Kiara Chambers
Kiara Chambers worked in the Forrest Lab focusing on organic vapor jet printing, which is a developing technique used to deposit cells more precisely for the benefit of restoring heart tissue.
Tiffany Cole
In 2021, Tiffany Cole worked in the Bishop Lab. She studied cell substrate interactions to see if they can monitor or change the behaviors of cardiomyocytes to later turn into a cardiac patch. Learn more about Tiffany and her work below!
Christian Cox
In the summer of 2022, Christian Cox participated in Dr. Darryl Dickerson’s Lab. During this time he assisted in tensile and indention testing of heart tissue. He also learned excel add-on “GCODE” to research and designate parameters for the lab’s 3D electro writing printer to ensure computer designs and actual prints are the same dimensions. […]
Deidre Crockett
In the summer of 2022, Deidre participated in the Baker lab with mentor Samuel J. DePalma. She verified the viability and reliability of a new macro-scale 3D in vitro heart tissue model∙
Rafaela Frota
In 2019, Rafaela worked across the Chen Lab and Eyckmans Lab focusing on better understanding Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a heart condition affecting up to 500,000 in the United States and contributing to a leading cause of sudden death.
Diana Garcia
As an REU student in the Helms’ Lab, Diana investigated the role of desmoplakin protein (a protein responsible for providing stability to tissues) and the desmosome on desmoplakin cardiomyopathy.
Anwar Haloui
In 2022, Anwar Haloui worked in the Bishop lab with graduate student mentor, Noelle Pierce. He worked on patterning cardiomyocytes on a 2-D layer of gold. More specifically, he designed and manufactured templets for the cardiomyocytes to assess adhesion to edges and filets. Hear more about Anwar’s summer experience!
Lea Hebert
Lea worked in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab under PI Christopher Chen on post-heart attack healing of the heart through engraftments. The topic of her project was “Characterization of Cardiomyocyte Integration within an In Vitro Engraftment Platform”. Learn more about Lea and her work below!
Gabriel Hubbard
Under the supervision of Helen Fawcett, Gabriel Hubbard worked with Jourdan Watson on building and programming a robotic hand. In addition using his knowledge of electrical engineering and circuitry to build the robotic hand, Gabriel helped developed robotic hand-focused curriculum for use in middle and high school classrooms. Learn more about Gabriel and his work […]
Akhila Johny
Akhila worked in the Chen Lab controlling mass transport in organ-on-a-chip devices. She created a profusion system to feed media or nutrients to the cells in the device over a longer period of time. Learn more about Akhila’s REU experience below!