Materials Science
Antimicrobial resistance is expanding at an alarming rate, becoming the greatest global challenge of the 21st century with bacteria developing resistance to some of the best antibiotics and…
Translational Medical Science
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a neurodegenerative eye disease that impacts roughly 200 million people worldwide. It occurs in the macula, which contains a dense number of photore…
Biochemistry
Metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of 12%. Mesenchymal quadruple negative breast cancer (QNBC) is a mol…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly aggressive and vascularized brain tumor with poor prognosis and limited therapeutic options. Endocan (ESM1), a tumor-associated endothelial proteogl…
Materials Science
Human skin scatters light because of collagen fibers and cellular structures. This can make it hard to utilize noninvasive imaging through skin in the medical industry. This project aimed to…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Conventional trailing-edge control surfaces introduce local surface discontinuities and abrupt camber changes, causing premature flow separation and pressure drag. This project aimed to desi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Solid tumors contain a tumor microenvironment (TME) with high levels of immunosuppressive metabolites that interfere with T cell activation. While CAR T cells are effective in blood cancers,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Impaired wound healing is a widespread complication experienced by diabetic patients, with persistent hyperglycemic conditions being a central factor that disrupts cellular repair programs.…
Animal Sciences
Planaria (Dugesia spp.) are a well-established model for studying neural regeneration due to their ability to fully reform heads and central nervous systems after decapitation. This study in…
Biomedical Engineering
Wound infections remain a major challenge in healthcare, often slowing healing, raising treatment costs, and sometimes becoming life-threatening. Most infections are detected only after visi…
Biomedical Engineering
Currently 250,000 to 390,000 Americans are estimated to live with a spinal cord injury. United Spinal Association (2025) states that the number grows by 18,000 approximately every year. That…
Translational Medical Science
Oral cancer therapeutics often fail due to drug degradation within the gastrointestinal tract before systemic absorption. This study evaluated the gastrointestinal stability of a carbon nano…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Americans use an average of 1.6 straws per day, PFAS, are present in both plastic and paper straws, contributing to the increased health issues related to microplastics and PFAS. Several stu…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fragrance products have been on the rise in popularity recently. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are toxic airborne chemicals, have shown to be most prominent in the product's ingre…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting many areas of life. Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) measures functional connectivity between brain regions a…
Biomedical Engineering
MicroMCED is designed to bring routine multicancer screenings to more people with an accessible point of care blood test. Current screening tests require expensive specialized equipment that…
Mathematics
Traffic congestion is one of the most persistent urban challenges in the United States, costing Atlanta-area commuters over 65 hours and approximately $1,164 per driver in 2024. Traffic cong…
Translational Medical Science
Anxiety is an ever-growing issue plaguing modern society as it becomes more prevalent in young adults and adolescents, particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Despite the existence…
Microbiology
Quorum Sensing (QS) is a bacterial communication pathway that mediates population-based activity such as virulence and biofilm formation. Specifically, QS affects biofilm maturation, includi…
Biomedical Engineering
This project seeks to address the global need for affordable, early screening tools for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) by engineering a low-cost, self-contained wearable glove that qua…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United States. It is frequently asymptomatic, yet can result in severe reproductive complications. Wh…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality due in part to the limitations of current diagnostic methods, which often rely on single biomarkers and fail to capture the systemic bio…
Chemistry
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising alternatives to conventional antibiotics due to their membrane-disruptive activity, but clinical translation is hindered by host cytotoxicity, poo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Atherosclerosis is a condition characterized by a buildup of plaque in the arteries. Changes in blood flow cause endothelial cells to become atheroprone (susceptible to atherosclerosis patho…
Environmental Engineering
This experiment is continuation of my earlier research evaluating the feasibility of converting waste peanut shells into value-added cellulosic materials. The objective is to extract purifie…
Materials Science
Diethylene glycol DEG contamination in medicinal syrups represents a persistent global health crisis, having caused over 300 child fatalities since 2022 alone, and occurring recently as of O…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project aims to explore the mechanisms the rabies virus uses to evade the immune system while traveling through the nervous system. We are motivated by the challenge of comprehending ho…
Animal Sciences
Microplastic pollution is an emerging environmental health threat, with polystyrene microplastics detected in water, food, and even our blood. Their toxicity arises from leachable endocrine-…
Chemistry
pH strips are widely employed for rapid and low-cost pH determination. However, their single-use design contributes significantly to global laboratory waste. Absorbent paper also results in…
Environmental Engineering
The rapid increase in agricultural production produces waste that is subject to discarding, burning, and burying, causing severe environmental harm. However, a variety of eco-friendly method…