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Congratulations to Phoebe Nimocks, who successfully defended her undergraduate honor’s thesis on Monday, November 26, 2018! The title of her defense was “Engineering Three-Dimensional PEG-Based Models to Study Natural Killer Cell Migration” and reflected her work conducted as an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab. Phoebe has been a member of the Sharma lab since…

The Biomedical Engineering Society celebrated it’s 50th anniversary at the annual meeting this year in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten Sharma Lab members traveled to Atlanta to participate in the conference. Together, the Sharma Lab delivered three podium presentations and three poster presentations, gathered for a lab dinner, and explored Atlanta and the Georgia Aquarium.  ” order_by=”sortorder”…

Research conducted by Drs. Allen and Sharma was highlighted in a recent issue of the CrossLink magazine. This research, conducted in collaboration with the UF Veterinary Medicine program and Dr. Adam Biedrzycki, a veterinary surgeon, gives insight into orthopaedic diseases and potential therapeutic and diagnostic tools. To read the full magazine issue, click here. The…

Congratulations to Dr. Isaac Adjei, a post doc in the Sharma lab, for his recent recognition by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! He was awarded the BMES Career Development award which supports his travel to the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, including a complimentary registration and a travel stipend. This award supports BME…

This summer, the Sharma lab welcomed two high school students to get first hand experience in an academic research setting. These students, Saagar Patel and Kelly Tran, are participants in the UF’s Student Science Training Program (SSTP) class of 2018. According to the SSTP website, “the UF SSTP creates an environment that promotes the academic…

Congratulations to Sharma Lab PhD student Jahnelle Jordan, who recently was elected to be the Philanthropy Chair of the BME Graduate Student Council (BME GSC) officer team. In the past semester, the Philanthropy Chair position was voted in as a new officer position in the BME GSC officer board. As the Philanthropy Chair, Jahnelle will…

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…