Department of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Gallippi earned a B.S.E in electrical engineering and a certificate in engineering biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Duke University. Her professional service roles off campus include Chair of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Basic Science Community of Practice, Associate Editor for the journals IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control and Ultrasonic Imaging, and editorial board member for the journal IEEE Open Access Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB), and charter member of an NIH study section. She lives in Cary, NC with her husband and three children. Her favorite hobbies include spending time with her family and running.

Dr. Gallippi’s research focuses on developing medical ultrasound technologies to meet vital needs in clinical diagnostics. Areas of particular emphasis include advancing noninvasive ultrasound for delineating the structure and composition of carotid atherosclerotic plaque for stroke risk prediction, monitoring renal transplant health, tracking dystrophic muscle degeneration, and differentiating breast lesions.

Dr Papadopoulou is a Research Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Her research aims to bridge the different areas dealing with bubbles in the bloodstream, from environmentally triggered endogenous bubbles, to engineered contrast agents for ultrasound imaging and therapy. She joined the laboratory of Prof. Paul Dayton at UNC Chapel Hill in 2016, where her research focuses on in vivo cancer imaging and therapy, as well as minimising decompression stress from scuba diving. She works on assessing tumour neovascularisation with novel ultrasound imaging techniques, optimising trans-epithelial drug transport with acoustically-active nanodroplets and improving radiation therapy using oxygen microbubbles. She is also the 2017 recipient of the Divers Alert Network/Bill Hamilton Memorial Grant, awarded by the Women Divers Hall of Fame, for her on-going work translating state-of-the-art ultrasound microbubble imaging techniques to create a dynamic assessment of decompression bubbles. Previously, she worked in the laboratory of Dr Meng-Xing Tang at Imperial College London where she developed an ultrasound imaging prototype to acquire 3D vascular flow dynamics in healthy volunteers. She received her PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London in 2016, where her thesis focused on bubble formation, growth and circulation dynamics in vivo from hyperbaric decompression, relevant to scuba divers and astronauts to prevent decompression sickness.