BME students awarded 22 Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Twenty-two of the thirty-three recipients from the Cockrell School of Engineering are Biomedical Engineering students! This award of up to $1000 may be used to further the students’ research or attend a conference. Congratulations to our 22 winners and to their professors and labs.

• Student: Dariela Almeda – Supervisor: Dr. Krishnendu Roy
  Project Title: DLL4 and HLA Class I Tetramer-Functionalized Microbeads for Differentiation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells into T Cells
• Student: Zachary J. Bevis – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Spinal Cord Nerve Regeneration
• Student: Ian A. Buchanan – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Synthesis of Novel Biodegradable Electrically Conductive Polymer
• Student: Farha A. Butt – Supervisor: Dr. Nicholas Peppas
  Project Title: Molecularly Imprinted Biosensor Polymer
• Student: Patrick C. Cheng – Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Jose Yacaman
  Project Title: Silver Nanoparticle Research for Antibiotic Applications
• Student: Spencer W. Crowder – Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas
  Project Title: Comparison of Properties and Cellular Interaction for PLGA and PLA-PEG Nanoparticles Containing Rhodamine, Indocyanine Green and Doxorubicin
• Student: Stephen R. Dietz – Supervisor: Dr. Nicholas Peppas
  Project Title: pH-sensitive Polycationic Nanogels for Intracellular Drug Delivery
• Student: George Aaron Dominguez – Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Zaman
  Project Title: Quantitative Analysis of Tumor Cell Adhesion
• Student: Blake M. Fechtel – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Assessment of Spinal Cord Regeneration as Encouraged by an Optimized Accellular Nerve Graft
• Student: Heidi M. Gensler – Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas
  Project Title: Silver Nanocage System for Combined Imaging and Therapeutics in Cancer
• Student: Harrison J. Hocker – Supervisor: Dr. Mia Markey
  Project Title: Travel to Present at the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium in Chicago, Illinois
• Student: Sylvia Huynh – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Encapsulation of Neural Progenitor Cells in Collagen-Hyaluronic Acid Impenetrating Networks for Nerve Regeneration
• Student: Patrick N. Ingram – Supervisor: Dr. John Zhang
  Project Title: Efficient Screening of Neurotropic Influenced Neuron Differentiation Controlled by Microfluidic Devices
• Student: Yann-Fuu Kou – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Characterization of Polypyrrole Surface Properties
• Student: Yungah Lee – Supervisor: Dr. Zhiwen Zhang
  Project Title: Mapping Dimerization Domain of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A using Serial Site-directed Mutagenesis and Specific Chemical Cross-linking
• Student: Candis C. Massingill – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: Rheologic Properties of Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid
• Student: Jared Mendeloff – Supervisor: Dr. Stanislav Emelianov
  Project Title: Non-invasive Temperature Monitoring using Photoacoustic Imaging in Ex vivo Tissue
• Student: Shanique A. Roberson – Supervisor: Muhammad Zaman
  Project Title: Correlations of Persistence and Cell-Matrix Interactions in Tumor-Cell Migration
• Student: William N. Rodney – Supervisor: Dr. Mia Markey
  Project Title: Travel to Present at the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium in Chicago, Illinois
• Student: David N. Shau – Supervisor: Dr. Jothanan Dingwell
  Project Title: Stability of Gait Kinetics near the Preferred Walk-Run Transition Speed
• Student: Jeja B. Syeda-Nawaz – Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
  Project Title: De-doping Polypyrrole to Determine Dopant Stability after Electropolymerization
• Student: Tiffany N. Vo – Supervisor: Dr. Konstantin Sokolov
  Project Title: Using Organotypic “Raft” Cultures to Help Detect Cancer