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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Madeleine Lu will defend her dissertation titled “Novel microfluidic technologies for evaluating red blood cell rheology during blood processing and in sickle cell disease”
on </span><u style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Wednesday</u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,
July 29th and 11 AM.</span><br>
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