We are excited that Nikka Givpoor (UMD BIOE '24) will be joining us as a new (direct admit) graduate student this August! Nikka worked in our lab as an undergraduate student (Feb. 2023 - May 2024) and has already co-authored a recent bioRxiv paper. She will be funded by a NIH Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA), which is through our new NCI/UMD Partnership for Integrated Cancer Research seed grant in collaboration with Dr. Meera Murgai at NCI. Welcome to the lab, Nikka! We are so excited to have you back in the lab!
We are grateful for new funding awarded from the NCI/UMD Partnership for Integrated Cancer Research! This seed grant award will provide funding for one graduate student for up to two years. The project will be a collaborative effort with Dr. Meera Murgai at NCI and will focus on developing a niche-in-a-dish platform for quantitatively analyzing the role of stromal components on disseminated tumor progression. Thank you to the NCI/UMD Partnership program for this new funding!
Congrats to PhD student Shohini Banerjee, who recently accepted a fellow position in the UMD Writing Center. While continuing to work on her PhD in our lab, Shohini will help others improve their writing as a writing center fellow. Congrats, Shohini!
Huge congratulations to PhD student Ken Brandon, who successfully defended his PhD proposal today. Ken's PhD project is titled, "Quantifying spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of endothelial cell junction phenotypes and permeability of mTOR kinase-inhibited cells." He now advances to PhD candidacy and will complete his dissertation over the next ~2 years. Congrats, Ken!!
Congratulations to BIOE undergrad Azkah Anjum ('26) and CBMG undergrad Yoshi Chettri ('25), who have been accepted into the BIOE and CBMG department Honors Programs, respectively. Azkah will spend the next two years working on her Honors thesis project, while Yoshi will be spending the next year on his thesis project. Congrats to both!
Huge congratulations to our BIOE seniors Udit Gupta, Autumn Hengen, and Nikka Givpoor, who recently graduated with their B.S. in Bioengineering! All three will be continuing on to pursue their PhD in Bioengineering or Biomedical Engineering. Udit will join Johns Hopkins BME, Autumn will join Georgia Tech BME, and Nikka will be staying with us in UMD BIOE! Congrats to all!
Huge congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Udit Gupta, who has been awarded the Excellence in Research Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research! Udit presented his work at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Day in April 2024. This $500 award recognizes his excellence in research and is well deserved! Well done, Udit!!
Autumn and Udit recognized with Outstanding Senior Award from Fischell Department of Bioengineering!4/22/2024
We are excited to share that two of our lab's undergrads, Autumn Hengen and Udit Gupta, have been chosen as this year's recipients of the Outstanding Senior Award from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering! We are blessed to have both recipients in our lab! Awesome job, Autumn and Udit!!!
A huge congratulations goes to undergraduate researcher Autumn Hengen, who successfully defended her Honors thesis today! Her thesis was titled, "Characterization of Aquaporin 5 in Breast Cancer Spheroid Formation, Invasion, and Angiogenesis." Autumn has worked in the lab since February 2022, soon after which she was accepted into the Bioengineering Honors Program. While in the lab, Autumn completed her 2-year thesis, co-authored a paper, presented her work at Undergraduate Research Day and the BMES Mid-Atlantic JHU-UMD event, and contributed towards multiple other manuscripts that are in their final stages. She recently received the 2024 Outstanding Senior Award from the Fischell Department of Bioengineering as well as an Honorable Mention recognition from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship competition. Autumn will be pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech starting this fall. Great job and congratulations, Autumn!!!
Congratulations to undergraduate researcher, Yoshi Chettri, who was selected to receive the SPIRE Award from UMD's Office of Undergraduate Research! This award will provide a $3000 stipend to support his summer research in the lab. Great job, Yoshi!
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