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!
Huge congratulations to Udit Gupta, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, who was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! This fellowship will fully support his first 3 years of his PhD research. Awesome job, Udit!
Also congrats to Autumn Hengen, who is completing her BIOE undergraduate Honors thesis in the lab. Autumn was recognized with an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention! Great job, Autumn! Today Kim gave the NHLBI seminar talk and had the opportunity to meet with NIH investigators. Huge thanks to everyone in NHLBI for a great day and many inspiring conversations!
Congratulations to PhD student Shohini Banerjee, who received Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship! This $5000 award will support her research this summer. Thanks to the UMD Grad School for their support of Shohini's research!
Congratulations to Shohini Banerjee, who successfully defended her PhD proposal today! She now officially advances to PhD candidacy and plans to graduate in spring 2025. Awesome job, Shohini!
William Rodriguez Frank, an undergraduate student from the University of Puerto, spent the past summer in our lab through support of the UM-STAR Program. He presented his summer research at the 2023 ABRCMS Meeting this month! Congrats and great work, William!
Congratulations to Shohini Banerjee, whose first author paper titled, "Methods for studying mammalian aquaporin biology" was accepted for publication in the journal Biology Methods and Protocols! Also congrats to co-authors Ian Smith (PhD student) and Autumn Hengen (undergrad researcher)!
Dr. Stroka has joined the Editorial Board of the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering!
Dr. Stroka at CMBE editorial board luncheon at 2023 BMES Conference: Congratulations to Esha Chopra, an undergraduate student researcher, who has received the MTech ASPIRE Award to support her research in fall 2023! Great job, Esha, and thank you to MTech for their support!
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