Nina Tang awarded 2022 Presidential Fellowship

Nina (Shirley) Tang has been selected as a 2022 Presidential Fellow, the most prestigious award given by The Ohio State University Graduate School. Tang is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is advised by Dr. Devina Purmessur. Her research focuses on developing novel minimally invasive therapies for patients suffering from chronic low back pain. Tang conducts her research via engineering nanocarriers (i.e., extracellular vesicles) to deliver critical developmental transcription factors into diseased human intervertebral disc cells and revert/reprogram them to a healthy state. 

Presidential Fellowships honor the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research or terminal degree project.

Congratulations Nina!