Seven undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.
This year’s recipients from BME include:
Ryan Chou – Standardizing the Incorporation of Operative Difficulty into Surgical Skills Assessment
Kevin Nguyen – Single-Molecule Dynamics of DSIF-Mediated Recruitment of Early Elongation Factors in Live Yeast Cells
Yi Xin “Bobby” Ni – Immune Kinetic and Comparison for a Composite in Tissue Remodeling
Ritvik Pulya –Regeneration of Retinal Neurons from Mouse Müller Glia by Suppression of Rbpj-Mediated Notch Signaling
Sampath Rapuri –Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning Model for Pulmonary Embolism Prediction in Intensive Care
Erick Rocher – Engineering Novel Branched Polymeric Nanoparticles for High-Efficiency Gene Delivery
Xingyu “Brian” Zhou – Use of Whole-Brain Synaptic-Resolution Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy for Analysis of Differential AMPA Receptor Expression in SynGAP Knock-Out Mice