{"id":12456,"date":"2014-10-17T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:56:22","slug":"utc-alumna-dr-stephanie-fraley-researches-drivers-cancer-metastasis-sepsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-alumna-dr-stephanie-fraley-researches-drivers-cancer-metastasis-sepsis\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC alumna Dr. Stephanie Fraley researches drivers of cancer metastasis and sepsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" data-attachment-id=\"12458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-alumna-dr-stephanie-fraley-researches-drivers-cancer-metastasis-sepsis\/fraley-stephanie-02-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,616\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D2X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1197317740&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fraley-stephanie-02-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12458\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fraley\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-580x446.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-610x469.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-250x192.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2-519x400.jpg 519w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-02-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As a UTC student, Dr. Stephanie Fraley was at the top of her class in the Chemical Engineering Department. Now, she uses the skills she learned in her position at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).<\/p>\n<p>Fraley earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from UTC, where she participated in a variety of research projects as well as a research thesis as a part of the Brock Scholar\u2019s Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most beneficial aspects of my time at UTC was the opportunity to be mentored one-on-one,\u201d said Fraley. \u201cHaving that mentorship was really important. The excellent professors in the Engineering Department and the Brock Scholars Program had a great impact on my life and career. Both programs helped me to develop persistence and broader thinking and gave me opportunities to test myself and my goals. It gave me new perspectives and a higher comfort level with the research process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Frank Jones was Fraley\u2019s professor and mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI taught her several courses. She also worked for my research group for about two years,\u201d said Jones. \u201cMy lab does research on micro-scale chemical reactors. Stephanie worked on computer simulations of micro-scale bioreactors. We presented and published many times and Stephanie won two national research awards. Though she was an undergraduate student, she was a fully- functioning member of the group, just like any grad student would have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The skills that Fraley learned at UTC have carried over to her current career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn classes, I learned the rules that describe how the physical world works and the methods to reason through almost any problem. This skill is something invaluable and transferrable that engineering teaches,\u201d said Fraley. \u201cThrough my involvement on multiple research projects, I got hands-on experience with prototyping and building devices in the machine shop, computer programming, modeling fluid dynamics in micro channels, and optimizing microfluidic design. I still use literally all of these skills in one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from UTC, Fraley earned her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2011 from Johns Hopkins University. Fraley was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, National Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, and was an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholar, Johns Hopkins Heath Fellow, and National Siebel Scholar. She also served as an ASEE\/NSF Engineering Innovations Fellow at Becton Dickinson Technologies, helping to further develop a rapid cell identification technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"12459\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/utc-alumna-dr-stephanie-fraley-researches-drivers-cancer-metastasis-sepsis\/fraley-stephanie-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"533,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;UC San Diego Jacobs School of En&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 6D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1410513254&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2014 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fraley-stephanie-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12459\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Fraley\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/fraley-stephanie-01.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Fraley joined the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego in July 2014 as an assistant professor of Bioengineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose to start my lab at UCSD because it&#8217;s a great place to do cross-disciplinary research. I love to work a problem from different angles and collaborate, so I bring together engineering, cell biology, infectious disease, and medicine,\u201d said Fraley.<\/p>\n<p>In the field of Bioengineering, researchers try to apply engineering principles and approaches to living systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach individual person can respond very differently to an infection. While a pathogen may cause severe illness in one person, another person may have little to no response to that same pathogen,\u201d said Fraley. \u201cFiguring out what modulates these host-pathogen interactions could lead to novel ways to treat infectious diseases, especially those leading to sepsis and some cancers. My research lab focuses on studying these interactions in new 3D cell based model systems and engineering new microfluidic and optical techniques to sort out and analyze molecular signals from both pathogen and human cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the future, Fraley plans to continue her research and move this technology from the lab to the real world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the near future, I hope to be developing some novel therapeutics and technologies based on my research findings and also be moving the technology I developed as a postdoc out into the world for rapid low cost pathogen DNA identification,\u201d Fraley explained.<\/p>\n<p>Fraley and her husband, who is in business and project management, are partnering with her previous advisor, now a clinician researcher at Stanford, to bring the technology to the market with their start-up company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Fraley topped her Chemical Engineering class. 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