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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Happy holidays from the Sharma Lab! [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”7″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”[Show slideshow]” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

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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

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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”

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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

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