Continuous Monitoring Redox Nanosensors: The Next Step in Understanding Cancer Student: Christopher Kakidas Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Heather Clark Abstract The American public has been bombarded by commercials touting the positive effects of antioxidants...
Computationally Guided Protein-Specific Labeling with Nanoparticles Student: Heather Brodkin Department: Chemistry Advisor: Mary Jo Ondrechen Abstract The Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) fellowship provides an excellent opportunity to combine our experimental and...
Computationally Guided Ligand Design for the Human Adenosine A2A Receptor for Nanoparticle Imaging of Hypoxic Tumors Student: Joslynn Lee Department: Chemistry Advisor: Mary Jo Ondrechen
Combination Anticancer Nanopreparations of Novel Proapoptotic Drugs, TRAIL Ligand and siRNA Student: Bobby Riehle Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Vladimir Torchilin Abstract Cancer cells are known to use multiple pathways and mechanisms to promote survival...
Collagen Single Fibril Mechanochemistry Student: Brendan Flynn Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Ruberti Abstract Mechanical strain has been show to effect the enzymatic degradation of collagen. Single collagen fibrils are the fundamental...
Student: Sucharita Saha Department: Biology Advisor: Donald O’Malley Abstract The purpose of this project is to design a nanowire interface to study the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. The long term goal...