BME Undergrads place at Denman Forum

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This year’s Denman Undergraduate Research Forum was held on April 3. The Denman Forum is coordinated by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry and is sponsored in part by Mr. and Mrs. Denman, long-time members of the Ohio State community. This forum gives undergraduate students the opportunity to present their research to two judges. Each participants research is categorized and judged based off of the appropriate category. This year’s winners include Sunny Kwok, Tony Satroplus, Jacob Enders, Rachel Teater, Sophie Carus, Zach Brannan, Mukul Govande and Jesse Fine, all BME undergraduate students.

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Sunny Kwok
Sunny Kwok placed first in the category of “Cell Biology and Physiology.” His research is titled “Effects of blood pressure an intraocular pressure on ocular arterial blood flow: studies on in vitro models.” Dr. Jun Liu, professor, Ophtalmology and BME, is the principal investigator of the research. After graduating this semester, Kwok will be coming back to Ohio State in the fall for graduate school. He will be pursuing his PhD and will continue to do research in Dr. Liu’s lab.

 

 

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Mukul Govande
Mukul Govande won first place for his research in “Engineering: Health and Medicine.” His research is titled “Non-toxic treatment of breast cancer and its cutaneous metastasis: Capecitabine (XelodaTM)-enhanced PhotoDynamic Therapy in a murine tumor model. Govande worked under Sanjay Anad and alongside Anton Denisyuk at Maytin Lab at the Cleveland Clinic. He plans on finishing undergrad in Spring 2021 and plans on attending medical school after that.

 

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Zach Brannan
Zach Brannan also placed first in the “Pelotonia Award for Scientific Research” category. Brannan’s research is titled “EGFL7 Antagonizes NOTCH Signaling and Represents a Novel Targeted Therapy in AML.” Dr. Adrienne Dorrance, research assistant professor, Hematology, College of Medicine, acted as the principal investigator. Brannan will be graduating this semester and plans on attending medical school this fall.

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Jesse Fine and Dr. Gallego-Perez
Jesse Fine placed in third in the category “Towards Precision Cancer Medicine.” Fine’s research is titled “Application of thermoresponsive polymer to the development of a velocity-dependent cell-sorting microdevice.” This was co-authored by Natalia Higuita-Castro, Vashudha Chaurey-Shukla, and Daniel Gallego-Perez, assistant professor, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, acted as the principal investigator. Gallego-Perez is also Fine’s advisor. Fine will be attending Texas A&M in the fall where he was offered an engineering research center fellowship under Dr. Gerard Cote and Dr. Michael McShane. His research there will involve the development of point care medical devices for those without regular access to medical services.

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Tony Satroplus
Tony Satroplus won second place in the “Cell Biology and Physiology” category. The research Satroplus presented is titled “Mechanisms underlying CaMKII-induced arrhythmia in Ischemia/Reperfusion. Taylor Howard, Amara Greer-Short, Nehal Patel, Drew Nassal, Peter J. Mohler are all co-authors of the research and Thomas J. Hund, professor, BME, associate director of Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, acted as the principal investigator. Satroplus will be graduating this semester and plans on working as an EMT for a year before attending medical school in Fall 2019.

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Jacob Enders
Jacob Enders tied in third place in “Engineering: Health and Medicine.” His research is titled “Biomimetic and biophysical approach to profile metastatic cancer cell migration.” Ayush Garg helped write the research. The principal investigators of the research are Carlos Castro, associate professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Dr. Jonathan Song, assistant professor, mechanical and aerospace engineering. Dr. Song also acts as Enders’ graduate faculty advisor in BME. After graduation this spring, Enders will attend medical school in the fall.

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Sophie Carus
Sophie Carus tied for third place in the “Engineering: Health and Medicine” category. Carus’ research is title “Influence of amphiphilic polymers on corneal wound healing.” Carus is advised by Dr. Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, assistant professor, BME. Sophie will be graduating this May and will work as a scribe or clinical research manager during her gap year while also applying to Medical School.

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Rachel Teater
Rachel Teater won second place in the "Engineering: Health and Medicine" category. Her research is titled "Evaluation of Ankle Proprioception and Self-Reported Ankle Instability using a Novel, Clinically-oriented Procedure". Authors: Rachel Teater, Scott Monfort, Kim Bigelow and Dr. Ajit Chaudhari (PI). Rachel is graduating in May 2018. In the fall she will begin working in her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University researching biomechanics and wearable technology.