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The University of Florida Health Cancer Center has selected Dr. Blanka Sharma as one of three researchers to receive 2022 Shared Resource Pilot and Exploratory Study Awards. These projects are designed to collect preliminary data required to test novel ideas with the goal of creating innovative methodologies or strategies to use shared resources at the […]

Congratulations to Khushboo Undavia and Lei Wang, Master’s students, and Olivia Liseth and Ryan Jungels, undergraduate students for graduating in the Spring 2019 commencement! Thank you for all of your hard work in the Sharma Lab!

Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) is the premier international organization for scientists and healthcare professionals focused on the prevention and treatment of osteoarthritis and typically switches its annual world congress meeting location between Europe and North America on a yearly basis. This year, OARSI conducted its annual world congress meeting in Toronto, Canada between May […]

The Sharma lab celebrates the end of yet another successful semester with lunch at Blue Gill!

Congratulations to Olivia, a senior undergraduate BME student in the Sharma lab, for earning the “Attributions of a Gator Engineer” award for Professional Excellence!  Considered to possess the greatest distinction of any student award given to Gator Engineers by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering Community. Olivia was nominated for her professional excellence, described […]

Congratulations to Shreedevi Kumar, a former doctoral student and now a doctoral candidate, for passing her qualifying exam this Friday, April 19!

Congratulations to Olivia Liseth, who successfully presented her undergraduate honor’s thesis on Monday, April 16th 2019! The title of her defense was “Investigating the Therapeutic Potential of Secretomes from Adipose-Derived Stem Cells on Cytokine-Challenged Cartilage Explants” and reflected her work conducted as an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab. Olivia has been a member of […]

Isaac Adjei, a post-doctoral fellow in the Sharma Lab, presented his work at the 8th Annual UF Biomaterials Day Research Symposium on March 18th, 2019. The theme of this year’s Biomaterials Day was “Celebrating Biomaterials InvestiGATORS.” Isaac’s work titled “Nanoparticle-mediated knockdown of TGFBR2 improves Natural Killer cell cytotoxicity” was one of six student abstracts selected […]

Dr. Sharma was recently named a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, one of the NSF’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty. According to Dawn Tilbury, the head of the NSF’s Engineering directorate, “With NSF CAREER awards, junior STEM faculty have the opportunity to tackle important and unique research challenges and […]

This February, undergraduate Sharma Lab researcher Jessica Hornyak presented her work at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC) at the University of North Florida. According to the FURC organizers, “FURC is one of the nation’s largest multi-disciplinary research conferences. It is an annual event open to all undergraduate researchers in the state of Florida to present […]