BME Undergraduate Students Awarded ARESTY Research Grants

The Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates (ARC) has awarded research grants to several BME undergraduate students. These awards are made possible by the late Jerome and Lorraine Aresty who feel that research is very important to a student's experience at Rutgers.

Alyssa Kosmides supervised by Dr. Androulakis titled "Circadian cortisol dynamics using a secretory model"

Neel Shah supervised by Dr. Boustany titled "Cultivation chamber in time-lapse microscopy of live cells"

Alson Wu supervised by Dr. Cai titled "Roles of Dbx1CR5 in regulating Dbx1 in mouse neural development"

Alex Krasner supervised by Dr. Craelius titled Measuring spasticity in children with cerebral palsy"

Vincent Lou supervised by Dr. Firestein titled "Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) as an in vitro model to study traumatic brain injury (TBI)"

Namrata Kulkarni supervised by Dr. Langrana titled "Differentiation of mESCs into osteoblasts using chitosan-alginate based polyelectrolyte complexes"

Tapan Patel supervised by Dr. Lobel titled "Enzyme replacement therapy for LINCL"

Parth Patel supervised by Dr. Moghe titled "Linking Rho activity and early cytoskeletal features to long-term stem cell behavior"

Isaac Perron supervised by Dr. Shreiber titled "In vitro characterization of peptide glycomimetics immobilized on collagen scaffolds to promote peripheral nerve regeneration"

Sameer Sood supervised by Dr. Shreiber titled "Mechanical analysis of cell contracted collagen for the strengthening of vascular grafts"

Melissa Lash supervised by Dr. Uhrich titled "Amphiphillic macromolecules for therapeutic protein delivery"

Eric Pludwinski supervised by Dr. Yarmush titled "Mesenchymal stem cell differentiation in alginate-based beads"

Neal Kamdar supervised by Dr. Zahn titled "Electrophoretic DNA fractionation and recovery via microfluidic devices composed of an agarose membrane"