The University of Texas at Austin's Office of the Vice President for Research awarded six biomedical engineering undergraduate students with Undergraduate Research Fellowships for the spring semester.
The University of Texas at Austin's Office of the Vice President for Research awarded six biomedical engineering undergraduate students with Undergraduate Research Fellowships for the spring semester. Fellowships provide financial support for scholarly research projects that are supervised by faculty. Congratulations to the following students:
- Brian Lam (supervisor Aaron Baker; Angiogeneic Effects of Biohybrid FGF-NLS Constructs)
- Christine Laramy (supervisor Laura Suggs; In Silico and In Vitro Integrin Binding of an Ester-containing, Self-assembling Analog of the RGD Cell Binding Peptide)
- Arjun Rao (supervisor Adela Ben-Yakar; Surgical Treatment of Vocal Fold Scarring with High-speed Ultrafast Laser Endo-scalpel)
- Marissa Ruehle (supervisor Laura Suggs; Evaluating cell adhesion and viability on novel bioactive hydrogel substrate)
- Ishna Sharma (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Development of protein-recognitive nanoparticles for diagnostic applications)
- Kayla Walter (supervisor Steven Vokes; Determining the Transcriptional Regulation of Genes during Mouse Limb Development)
There were 18 Undergraduate Research Fellowship recipients in the Department of Biomedical Engineering for the fall 2013 semester, including:
- Alexandra Atalis (supervisor James Tunnell; Gold Nanorod Concentration Within Multicellular Tumor Spheroids and its Effect on Cell Necrosis and Apoptosis During Photothermal Therapy)
- Poorvi Bhargava (supervisor Amy Brock; The Role of Brain Expressed X-Linked 1 & 4 Genes on Tumorigenesis and the Tumor Microenvironment in the Development of Breast Cancer)
- Elizabeth Fischer (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Surface decoration of poly(methacrylic acid-co-N-vinyl-pyrrolidone) hydrogels)
- Hannah Frizzell (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Oral Delivery of siRNA using pH-Responsive Hydrogel Nanoparticles)
- Khang Huynh (supervisor Andrew Dunn; Validation of a Spatiotemporally Multiplexed Two-Photon System for Single Molecule Tracking in vivo)
- Anvita Jain (supervisor Mary Jo Kirisits; The Effect of Iron Impurities within Carbon Nanotubes on Pseudomonas aeruginosa)
- Sharwin Khot, (supervisor Amy Brock; Analysis of Early Gene Expression Changes in Mammary Tumor Formation)
- Isac Lee (supervisor Jeanne Stachowiak; Enhancing the specificity of drug delivery systems using phase-separated lipid vesicles that facilitate multivalent binding)
- Natalia Mejia (supervisor Kenneth Diller; Heat rejection design for cryotherapy thermoelectric cooler device)
- Sahil Naik (supervisor John X.J. Zhang; Fabrication of PVDF-TrFE nanofiber based pressure sensors for cardiovascular applications)
- Ludovic Pao (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Advanced Biomaterials for Oral Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics)
- Divya Ramamoorthy (supervisor Laura Suggs; Impact of Mechanical Stimulation and Biochemical Cues on the Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells for Use in Regenerative Medicine)
- Jay Shah (supervisor James Tunnell; Analyzing Uptake and Localization of Gold Nanoparticles in Monolayer Cell Culture for the Photothermal Therapy of Cancer)
- Aazim Sitabkhan (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Molecularly imprinted core-shell nanoparticles for recognition of macromolecular biomarkers)
- Andrew Stier (supervisors Kenneth Diller and Nanshu Lu) Raising the Core Body Temperature by Applying Heat of Glabrous Surfaces During Vasodilation)
- Yevgeniya Vinogradova (supervisor James Tunnell; Project to Assist Disabled in Computer Use)
- Vanessa White (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Oral Delivery of Liver Cancer Therapeutics via Hydrogel Nanoparticles)
- Stephanie Yarborough (supervisor Nicholas Peppas; Optimization of protein loading and release from poly(methacrylic acid copolymerized N-vinyl pyrrolidone) hydrogels)
