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Undergraduate and High School Mentees

Tahirah Abdullah

  • Mentor: Jeremy Thomas
  • Project: Developing MAP assessing BMDM responses in vitro
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Augustus Adams

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan
  • Project: Characterizing the effects of EVs from simulated astrocytes on macrophage populations
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Jennifer An

Angela Capawana

Veronika Costina

  • Mentor: Connor Miksch
  • Project Dynamic MAP
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Mark DeMonte

  • Mentor: Sydney Jeffs
  • Project: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Anna Edgecomb

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan
  • Project: Astrocyte migration in DBCO MAP in vivo
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Natalie Kley

  • Mentor: Pablo Cordero Alvarado
  • Project: Designing hydrogel scaffolds to modify the inflammatory pathways involved in wound healing
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Audrey Kpodar

  • Mentors: Cara Smith, Emma Whitehead
  • Project: Extracellular vesicle treatments for stroke in aged populations
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Steven Lee

  • Mentor: Elle Caston
  • Project: Evaluating regenerative properties of chiral biomaterials
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Noa Levin

  • Mentor: Emma Whitehead
  • Project: Brain fibrosis after stroke with MAP and MAP-CLUVENA
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Ting Ting Li

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan
  • Project:
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Fayanne Lin

Albert Liu

  • Mentor: Yunxin Ouyang
  • Project: Development of sialic acid conjugated for modulating immune cell phenotype
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Zoe Meadows

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan
  • Project: Quantification of astrocyte migration in DBCO MAP
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Cierra Min

  • Mentor: Andrea Jones, PhD
  • Project: OVX PT stroke model
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Hannah Newman

  • Mentor: Yunxin Ouyang
  • Project: Modification of microgels with bioactive glycans
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Jackie No

Aiden Pasinsky

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan, MEng
  • Project: TSP-1 delivery in MAP
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Martina Peroni

  • Mentor: Andrea Jones, PhD
  • Project: OVX PT stroke model
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Auggie Poysungnoen

  • Mentor: Yunxin Ouyang
  • Project: Assessing microglia & macrophage response to PSA-microgels
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Aman Prassana

  • Mentors: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Analyzing simulated MAP scaffolds using LOVAMAP and higher dimensional analysis
  • School: North Carolina State University undergraduate

Nicole Ratterman

  • Mentor: Emma Whitehead
  • Project: Brain fibrosis after stroke with MAP and MAP-CLUVENA
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Arushi Sivasankar

Vanessa Wu

  • Mentor: Pablo Cordera
  • Project: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate