2016 Scholars and Mentors
Jason Weis - Georgia Tech
Petit Scholars
Mentor: Ian Miller
Project: Optimizing the heat inducibility of engineered T cells
Lab: Gabe Kwong
Seonggeon Cho - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Young-Doug Sohn
Project: Identification of the therapeutic effect of human LEPC encapsulated peptide amphiphile gel on arm lymphedema and its effectiveness in restoring lymphatic function
Lab: Young-sup Yoon
Renee Copeland - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Andrew Tadros
Project: Ionic liquids for transdermal drug delivery to treat complications associated with cardiovascular disease
Lab: Mark Prausnitz
Ana Gomez del Campo - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Aiden Payne
Project: Quantifying Differences in Balance for Rehabilitation and Robotics
Lab: Lena Ting
Neil Hardy - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Conner Herndon
Project: Zebra fish cardiac tissue period doubling dynamics at high frequency stimulation
Lab: Flavio Fenton
Brandon Holt - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Aaron Enten
Project: Whole Blood Primary Cellular Component Isolation
Lab: Todd Sulchek
Rebecca Hu - Georgia Tech
Petit Endowment
Mentor: David Hanna
Project: Investigating Heme as a Mitochondrial Retrograde Signal
Lab: Amit Reddi
Troy Kleber - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Brandon Stauffer
Project: Characterization of Novel Peptides binding CFTR
Lab: Nael McCarty
Jacqueline Larouche - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: John Nicosia
Project: Characterizing fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Leyla Larsson - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Po-Yi Ho
Project: Modulation of DNA methylation for increased efficiency of NSC differentiation
Lab: Yuhong Fan
Blake Lash - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Joscelyn Mejias
Project: Enhancing Chitosan Nanoparticle Delivery to Lung Epithelial Cells
Lab: Krishnendu Roy
Yun-Hsuan (Stellina) Lee - Emory University
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Kathleen Bates
Project: Development of a low-cost fluorescence microscope for examining neuronal activity in active circuits
Lab: Hang Lu
Cyril Lukianov - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Sung In Lim
Project: Opening the Intracellular Environment to Therapeutic Proteins that Deliver Themselves
Lab: Julie Champion
Jennifer Min - Emory University
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Zachary McEachin
Project: Development of a stem cell model of the pediatric neuromuscular disease DSMA1
Lab: Gary Bassell
Sean Monahan - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Ilbin Lee
Project: Data Analytics for Uncovering Utilization of Pediatric Dental Care
Lab: Nicoleta Serban
Alex Moran - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Erin Garcia
Project: Analysis to determine lifetime cost of pediatric depression
Lab: Nicoleta-Serban
Kaley Parchinski - Georgia Tech
Cook Regentec
Mentor: David Reece
Project: Development of a neocartilage analysis method using contrast-enhanced microCT
Lab: Robert Guldberg
Brittaney Parks - Georgia Tech
Pavithra Chandramowlishwaran
Project: Development of a low-cost fluorescence microscope for examining neuronal activity in active circuits
Lab: Yury Chernoff
Kishan Pithadia - Georgia Tech
Regenerative Engineering & Medicine Center Scholar
Mentor: Brett Klosterhoff
Project: Dynamic Morphometry Analysis of Regenerating Bone
Lab: Robert Guldberg
Mindy Ross - Georgia Tech
Pruitt Scholar
Mentor: Tyler Nelson
Project: Assessment of lymphatic dysfunction in obesity by development of a novel metric of lymphatic vascular permeability using near-infrared (NIR) imaging
Lab: J. Brandon Dixon
William Rountree - Georgia Tech
UCB Scholar
Mentor: Yogi Patel
Project: Shape memory polymer electrodes for chronic peripheral nerve stimulation
Lab: Robert Butera
Megen Wittling - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Mariana Delfino Machina
Project: Characterization of Metalloproteinases during neural crest EMT and migration
Lab: Shuyi Nie
