Spotlight on Students
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Formed in 2011, the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine research center, known as REM, represents a collaborative effort among Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and UGA’s Regenerative Bioscience Center. The 2025 Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM) retreat was held at Emory University on May 16, drawing more than 140 attendees from across Georgia’s major…
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Christina is a Neuroscience Ph.D Student in the Roberts-Galbraith Lab. Her current research focuses on understanding how neuropeptides influence stem cell function and regeneration utilizing an animal capable of robust regeneration called the planarian. Christina was awarded the ARCS scholarship after submitting a two-phase application. The first phase consisted of two letters of recommendation, a…
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Earlier this year Yaochao Zheng was awarded a UGA Communication Scholarship and Grant. This funding has allowed him to recruit undergraduates from both RB and non-RB backgrounds to develop a podcast series introducing foundational topics in regenerative bioscience (RB) to a broader audience. The first podcast series, now available on mainstream platforms like Spotify (Link…
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Madelyn G. Richter, (RBC Peroni Lab) worked to improve her understanding of veterinary medicine on a global scale. As expressed by Madelyn, “In Peru, I participated in a veterinary internship, where our team provided veterinary care to communities that otherwise lack access to veterinary services. This experience taught me the importance of adaptability and the…
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We are proud to announce that RBC graduate student Amin Davarzani has received the Shuker Scientific Poster Award during the recent GeorgiaBio Summit! He continues to thank his RBC faculty mentors, Dr. Lohitash Karumbaiah and Dr. Leidong Mao, and in his words, “the amazing team at Georgia Bio, Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), Georgia Research Alliance…
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Nathan is a fourth year doctoral student in the Karumbaiah lab and started out in Summer 2021. His doctoral thesis work stands at an interdisciplinary crossroad, featuring and adapting, fundamentals from Neuroscience, Immunology, Glycobiology and Glycomaterials. His thesis work focuses on developing ‘Immunotherapeutic glycomaterials for severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) repair and regeneration’ in a…
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Moira is a second year Regenerative Bioscience Ph.D student in the Kaiser Lab studying traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery mechanisms in a pediatric porcine pre-clinical translational model. Specifically, her research focuses on delineating the neural network recovery mechanisms and influence of sexually dimorphic neuroanatomy and development on cognitive, behavioral, and motor function outcomes following TBI.…
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CMaT recently held its annual summit from August 7-9, 2024, at the University of Georgia, where over 100 attendees gathered from CMaT partner universities, CMaT international partners, CMaT industry members, and CMaT advisory boards. CMaT trainees from each research test-bed shared CMaT research advances during oral research presentations.Thursday and Friday’s activities included additional trainee research…
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Kendall Clay was recently awarded an F31 Grant! Kendall is a Neuroscience Ph.D candidate in the Roberts-Galbraith Lab studying the genetic mechanisms underlying the regeneration and maintenance of dopaminergic neurons in the planarian brain. During her research, she has found two candidate genes that cause a reduction in dopaminergic neurons when knocked down, one of…
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