Congratulations to Gabby Grifno on Winning “Best Presentation” at the QBP/TRB/SB2 Graduate Research Symposium!
Please join us in congratulating CMTM trainee Gabby Grifno in receiving the prestigious Best Presentation award at the 2023 QBP/TRB/SB2 Graduate Research Symposium for her talk entitled “Probing Real-Time Aerosol Deposition at the Single Droplet Level in Functional Alveoli.”
Gabby is a PhD student the Nia Lab, which conducts research at the interface of physical sciences and molecular biology to answer key questions in cancer and pulmonary pathologies such as pneumonia, fibrosis, and COPD. The lab develops and utilizes sophisticated models of disease in multiple scales (whole organ to single cell), and in multiple settings (in vivo, ex vivo, in vitro, and in silico). Specifically, Gabby has been working with her PI and colleagues to develop a Crystal Ribcage that can track single cancer cells in real-time and in a functioning lung, utilizing the mechanobiology and mechano-immunity of the lung to prevent or reduce the rate of metastasis in lung cancer cells. Gabby is also one of this year’s CMTM Trainee Leaders, helping plan and enact academic and social events for the Center.
The QBP/TRB/SB2 Graduate Research Symposium is in its twentieth year and is an annual symposium presented by the Quantitative Biology and Physiology, Translational Research in Biomaterials, and Synthetic Biology & Biotechnology training programs at Boston University. This year’s symposium featured keynote speaker Paula Therese Hammond, PhD, Institute Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering in the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who presented “Electrostatic Designer Nanocarriers for Targeted Therapies.” Click on the links above to learn more about these three incredible graduate training programs housed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, NanoCenter, and Biological Design Center in BU’s College of Engineering.
Congratulations again on this achievement, Gabby!