Current Research:

Prof. Tim Duong Laboratory

Rotation Student

  • My work focuses on monitoring and treating glaucoma.
  • Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in America and is due to a buildup of internal pressure in the eye, usually from clogging of the fluid drainage canals of the eye, which cuts off the optic nerve resulting in optic nerve degradation.
  • I am helping to investigate, using rat models, how the optic nerve degrades over time with and without high oxygen treatment to understand as a potential treatment to the disease.

Previous Research:

Prof. SiHong Wang Laboratory

Summer 2015 – Summer 2017
Research Assistant
  • Researched on using nanodiamonds as a potential bio-imaging technique due to its different fluoresce intensities at different temperatures
  • Looked at how nanodiamonds could distinguish between cancer and somatic cells using the intercellular temperature differences
  • Presented poster on nanodiamond work at BMES 2015 Tampa, FL

Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine

Summer 2016
Dr. Anthony Atala Laboratory
  • Worked on project to create a bioprintable vessel model of the Blood Brain Barrier for disease and drug modelling
  • Differentiated neuronal stem cells into cortical neurons in a bioprinted fibrin matrix to determine the feasibility of bioprinted brain tissue
  • Poster presented and abstract submitted at NCTERMS Conference

Prof. Marom Bikson’s Laboratory

Fall 2014 – Spring 2015
Research Assistant / Lab Manager
  • Researched the safety voltage per meter threshold of an electric field over a brain slice
  • Used classical electrophysiology techniques to measure the response of neurons in rat hippocampus slices to electrical fields
  • Applied signal processing concepts to filter and analyze field potential signal