{"id":6446,"date":"2025-09-11T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6446"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:33:23","slug":"alex-nun%cc%83ez-carrasquillo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/profile\/alex-nun%cc%83ez-carrasquillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Nun\u0303ez Carrasquillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, Alex Nun\u0303ez Carrasquillo worked in the Lahann Lab focusing on biomimetic materials, advanced polymers and particle drug delivery. He designed an underlying scaffold to be able to place proteins that can stretch to emulate how heart tissues stretch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">More about My Experience<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\nAs a student doing research for the first time, Alex learned a lot about how to conduct rsearch, collect data, and organize data in a way that is useful and accessible. <\/p>\n<p>His advice to future REUs is to have fun, enjoy the research, and not put too much pressure on yourself.<\/p>\n<p>After completing his research experience, Alex obtained his Biomedical Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h4>Learn more about Alex and his work below!<\/h4>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alex Nun\u0303ez Carrasquillo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-pLTr9uQxvo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24547,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6446\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cell-met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}