Alireza Sohrabi, a postdoctoral researcher working with Associate Professor Stephanie Seidlits, has received the 2022 BMES Burroughs Young Investigator Award.
The award recognizes talented early career postdoctoral fellows or early-stage career faculty who have successfully submitted one of the highest ranked general abstracts for the annual BMES Conference. He will receive a monetary award and complimentary registration for the conference, which will take place in San Antonio, Texas, in October.
With Seidlits, Sohrabi is working on development of 3D, ex vivo models to study gliobasltoma, a fast-growing and aggressive type of brain tumor. The main goal of the work is to understand how the tumor microenvironment affects the progression of the tumor.
He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in bioengineering, his M.S degree in chemical engineering-polymer science from University of Twente in the Netherlands, and his B.S. in polymer chemistry from Amirkabir University of Technology-Tehran Polytechnic.
