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15 from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

June 9, 2025

A total of 15 undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering received the 2025 Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to assist with independent research, scholarly and creative projects over the summer.

This year’s recipients from BME include:

Tarini Basireddy – Studying the formation of dual-species Candida auris and Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms in clinically relevant conditions

Nyasia Brown – Tracing the Origins of Cerebellar Granule Cells: A Transcriptomic Analysis

Brandon Chang – Delivery Optimization for CAR-NK Cell Engineering

Alp Demirtas – Simulating Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability as a Preventative Method for Predicting Neurovascular Dysfunction and Risk Factor Propagation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Matthew John Farah – Harnessing Neuron-Specific Mechanisms of Autophagy as a Novel Therapeutic Intervention for Parkinson disease

Aditya Kondepudi – Enhancing Noninvasive Cerebral Blood Flow Imaging with Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Using Artificial Neural Networks

Sareena Naganand – Flavonoid Lipid Nanoparticles for Improved Transfection of Pancreatic Beta Cells Toward Targeted Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

Sampath Rapuri – Clinical Validation of a Wearable Sensor for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring

Giuliana Sardi Rogines – Investigating the Role of NLRX1 in Oligodendrocyte Death and Myelin Loss in the Cuprizone Model of Demyelination

Arihant Singh – Investigating the Role of NLRX1 in Mitigating Neurodegeneration via Regulation of Inflammatory Astrocytes in Experimental Models of Multiple Sclerosis

Sakshi Singhal – Investigating the role of Hematocrit in Variability of Cerebrovascular Reactivity (CVR) measured by Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

Shreya Tiwari – Investigating whether overexpression of miR-22, miR-26a-1, miR-29a, miR-29c, and miR-378c promotes cell cycle exit and metabolic maturation of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes in vitro

Nancy (Shuyi) Yan – Elucidating YY1’s Transcriptional and Chromatin-Modulatory Roles in iPSC-CM Maturation

Brendon Young – Exploring the Role of the Cerebellum in Tongue Movements

Alice Yu – Determining the impact of social determinants of health on outcomes in anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis

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