{"id":19567,"date":"2025-06-27T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19567"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:20:56","slug":"himagowri-prasad","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/profile\/himagowri-prasad\/","title":{"rendered":"Himagowri Prasad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Major \/ Minor:<\/strong> Biomedical Engineering, concentration in Nanotechnology, Minor in Chemistry<\/p>\n<p><strong> Area of Research:<\/strong> Biomedical Engineering (biomaterials)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name of Mentor:<\/strong> Dr. Timothy O&#8217;Shea<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved in research? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been involved in research since high school, working in biomedical nanomaterials laboratories every summer, and even being able to contribute to their research publications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you meet your mentor? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During my freshman spring, I cold emailed a graduate student whose research I was interested in based on a paper I had read from the lab. From there, they connected me with another graduate student whose work aligned more with my overall interests. I interviewed for my lab with my current graduate student and mentor during finals week, and began working in the lab during my sophomore fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has your UROP experience taught you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has taught me valuable wet-lab skills, and what it takes to be immersed in a career involving academia. As someone with the dream of pursuing a PhD after graduation, it has provided me an insight on my future in biomedical research.<\/p>\n<p><strong> How has this experience helped you with non-research related things at BU? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UROP has helped me gain research presentation opportunities outside of BU. In January of 2024, I was a poster presenter and plenary speaker at the Harvard College National Undergraduate Research Conference and I was just recently accepted to the Brown University National Undergraduate Research Conference as a poster presenter. My experience has also solidified my interest in biomaterials research, so I founded the BU Chapter of Society For Biomaterials this past school year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does a day in your research life look like? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Depending on my class schedule, I might go work in my lab in the mornings or afternoons (sometimes both). I do both wet-lab research and dry-lab, so if I am doing wet-lab that week, I try to work in around 6 hours a week to make sure I can complete my tasks. If it is a dry-lab week, I usually complete my work outside of the lab, and touch base with my graduate student. Once a week, I have check-in meetings with my graduate student and mentor to go over the progress I am making on my project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to someone interested in UROP?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to reach out to graduate students who work in the lab you are interested in joining! Do thorough research into different mentors, and really figure out what research field\/ projects you would like to be part of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24446,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19569,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19567\/revisions\/19569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}