Irving Bigio
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon The focus of Irving Bigio’s Biomedical Optics Lab is the development of minimally-invasive research-oriented and clinical (both diagnostic and therapeutic) tools, based on optical technologies. Applications span the breadth of the human body. The lab’s projects include: Optical Biopsy: we develop tools to measure non-invasively the reflectance spectrum of biological […]
Characterizing Relaxin-2 as a Therapeutic Candidate for Fibrosis
Mentors Project Description Biomaterials are essential tools in biomedical research, providing physiologically relevant environments that support the study of disease mechanisms and the evaluation of therapeutic candidates including relaxin-2 in fibrotic conditions. Using the endogenous hormone relaxin-2, this project will evaluate its therapeutic potential for reducing fibrotic tissue within a uterus-mimicking environment. Throughout this project, […]
Feiyang Deng
Feiyang Dang is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Hao Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Engineering Microenvironment-triggered Self-reporting Immunotherapy (REU, 2025)
Xining Gao
Xining Gao is a graduate student in the Chen Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Optimizing a 2D Culture Device for Characterization of iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes (2022)
Mark Grinstaff
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Dr. Mark Grinstaff is a professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Chemistry (CHEM), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and Medicine (MED) at Boston University. He is also the Director of the NIH T32 Program in Translational Research in Biomaterials (TRB) and the Nanotechnology Innovation Center (BUnano) at Boston University. The Grinstaff Group studies polymers, biomaterials, nanomaterials, […]
Population Responses of Living Neural Networks to Periodic Drive
Mentors Project Description The hippocampal formation (HF) in mammals is responsible for collecting information about the sensory world and, if appropriate, storing that information as memories, to be offloaded to other brain structures later. The HF has a number of notable response properties, including nested, quasi-periodic activity. In this project, the student will work with […]