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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 […]

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Congratulations to Phoebe Nimocks, who successfully defended her undergraduate honor’s thesis on Monday, November 26, 2018! The title of her defense was “Engineering Three-Dimensional PEG-Based Models to Study Natural Killer Cell Migration” and reflected her work conducted as an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab. Phoebe has been a member of the Sharma lab since […]

The Biomedical Engineering Society celebrated it’s 50th anniversary at the annual meeting this year in Atlanta, Georgia. Ten Sharma Lab members traveled to Atlanta to participate in the conference. Together, the Sharma Lab delivered three podium presentations and three poster presentations, gathered for a lab dinner, and explored Atlanta and the Georgia Aquarium.  [ngg_images source=”galleries” […]

Research conducted by Drs. Allen and Sharma was highlighted in a recent issue of the CrossLink magazine. This research, conducted in collaboration with the UF Veterinary Medicine program and Dr. Adam Biedrzycki, a veterinary surgeon, gives insight into orthopaedic diseases and potential therapeutic and diagnostic tools. To read the full magazine issue, click here. The […]

Congratulations to Dr. Isaac Adjei, a post doc in the Sharma lab, for his recent recognition by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! He was awarded the BMES Career Development award which supports his travel to the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, including a complimentary registration and a travel stipend. This award supports BME […]

This summer, the Sharma lab welcomed two high school students to get first hand experience in an academic research setting. These students, Saagar Patel and Kelly Tran, are participants in the UF’s Student Science Training Program (SSTP) class of 2018. According to the SSTP website, “the UF SSTP creates an environment that promotes the academic […]

Congratulations to Sharma Lab PhD student Jahnelle Jordan, who recently was elected to be the Philanthropy Chair of the BME Graduate Student Council (BME GSC) officer team. In the past semester, the Philanthropy Chair position was voted in as a new officer position in the BME GSC officer board. As the Philanthropy Chair, Jahnelle will […]

Dr. Blanka Sharma and her collaborators Dr. Kyle Allen, BME associate professor, and Dr. Wendy Liu, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, were recently awarded an R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health. This grant seeks to investigate a multi-modal approach to osteoarthritis therapies. Osteoarthritis, a complex disease that involves the destruction of […]

Congratulations to Olivia Lanseth, an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab, for her recent acceptance to the NSF- and Intel-supported Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Sciences (S.U.R.E.) program. According to their website, “SURE is a 10-week summer research program designed to attract qualified under-represented minority and women students into graduate school in the fields of engineering […]

This evening, three members of the Sharma Lab were elected to officer roles in the Florida Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the nation’s second oldest engineering honor society. Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to, according to their mission statement, mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor […]

This evening, undergraduate Sharma Lab researcher Olivia Liseth presented her work at the Undergraduate Research Seminar. This symposium hosted students form across UF, representing a variety of disciplines. Olivia discussed her research on Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), its role in osteoarthritis, and manganese dioxide as a potential scavenging agent to ameliorate the effects of ROS […]

This Saturday, April 14, 2018, Shreedevi Kumar will be delivering an oral presentation at the annual Society for Biomaterials conference in Atlanta, GA! Join her at 11am in the Nanomaterials section (room 204/205) for her talk, “Manganese dioxide nanoparticles protect cytokine-challenged cartilage from oxidative stress.”  

The Sharma Lab got together today to support the Alachua County Humane Society by participating in their Chipolte fundraiser! For the fundraiser, 50% of the proceeds went the Humane Society.

Congratulations to Jessica Hornyak, an undergraduate Sharma Lab member, for becoming a 2018-2019 University Scholar! University Scholars is a competitive program that funds a research project for undergraduate students. In this program, scholars work one-on-one with UF faculty, and are introduced to the exciting world of academic research. The award includes a $1,750 scholarship and scholars […]