Eight from Hopkins BME receive Provost Undergraduate Research Awards

A total of eight undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins have been selected to receive the 2026 Provost Undergraduate Research Award (PURA).

Established in 1993, PURA supports undergraduates as they pursue independent research, design, entrepreneurship, scholarly, and creative projects over the academic year. With the help of a $3,000 fellowship, PURA recipients conceive and drive projects under the guidance of a mentor from any Hopkins division, center, or institute.

This year’s recipients from BME include:

Ethan Bai – Revealing the 3D Structural Dynamics of Multi-chamber ARVC Cardiac Organoids using Optical Coherence Tomography

Claire Deng – Functional Characterization of Genes Implicated in Retinal Ganglion Cell Regeneration in a Zebrafish Model of Glaucoma

Sandhya Ganesh – Discovering Relation Between Cryoablation Procedure Parameters and Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation Patients

Kenzi Griffith – Effects of noninvasive ultrasound neuromodulation on blood pressure

Sara Kaufman – Cardiac Differentiation from Improved Blastomere-Like Stem Cells

Aarushi Pant – Characterizing Impacts of Genetic Risk Factors for Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease on the Blood-Brain Barrier in vitro

Florin Selaru – 3D Mapping and Analysis of Developing Nervous Systems across Vertebrate Species

Daniel Yao – Characterizing active sampling estimators for recall evaluation of classification models