2015 Scholars and Mentors
Elman Amador - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Jason Lamanna
Project: Post-transplantation Fate of Neural Stem Cells Transplanted into the Porcine Spinal Cord: Migration, Differentiation, and Immune Response
Ananyaveena Anilkumar - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Nathan Rohner
Project: An in vitro Lymph Node-on-a-chip for Evaluating Immune Cell Response to Altered Lymph Node Microenvironments
Catherine Chou - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Marian Hettiaratchi
Project: Development of Heparin Microparticle-Modified Collagen Sponges for Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (BMP-2) Delivery for Bone Regeneration
Alex George - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Udit Agarwal
Project: Delivering Human Pediatric Progenitor Cells to a Model of Juvenile Heart Failure
Karisma Gupta - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Vicky Stefanelli
Project: Fibrin-Microgel Composites For Enhanced Repair of Cardiomyopathy
Lucky Khambouneheuang - Emory University
Mentor: Jack Heath
Project: Shear Stress-responsive microRNA 199a-3p Plays an Important Role in Aortic Valve Stenosis
Leandre Kibeho - Morehouse College
Mentor: Samantha Au
Project: One-step Purification of Dehydrogenases Employing an Aqueous Two-phase Extraction System
Fanwei Kong - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Kyle Murdock
Project: Develop an in vitro Flow Loop System to Validate the CFD Simulation Results for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Deployment in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Patients
Michelle Kwon - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Shannon Hill
Project: Engineering Mutant Myocilin for a More Thermally Stable Protein
Alix Macklin - Georgia Tech
Pruitt Scholar
Mentor: Kimberly Lang
Project: Directional Acuity during Whole-body Perturbations to Standing Balance
Sameer Mishra - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Ryan Hoffman
Project: Project: Predictive Modeling of Patient Descriptors and Outcomes using Pan-Cancer Omic Data
Brady Munz - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Mike Tree
Project: Validation of a Patient-specific In-Vitro Fontan Circulation
Brandon Philbrick - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Torri Rinker
Project: Heparin-based Microparticles for Temporal Control of Biomolecule Release
Ellen Pikus - Georgia State University
Mentor: Ellenor Brown
Project: Sensorimotor Control During Physiological Sympathetic Activation
Megan Rich - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Yash Chitalia
Project: Tool Usage by an Assistive Mobile Manipulator for Activities of Daily Living
Yichen Wang - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Robert Mannino
Project: Increased Erythrocyte Rigidity is Sufficient to Cause Endothelial Dysfunction in Sickle Cell Disease
Justin Williams - Georgia Tech
GB Espy Scholar
Mentor: Igor Rupniewski
Project: Evolution of a Lysine Utilizing Intein
Jennifer Zhang - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Dwight Chambers
Project: Project: Extracelluilar Stiffness "Pries" Apart the Nuclear Membrane's Regulation of TGF-Beta
