Undergraduate Student Stories

  • Mark Atuan

    Mark Atuan

    Research; key to finding new discoveries, new treatments and cures…advancements in muscle regeneration could help injured war veterans suffering trauma in battle, regain functionality.

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  • Sonal Dugar

    Sonal Dugar

    Hope for Stroke In addition to classroom experience, I have also joined the research team that is focusing on the possible use of stem cell therapies in stroke patients. In this research project, I will have the opportunity to see whether stem cells will be able to regenerate useful motor function by performing gait analysis…

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  • Hannah Mason

    Hannah Mason

    Political Aspirations I have worked in Dr. Lohitash Karumbaiah’s lab since January 2014. Prior to beginning in this lab, I attended the weekly RBC lab meetings. Scientific research leads to progress; progress leads to a better world; therefore, scientific research leads to a better world. As this syllogism suggests, scientific research is necessary to improve…

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  • Sanam Desai

    Sanam Desai

    Changing Lives My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease and I have seen firsthand how devastating the disease can be on a person’s quality of life. Cures for diseases such as these through regenerative bioscience research could change the lives of countless individuals and their families for the better.

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  • Elizabeth Wilkins

    Elizabeth Wilkins

    regenerative bioscience…can potentially impact degenerative neurological diseases and on other impairments such as spinal cord injuries.

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  • Kimberly Straub

    Kimberly Straub

    My goal has always been to be a doctor and I know that hands on research can teach me a lot about the medical field that I am missing in just my studies for class.

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  • Natalie Bishop

    Natalie Bishop

    Fascinated by the endless wonders of science, I aspire to soak in as much knowledge as my brain allows — make discoveries even the most reputable of scientists couldn’t dream of.

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  • Schuyler Bentzel

    Schuyler Bentzel

    I’m working/volunteering in multiple types of physical therapy settings, allowing me to use what I’m learning in the lab to see what kind of implications that information may have in a clinical setting.

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  • Nicole Bisel

    Nicole Bisel

    Neurological Damage During the second semester of my freshman year of college, I took a CURO gateway seminar which introduced me to a few different lab groups interested in stem cell research. After attending Dr. Stice’s discussion of biobots in spring 2014, I became associated with the RBC and found my place in Dr. Karumbaiah’s…

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  • Cali Callaway

    Cali Callaway

    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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