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A Turning Point There was my hand. Floating in the chasm between myself and the man in front of me. I was frozen with embarrassment. I interned at Shepherd Center a week before I met my first patient. Casey, the occupational therapist under whom I worked, arranged the introduction before their therapy session. “Nigel, this…
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Be a MentorI would like to attend graduate school which will provide me with the tools I need to achieve my overall goals of helping treat neurodegenerative diseases and becoming a professor at a university to teach and mentor aspiring students.
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Without research, we as a society cannot expand and improve. A trend seen throughout history. As new scientific research becomes mainstream, society as a whole moves forward into a new cultural norm. I do not do things in half measures. Once I commit, I give it everything. If I do not know the answer, I…
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Mortensen’s research proposes delivering bone-targeted mesenchymal stem cell therapy. Using animal modeling, Mortensen will design engineered mesenchymal stem cells with the assistance of laser microscope tracking to target therapeutic sites in the bone marrow…
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Ten years ago with only a handful of researchers, the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center made a commitment to advancing regenerative medicine in the Southeast. Today, they’re answering the challenge through studies that range from traumatic brain injury to bone regeneration to the development of the first-of-its-kind swine stroke model…
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Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs), as noted by Dr. Lohitash Karumbaiah, offer significant hope to tetraplegic and paraplegic individuals. “These systems aim at helping individuals with motor disabilities by providing them the ability to control devices such as wheelchairs and computers, using their brain activity only,” said Karumbaiah…
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UGA Regenerative Bioscience members, Franklin West and Steven Stice traveled on behalf of the Jun Wu Forum to Guangxi University in Nanning China as invited guest speakers. Dedicated to Jun Wu, a celebrated scientist and educator in China and first president of Guangxi University, the forum invites distinguished scientist worldwide, and is part of an…
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