2014 Scholars and Mentors
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Kaitlin Ahlstedt - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Ashley Brown
Project: Rescuing Coagulopathy of Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass Patients using Novel Platelet-like Particles
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Dexter Allen - Emory University
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Deidre O'Connor
Project: Optimizing Lentiviral Vector use in the in Gene Based Neuromodulation
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Kevin Bai - Georgia Tech
Kolpitcke Scholar
Mentor: Kyung-Ho Roh
Project: Biomaterial-based Artificial Bone Marrow Niches for in vitro B Cell Generation from Hematopoietic Stem Cells
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Kristin Casey - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Pavithra Chandramowlishwaran
Project: Mutation Analysis of Amyloid Beta to Identify Sequence Elements that Control Amyloid-forming Capability
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Destiny Cobb - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Giuliana Salazar-Noratto
Project: Characterization of Osteochondritis Dissecans and Development of a Small Animal Model of its Progression
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Maria Diaz Ortiz - Georgia Tech
Pruitt Scholar
Mentor: Christopher Johnson
Project: A Critical Bone Defect Infection Model Utilizing an Engineered Bioluminescent Clinical Strain of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
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Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Warren Gray
Project: Pediatric CPC Exosomes to Treat Juvenile RV Dysfunction
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Conner Herndon - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Anthony Hazel
Project: Computational Determination of Small-Molecule Permeability
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Changdae Lee - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: "James" Po-Yen Wu
Project: A Mobile-based ICU Decision Support System
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Ashley Lockwood - Georgia Tech
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: Michael Baksh
Project: Identifying Small Molecule Modulators of the Cystic Fibrosis Transduction Receptor using Backscattering Interferometry
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Jung Mok - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Kaixiang Cao
Project: Investigation of the Interplay among H1 Binding and the Active and Repressive Histone Marks in Embryonic Stem Cells
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Rafael Ortiz - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Molly Ogle
Project: Role of Sphingolipid Signaling in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization and Homing
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Brian Sanner - Georgia Tech
Gertler-Clark Scholar
Mentor: Yogi Patel
Project: Project: Long-term Effects of Electrical Stimulation of Peripheral Nerves
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Peter Schnaak - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Betul Kacar
Project: Exploring the Pathways of Adaptive Protein Evolution in E.coli
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Jake Sebring - Georgia Tech
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scholar
Mentor: Maria Restrepo
Project: Surgical Planning of Fontan Procedure for Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Defects: A Robustness Analysis
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Sraeyes Sridhar - Georgia Tech
Dasher Scholar
Mentor: Jenna Wilson
Project: Engineering a Platform to Harness Embryonic Stem Cell Trophic Secretion
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Lambros Tassoulas - Georgia Tech
Mentor: Rachel Johnston
Project: Small Hairpin RNA Knock Down of Target Genes through Plasmid Transfection in Brachionus Manjavacas (rotifera)
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Evan Teng - Georgia Tech
Beckman Coulter Scholar
Mentor: Haylee Bachman
Project: Optimize Surface Display Expression of Proteins on E. coli Cells
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Thibault Twahirwa - Morehouse College
Medtronic Scholar
Mentor: David Molony
Project: Evaluation of Methodologies for the 3D Reconstruction of Coronary Arteries from Intravascular Ultrasound Images