{"id":6963,"date":"2024-09-25T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:58:46","slug":"victor-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/25\/victor-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240731_REU-Lab-Headshots-Victor-002-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Perez is a sophomore studying Biomedical Engineering at the University at Buffalo. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His interest in engineering began at a young age, as he had several family members who needed prosthetic medical devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Victor got the chance to further explore his interest while working on a soft robotic device designed to improve early diagnosis of lung cancer. Victor worked on this project, \u201cSimulation of the Lung Environment for Validation of Soft Robot Bronchoscopy,\u201d as part of the Material Robotics lab until PI Sheila Russo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor is interested in applying to medical school after finishing his bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Perez is a sophomore studying Biomedical Engineering at the University at Buffalo. His interest in engineering began at a young age, as he had several family members who needed prosthetic medical devices.\u00a0 This summer, Victor got the chance to further explore his interest while working on a soft robotic device designed to improve early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}