2018 Scholars and Mentors
Alina Antonova - Emory University
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Sruthi Ravindranathan
Project: Improving Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation by Increasing Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Content with Flt3L
Lab: Edmund-Waller
Anthony Aportela - Georgia Tech
GB Espy Scholar
Mentor: Conner Herndon
Project: Experimental and Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electrical Propagation in Bio-engineered Sinoatrial Node Tissue
Lab: Flavio Fenton
Ji Bok - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Yash Chitalia
Project: Construction of a Multi-DoF Robotic Endoscope for Pediatric Hydrocephalus Treatment
Lab: Jaydev Desai
Alexander Choi - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Fangxu Sun
Project: Systematic and Site-specific Analysis of N-sialoglycosylated Proteins on Cell Surface
Lab: Ronghu-Wu
Kamari Dansby - Georgia Tech
Pruitt Scholar
Mentor: Yue Wu
Project: Study the Gold Nanoparticles’ Impact on Cancer Cell Exosomes for Inhibiting Cancer Progression
Lab: Mostafa-El-Sayed
Will Flanagan - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Jonathan Camargo Leyva
Project: Electrode array for EMG signals
Lab: Aaron Young
James Forsmo - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Laura Weinstock
Project: Characterizing the Dynamics of Macrophage Signaling and Polarization
Lab: Levi-Wood
Bryan Jenkin - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Claudia Montllor-Albalate
Project: Improving Hemeprotein Discovery Through Use of Azide Tagged Heme
Lab: Amit Reddi
Justin Kahla - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Quoc Mac
Project: Logic-gated Synthetic Biomarkers for Improved Detection Specificity of Organ Transplant Rejection
Lab: Gabe-Kwong
Harish Kamath - Georgia Tech
Mercy's Children Hospital
Mentor: Michael Riley
Project: It’s POWER - Procedures are Optimized when Empathy Rules
Zahra Mousavi Karimi - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Nate Dwarshius
Project: Alginate Core-shell Scaffolds for Enhance CAR T Cell Manufacturing
Lab: Krishnendu-Roy
Kijoon Kim - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Bailey Hannon
Project: Genipin as a Crosslinker and Potential Glaucoma Therapy
Lab: C.-Ross-Ethier
Eun Chan Kwak - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Dawit Lee
Project: Smart Controlled Pediatric Powered Lower-limb Exoskeleton
Lab: Aaron Young
Jenni Li - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Shivesh Chaudhary
Project: Investigating the Effect of Neurotransmitter Mutations on C. elegans Whole-brain Dynamics
Lab: Hang-Lu
Renee Julia Manalo - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Robert Hincapie
Project: Antigen-specific Immune Tolerance via Enzyme-packaged Protein Particles
Lab: M.G.-Finn
Wesley Mantingou - Morehouse College
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Seung Yup 'Paul' Lee
Project: Non-invasive Optical Techniques to Study the Brain in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
Jonathan Mitchel - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Mengnan Zhang
Project: Indirectly Targeting Cancer Genes Through Transcription Factors
Lab: John McDonald
Stephanie Sanchez - Agnes Scott College
Petit Endowment
Mentor: Angel Santiago-Lopez
Project: Optogenetic Control of DCC Signaling for Guided Axonal Regeneration
Andrea Santiago - Georgia Tech
Petit Endowment
Mentor: Andrew Tadros
Project: Investigation of STAR Particle Insertion Depth and Drug Delivery Enhancement
Lab: Mark-Prausnitz
Fiona Splaine - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Kelsey Kubelick
Project: Photomagnetic Nanoparticles for Glaucoma Therapy and Image-guided Tissue Engineering
Lab: Stanislav Emelianov
Samantha Torres - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Molly Hopper
Project: Targeted Metabolomics Tools to Understand Beneficial Effects Associated with Physical Activity
Lab: Facundo Fernandez
Amitej Venapally - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Jay Haynes
Project: Investigating the Role of the Ancestral Ribosome in Proto-peptide Formation
Lab: Loren Williams
Caroline Wu - Georgia Tech
Petit External Advisory Board
Mentor: Christian Waiblinger
Project: Pushing the Perceptual Boundary Towards Optimal Performance in a Detection Task with Changing Stimulus Statistics
Lab: Garrett Stanley
