{"id":6990,"date":"2024-09-25T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:57:21","slug":"genevieve-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2024\/09\/25\/genevieve-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Genevieve Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/05\/20240801_REU-Lab-Headshots-Genevieve-002-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in San Antonio, Texas, Genevieve Vega discovered her passion for biomedical engineering doing medical research in high school. She is now a sophomore studying BME at the University of Texas at San Antonio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summer, Genevieve worked on \u201cAssessment of culture substrate functionalization in an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inducible border zone culture platform\u201d in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab under PI Christopher Chen. The project focused on understanding communications between border zone cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts; and improving upon the integration of cardiomyocytes engraftments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genevieve is interested in pursuing an MS in Biomedical Forensics, and is considering the BUSM MS program in Biomedical Forensic Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in San Antonio, Texas, Genevieve Vega discovered her passion for biomedical engineering doing medical research in high school. She is now a sophomore studying BME at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This summer, Genevieve worked on \u201cAssessment of culture substrate functionalization in an inducible border zone culture platform\u201d in the Tissue Microfabrication [&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\/6990"}],"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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9265,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/9265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}