Xuewen (Wilson) Chen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Computational Bioengineering Group Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center 8701 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509 (414)-456-5798 (414)-456-6568(Fax) Email: wchen@phys.mcw.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2007, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
  Dissertation: Coupling of Nitric Oxide Transport and Blood Flow: A Computational Modeling Approach
• M.S., Applied Mathematics, 2003, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
  Thesis: A Nonlinear Viscoelastic Mooney-Rivlin Thin Wall Model for Unsteady Flow in Stenosis Arteries
• B.E., Thermal Engineering , 2001, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
  Concentration: Fluid Mechanics

Research Interests

• Cellular Metabolism and bioenergetics
• NO and O2 transport in microcirculation
• Coupling of transport and intra-cellular signaling pathways

Journal Papers

• Chen X., Buerk D.G., Barbee K.A. and Jaron D., A Model of NO/O2 Transport in Capillary-perfused Tissue Containing an Arteriole and Venule Pair. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 35(4): 517-529, Apr 2007
• Chen X., Jaron D., Barbee K.A., and Buerk D.G., The Influence of Radial RBC Distribution, Blood Velocity Profiles, and Glycocalyx on NO/O2 Co-transport, Journal of Applied Physiology, 100(2): 482-92, Feb 2006.

Conference Posters

• Chen X., Buerk D.G., Barbee K.A. and Jaron D., Network Model Of Blood Flow And Nitric Oxide Transport In Rat Skeletal Muscle, 2006 BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Sept. 27- 29, 2007.
• Chen X., Buerk D.G., Barbee K.A. and Jaron D., A Computer Model of NO/O2 Transport Around an Arteriole-Venule Pair, 2006 BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Oct. 11- 14, 2006.
• Chen X., Buerk D.G., Barbee K.A. and Jaron D., The influence of RBC Distribution and Blood Velocity Profiles on Arteriolar NO/O2 Transport, 2004 BMES Annual Fall Meeting, Oct. 13- 16, 2004.
• Buerk D.G., Chen X. and Jaron D., Effects of hemodynamic velocity profiles, plasma boundary layers, and glycocalyx on modeling coupled NO and O2 mass transport in arterioles, FASEB JOURNAL 18 (4): A372-A372 Suppl. S, Mar 23 2004.

Conference Talks

• Chen X., Buerk D.G., Barbee K.A. and Jaron D., A Model of NO/O2 Transport in Capillary-perfused tissue containing an arteriole and venule pair. 27th Annual Internaltional Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Sept. 1- 4, 2005.
• Chen X., Tang D., and Kobayashi S., A Nonlinear Viscoelastic Thin Wall Model for Unsteady Flow in Stenotic Arteries, The 2nd MIT Conference of Computational and Fluid Mechanics, 2003.