A huge congratulations goes to PhD student Ken Brandon, who has been awarded the NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship! This fellowship will provide the majority of his stipend for the remainder of his PhD work over the next ~1.5 years. Receiving this fellowship is a huge accomplishment, and we are thankful for this new support! Congrats, Ken!
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Congratulations to Ian Smith, whose first-author paper was accepted for publication in the journal Microfluidics and Nanofluidics! This paper is titled, "High throughput cell mechanotyping of cell response to cytoskeletal modulations using a microfluidic cell deformation system." Congrats also to other lab member co-authors, including Pranav Majeti, undergrad), Nikka Givpoor (previous undergrad and current PhD student), Shohini Banerjee (current PhD student), and Autumn Hengen (former undergrad). Also, thanks and congrats to our collaborators at UMB, including Jeanine Ursetti, Megan Stemberger, Chris Ward, Stuart Martin, and Joe Stains.
Congratulations to PhD student Ian Smith, who has been selected as the recipient of the department's Fischell Fellowship this year! This award will provide full stipend funding for 1-2 semesters this year. Congrats Ian, and thanks to the BIOE department for their support!
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!!
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