Mohammed Abumuaileq
Mohammed Abumuaileq is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at Xue Han’s lab at Boston University (Han Lab). He earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2021. His research focuses on two key areas: examining the cellular effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in mouse models of epilepsy to […]
Sung Ahn
Sung is a PhD candidate in Biomedical engineering. He earned his BA in Mathematics at Harvard University. From his undergraduate years, he worked at the Choi Lab in the Bioengineering and Nanomedicine (BENMD) Program at the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging of Massachusetts General Hospital, working to improve both the design of near-infrared contrast agents […]
Jeffrey Alido
Jeffrey Alido (Tian lab) is a graduate student from ECE Department. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Carolina San Diego, 2020. He also received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jessica Anderson
Jessie Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering. Her hometown is Benton, Kentucky, and she received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Western Kentucky University in December 2017. Upon graduation, she joined Rice 360 Institute for Global Health where she performed lab and clinical research for BiliSpec, a point-of-care neonatal jaundice diagnostic tool that […]
Tushar Arora
Dora Balog
Dora Balog is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Between her undergraduate and master’s studies, she spent a summer at Rice University working with Dr. Robert Raphael, where she studied the murine vestibular system and developed […]
Jaclyn Birnbaum
Jaclyn Birnbaum (Economo Lab) received a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience with a minor in Ethics from Northeastern University in 2019. During her undergrad, she was involved in research aimed at identifying different transcriptomic cell types in the dorsal raphe nucleus, the main producer of serotonin in the brain. This project led Jaclyn in the direction […]
Nathan Blanke
Nathan Blanke (Bigio lab) became involved with research in the area of neurophotonics in Dr. Erin Purcell’s lab as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University. He began by working with light-dependent transcription factors for targeting neural regeneration, at the tissue-device interface, following implantation. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University […]
Spencer Byers
Spencer Byers (Davison Lab) graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in Neuroscience and Molecular Biology in 2016. Following Kenyon, Spencer pursued full-time research for two years at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he tested the efficacy of pro-cognitive compounds molecularly and behaviorally in rodents. At […]
Alanna Carey
Alanna Carey is a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology in the Biology Program. She is from Acton, Massachusetts, and she received her BS in Biology and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2016. Prior to starting at Boston University, she worked as a Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Beth Stevens at […]