Education:

• 2000 B.S., Electrical Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
• 2004 M.S., Computer Science, California State University, San Bernardino
• 2007 M.S., Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University
• 2013 Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Research Interests:

• Tissue Engineering
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Analog Front-End for Biomedical Applications

Selected Publications:

• D. Gallego-Perez (‡), D. Pal(‡), S. Ghatak(‡), V. Malkoc, L. J. Lee et al. Topical tissue nano-transfection mediates non-viral stroma reprogramming and rescue. Nature Nanotechnology (2017). doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.134. ‡ Equal contribution.
• V. Malkoc, D. Gallego-Perez, T. Nelson, J.J. Lannutti, D.J. Hansford. Controlled neuronal cell patterning and guided neurite growth on micropatterned nanofiber platforms. J. Micromech. Microeng. 2015; 25: 125001
• D. Gallego-Perez, L. Chang, J.Shi, J. Ma, S. Kim, X. Zhao, V. Malkoc, L. J. Lee et al. On-chip clonal analysis of glioma stem cell motility and therapy resistance. Nano Lett., 2016, 16 (9), pp 5326–5332