Author: Brown,Shannon B

Dr. Blanka Sharma and her collaborators Dr. Kyle Allen, BME associate professor, and Dr. Wendy Liu, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, were recently awarded an R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health. This grant seeks to investigate a multi-modal approach to osteoarthritis therapies. Osteoarthritis, a complex disease that involves the destruction of…

Congratulations to Olivia Lanseth, an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab, for her recent acceptance to the NSF- and Intel-supported Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Sciences (S.U.R.E.) program. According to their website, “SURE is a 10-week summer research program designed to attract qualified under-represented minority and women students into graduate school in the fields of engineering…

This evening, three members of the Sharma Lab were elected to officer roles in the Florida Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the nation’s second oldest engineering honor society. Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to, according to their mission statement, mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor…

This evening, undergraduate Sharma Lab researcher Olivia Liseth presented her work at the Undergraduate Research Seminar. This symposium hosted students form across UF, representing a variety of disciplines. Olivia discussed her research on Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), its role in osteoarthritis, and manganese dioxide as a potential scavenging agent to ameliorate the effects of ROS…

This Saturday, April 14, 2018, Shreedevi Kumar will be delivering an oral presentation at the annual Society for Biomaterials conference in Atlanta, GA! Join her at 11am in the Nanomaterials section (room 204/205) for her talk, “Manganese dioxide nanoparticles protect cytokine-challenged cartilage from oxidative stress.”  

The Sharma Lab got together today to support the Alachua County Humane Society by participating in their Chipolte fundraiser! For the fundraiser, 50% of the proceeds went the Humane Society.

Congratulations to Jessica Hornyak, an undergraduate Sharma Lab member, for becoming a 2018-2019 University Scholar! University Scholars is a competitive program that funds a research project for undergraduate students. In this program, scholars work one-on-one with UF faculty, and are introduced to the exciting world of academic research. The award includes a $1,750 scholarship and scholars…

Olivia Liseth, an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab, presented her research on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! This annual symposium allows undergraduate students from all disciplines across UF to present their research projects. This year, Olivia presented a poster of her work that she conducted as a University Scholar, titled…

Shreedevi Kumar, a first year PhD student in the Sharma Lab, presented her work at the 7th Annual UF Biomaterials Day on February 23rd, 2018. The theme of this year’s Biomaterials Day was “Breaking Barriers in Biomaterials Research.” Shree’s work titled “Manganese dioxide nanoparticles protect cytokine-challenged cartilage from oxidative stress” was one of six student…

The Sharma Lab celebrates the end of 2017 with our BME Family at the annual Holiday Celebration.     Jahnelle and Shree take home gold in the Christmas card game – the first one to move the card to hang on the side of the table without using their hands win. Shannon and Madison participate…