Author: Daniel Maxenberger | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 Over the course of the 2022 Fall grant term, I continued to work in the lab of my honors mentor, Dr. Christopher Nelson, researching the possible polarization of macrophages using CRISPR...
Author: Isabel Powers | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 I am a Senior biomedical engineering major working on the second semester of this research project. I am researching this topic with guidance from Dr. Young Hye Song in the Biomedical...
Author: Julliana Renales | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 In the 2022 fall grant term, I worked with my honors mentor, Dr. Christopher Nelson, to use bioinformatic methods to understand genetic expression within diabetic wounds. As someone with a...
Author: Vitali Maldonado | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 Hello everyone! I am Vitali Maldonado, and I am studying biomedical engineering at the University of Arkansas. I am currently a senior and have been working in Dr. Samsonraj’s lab at the...
Author: Megan Wilkerson | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 I am Megan Wilkerson. My major is in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. My research investigates the utility of virtual reality (VR) as an educational tool in remote...
Author: Isobel Powers | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 I am currently researching the impact of extracellular vesicles on pancreatic cancer perineural invasion (PNI). My hypothesis is that pancreatic cancer cells use these vesicles to send...
Author: Loren Hedgecock | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Summer 2022 My name is Loren Hedgecock. I am a recent graduate of the Biomedical Engineering program at the University of Arkansas. During the past two years, I have worked on undergraduate research...
Author: Mary Jia | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2022 In early May of 2022, I attended the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) conference in Washington, D.C. along with my lab colleagues to present our research progress. It was the...
Author: Vitali Maldonado | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Semester: Spring 2022 My name is Vitali Maldonado, and I am finishing my junior year as a biomedical engineering student. On May 4th, 2022, I had the opportunity to go to the International Society for Cell...
Author: Jenova Kempkes | Major: Biomedical Engineering | Summer 2022 I recently spent the summer of 2022 in Kisumu, Kenya. When I left the country, I quite frankly had no idea what I was going to be doing for the next two months. After arriving in the country, I was...