nanotubes” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021.

  • Zhao, J., Hu, Yi., Liu, H., Fang, C., Li, C., Xhyliu, F., Bodo, J., Dysert, H., Habermehl, G., Russell, B. E., Li, W., Chappell, M., Jiang, X., Ondrejka, S. L., His, E. D., Maciejewski, J, P., Yi, Q., Anderson, K. C., Munshi, N. C., Ao, G., Valent, J. N., Lin, J., Zhao, J., Lin, J., “miR-26a as a novel potential therapeutic via inhibit CD38 translation and may overcome datatumumab resistance in multiple myeloma(MM)” J. Immunol., 2020.

  • Xhyliu, F., Ao, G., “Chirality-pure carbon nanotubes show distinct complexation with recognition DNA sequences” Carbon, 2020.

  • Hu, Yi., Liu, H., Fang, C., Li, C., Xhyliu, F., Dysert, H., Bodo, J., Habermehl, G., Russell, B. E., Li, W., Chappell, M., Jiang, X., Ondrejka, S. L., His, E. D., Maciejewski, J, P., Yi, Q., Anderson, K. C., Munshi, N. C., Ao, G., Valent, J. N., Lin, J., Zhao, J., “Targeting of CD38 by the tumor suppressor miR-26a serves as a novel potential therapeutic agent in multiple myeloma” Cancer Res., 2020.

Presentations

  • International Association for Dental Research (IADR/AADR/CADR), Washington DC, USA, 2020 (oral)

  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Student Collaboration Lab, London, UK, 2019 (oral)

  • Biomaterials Day, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2019 (poster)

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Colloquium, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-SURF), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 2019 (oral)

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2018 (oral)

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2018 (poster)

  • The Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Poster Session, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2018 (poster)

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2017 (poster)

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2017 (poster)

  • The Fall 2017 Undergraduate Research Poster Session, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, 2018 (poster)