Author: Kumar,Shreedevi

The Biomedical Engineering Society held its annual meeting this year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sharma was a track chair for “Translational Biomedical Engineering” in the meeting this year. She caught up with our former post-doc, Dr. Isaac Adjei, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering program at Texas A&M University!…

The Sharma Lab bids farewell to Shannon Brown (post-doctoral fellow)! Shannon will be working as the VP of Research at 42Bio (Alachua, Florida). This is a local biotech start-up that “develops novel and unique technologies that address existing barriers to research and clinical translation in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine”. Congratulations to Shannon and we…

Congratulations to Shannon Brown, Sharma Lab’s very first PhD candidate, for graduating in the Summer 2019 commencement! Thank you for all of your hard work in the Sharma Lab! Shannon will continue as a post-doctoral fellow in the Sharma Lab as she explores her career options!

This summer, the Sharma lab welcomed a high school student, Diya Jayram, to get first hand experience in an academic research setting. She was a participant in the UF’s Student Science Training Program (SSTP) class of 2019. According to the SSTP website, “the UF SSTP creates an environment that promotes the academic and personal growth…

The Sharma Lab bids farewell to Isaac Adjei (post-doctoral fellow), Olivia (senior undergraduate student) and Diya (SSTP high-school student)! Isaac will be moving onto a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University (Houston, Texas). Olivia will be completing her last semester of a Bachelors of Science degree in…

The Sharma lab celebrates the end of yet another successful semester with a get-together at Dr. Sharma’s house! The lab also says farewell to our wonderful post-doc Dr. Isaac Adjei as he leaves UF for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University! He will be truly missed…

Congratulations to both Jessica Hornyak and Olivia Liseth, undergraduate researchers in the Sharma Lab, for their acceptances to REU programs this summer! Jessica has been accepted to the University of Connecticut Entrepreneurship REU. This program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). According to their site, this REU Site program “will engage undergraduate students…

Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Brown! Shannon successfully defended her thesis on “Advancing Targeted Intra-Articular Drug Delivery Systems: Understanding and Controlling Nanoparticle Biodistribution within Osteoarthritic Joints”. Shannon is the first student to defend her thesis from our lab and she did a amazing job!

Congratulations to Khushboo Undavia and Lei Wang, Master’s students, and Olivia Liseth and Ryan Jungels, undergraduate students for graduating in the Spring 2019 commencement! Thank you for all of your hard work in the Sharma Lab!

Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) is the premier international organization for scientists and healthcare professionals focused on the prevention and treatment of osteoarthritis and typically switches its annual world congress meeting location between Europe and North America on a yearly basis. This year, OARSI conducted its annual world congress meeting in Toronto, Canada between May…