2019 Summer Provost URI Fellowship Awardees

CIBM3 Undergraduate Students make history by having seven students selected for the 2019 Summer Provost Fellowship, three students selected for the HSRI Fellowship, and one student receiving a CIBM3 Fellowship for Summer Research in the lab – for a total of 11 students!

 

Thinuri Fernando
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Maciej Skotak, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The relationship between the reflected and transmitted pressure in a simplified geometry model: a parametric experimental study

Swata Gade
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Namas Chandra, Venkata Kakulavarapu, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Therapeutic Efficacy of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Supriya Iyer
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Maciej Skotak, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The relationship between the reflected and transmitted pressure in a simplified geometry model: a parametric experimental study

Navya Pendyala
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Namas Chandra, Venkata Kakulavarapu, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Central Auditory Pathology in Blast Induced Tinnitus/Hearing Loss

Rahul Shah
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Molly Townsend, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Evaluating the Effect of Skull and Brain Stiffness on Shock Wave Propagation in a Rodent Finite Element Model

Geetasravya Vegunta
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Madhuvika Murugan, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Measuring the dynamic properties of microglial cells after blast induced traumatic brain injury

Rashmi Venkatarama
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Venkatesan Perumal, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Minocycline Loaded Albumin Nanoparticle (myn-ANP) Synthesis and Characterization: Potential Nanomedicine Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury by Targeting Microglial Cells Activation

Honors College Awardees (HSRI)

Manisha Kannan
Major: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Venkatesan Perumal, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Apocynin loaded albumin nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation in in vivo TBI model.

Chandni Patel
Major: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Venkata RamaRao Kakulavarapu, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Changes in Synaptic and Axonal Proteins as a Function of Time in Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury

Zenit Winfield
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Maciej Skotak, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Rodent to human scaling laws: The evaluation of biofidelic materials for the rat head model under shock wave loading

CIBM3 Lab Awardee

Alekhya Thota
Faculty Advisor: Venkata RamaRao Kakulavarapu
Project: Blood Brain Barrier Permeability as Injury Criteria in Repeated Low-level Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (RbTBI)