Summer Undergraduate Project List

Provost URI Fellowship Awardees

Thinuri Fernando
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Maciej Skotak, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The relationship between the reflected and transmitted pressure in a simplified geometry model: a parametric experimental study

Swata Gade
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Namas Chandra, Venkata Kakulavarapu, Department of Biomedical EngineeringProject: Therapeutic Efficacy of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Supriya Iyer
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Maciej Skotak, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: The relationship between the reflected and transmitted pressure in a simplified geometry model: a parametric experimental study

Navya Pendyala
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Namas Chandra, Venkata Kakulavarapu, Department of Biomedical Engineering Project: Central Auditory Pathology in Blast Induced Tinnitus/Hearing Loss

Rahul Shah
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Molly Townsend, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Evaluating the Effect of Skull and Brain Stiffness on Shock Wave Propagation in a Rodent Finite Element Model

Geetasravya Vegunta
Major: Biology
Faculty Adviser: Madhuvika Murugan, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering Project: Measuring the dynamic properties of microglial cells after blast induced traumatic brain injury

Rashmi Venkatarama
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Adviser: Venkatesan Perumal, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Minocycline Loaded Albumin Nanoparticle (myn-ANP) Synthesis and Characterization: Potential Nanomedicine Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury by Targeting Microglial Cells Activation

Honors College Awardees

Manisha Kannan 
Major: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Venkatesan Perumal, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Project: Apocynin loaded albumin nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation in in vivo TBI model.

Chandni Patel 
Major Biology
Faculty Advisor: Venkata RamaRao Kakulavarapu, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering 
Project: Changes in Synaptic and Axonal Proteins as a Function of Time in Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury

Zenit Winfield 
Major: Biomedical Engineering 
Faculty Advisor: Maciej Skotak, Namas Chandra, Department of Biomedical Engineering 
Project: Rodent to human scaling laws: The evaluation of biofidelic materials for the rat head model under shock wave loading