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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

Jennifer An

Angela Capawana

Michaela Harris

Grace Huber

  • Mentors: Nhi Phan MEng, Noah Campbell
  • Project: Quantification of neurite infiltration into MAP using floating section staining
  • 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

Emma Lee

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: LOVAMAP descriptor analysis
  • School: Stanton College Preparatory School student

Steven Lee

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

Albert Liu

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

Auggie Poysungnoen

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

Aman Prassana

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

Arushi Sivasankar

Chloe Tamis

  • Mentor: Elle Caston
  • Project: Optimizing a 3D MAP cell culture model for non-adherent cells
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Colin Wang

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Analyzing simulated MAP scaffolds using LOVAMAP and higher dimensional analysis
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Ari Willig

Yan Yang

  • Mentor: Nhi Phan, MEng
  • Project: Astrocyte migration in MAP
  • School: Duke University undergraduate