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After spending the last year completing the tenure process, Dr. Sharma officially received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in June 2020. The long tenure process requires a recommendation by the department, review by the Board of Trustees, and approval from the Dean. Congratulations to Dr. Sharma for reaching this milestone! The Sharma lab will […]

Amidst the work from home mandate, Tolu was able to give her qualifying exam presentation over Zoom in May 2020. Her presentation was titled “Application of Imaging Techniques and Animal Models to Advance Nanoparticle Technologies for Osteoarthritis.” Having just completed her 2nd year as a PhD student, Tolu has continued her research using the NIKI […]

Congratulations to Shree Kumar for receiving the 2020-2021 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship Award. Having been a part of Tau Beta Pi since 2017, Shree has enjoyed the opportunity to mentor junior engineering students. She has served as Vice President of Electees for four semesters and Vice President for two semesters. Tau Beta Pi is an […]

In May 2020, Dr. Sharma was named as the recipient of the Pramod Khargonekar Junior Faculty Award of Excellence! The award is given by the College Tenure and Promotion Committee and recognizes a tenure candidate who best reflects leadership attributes exhibited by the former UF Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Khargonekar. For more […]

Jessica Hornyak, a long time member of the Sharma lab, successfully completed her bachelors degree and graduated in Spring 2020. During her time in the Sharma lab, Jessica worked with Dr. Shannon Brown on the further development of a Non-Invasive Knee Injury (NIKI) device. She assisted Dr. Brown in modifying the device to develop a […]

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 […]

Congratulations to both Jessica Hornyak and Olivia Liseth, undergraduate researchers in the Sharma Lab, for their acceptances to REU programs this summer! Jessica has been accepted to the University of Connecticut Entrepreneurship REU. This program is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). According to their site, this REU Site program “will engage undergraduate students […]

Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Brown! Shannon successfully defended her thesis on “Advancing Targeted Intra-Articular Drug Delivery Systems: Understanding and Controlling Nanoparticle Biodistribution within Osteoarthritic Joints”. Shannon is the first student to defend her thesis from our lab and she did a amazing job!

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 […]