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Undergraduate researcher, Tiffany Conklin was selected as a part of the 2020 University Scholars Program. This prestigious award is given to 200 undergraduate students across all disciplines at UF. Those selected are paired with faculty mentors to complete a research project throughout the year. Students who receive the award are expected to present at the […]

In February, Dr. Sharma and several members of the lab attended the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ. While at the meeting, Tolulope Ajayi gave a podium presentation entitled “Modeling Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis Through NonInvasive ACL Rupture in Rats.” This project was completed by lab alumni Shannon Brown in collaboration with lab members […]

In January 2020, Dr. Sharma was awarded the Pruitt Family Endowed Faculty Fellowship along with colleagues Dr. Edward Phelps and Dr. Parisa Rashidi. This fellowship was established to recognize junior faculty for excellence in teaching and research as evidenced by teaching evaluations, research mentorship, and external research recognitions. A big congratulations to Dr. Sharma for […]

In January 2020, Dr. Sharma was recognized in the University of Florida Health Cancer Center Connection Member Newsletter. She spoke on the cross-section of cancer and osteoarthritis research currently being done in the Sharma Lab. You can check out her interview with the newsletter here: https://connection.cancer.ufl.edu/2019/12/02/member-highlight-dec-jan-19-20/

The Biomedical Engineering Society held its annual meeting this year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sharma was a track chair for “Translational Biomedical Engineering” in the meeting this year. She caught up with our former post-doc, Dr. Isaac Adjei, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering program at Texas A&M University! […]

The Sharma Lab bids farewell to Shannon Brown (post-doctoral fellow)! Shannon will be working as the VP of Research at 42Bio (Alachua, Florida). This is a local biotech start-up that “develops novel and unique technologies that address existing barriers to research and clinical translation in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine”. Congratulations to Shannon and we […]

Congratulations to Shannon Brown, Sharma Lab’s very first PhD candidate, for graduating in the Summer 2019 commencement! Thank you for all of your hard work in the Sharma Lab! Shannon will continue as a post-doctoral fellow in the Sharma Lab as she explores her career options!

This summer, the Sharma lab welcomed a high school student, Diya Jayram, to get first hand experience in an academic research setting. She was a participant in the UF’s Student Science Training Program (SSTP) class of 2019. According to the SSTP website, “the UF SSTP creates an environment that promotes the academic and personal growth […]

The Sharma Lab bids farewell to Isaac Adjei (post-doctoral fellow), Olivia (senior undergraduate student) and Diya (SSTP high-school student)! Isaac will be moving onto a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University (Houston, Texas). Olivia will be completing her last semester of a Bachelors of Science degree in […]

The Sharma lab celebrates the end of yet another successful semester with a get-together at Dr. Sharma’s house! The lab also says farewell to our wonderful post-doc Dr. Isaac Adjei as he leaves UF for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University! He will be truly missed […]