The NIBIB-sponsored Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP) is for undergraduate biomedical engineering students who have completed their junior year of college. The 10-week program, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Lutz, BESIP Program Director, allows rising senior bioengineering students to participate in cutting-edge biomedical research projects under the mentorship of world-class scientists in NIH laboratories in Bethesda, MD.
Automation of radioactive cell labeling using microfluidic acoustophoresis
Intern Name: Emma Stevenson
Design and build an improved time-of-flight PET photodetector device
Use of MRI for Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences
BETA Intern Name: Yem Nguimbous
Augmented Reality Interactive Enhancements for Scientific Data Visualization and Manipulation
Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Exoskeleton-Mediated Gait Training in Children
Intern Name: Elizabeth Barski
Use of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and mathematical modeling to understand the mechanobiology of cells and tissue
Intern Name: Adia Drayton
BETA Intern Name: Ike Keku
Evaluating brain activity during functional tasks using noninvasive neuroimaging in healthy individuals and individuals with cerebral palsy
Biofabrication of engineered 3D tissues for disease modeling and drug discovery
Intern Name: Nolan Murphy-Genao
The molecular and cellular effects of Therapeutic and Focused Ultrasound on tissue microenvironment
Intern Name: Rohey Colley
Self-Collection Homebased Biosensor for Monitoring and Tracking Suspected COVID-19 Patients
Intern Name: Varun Gunda
Optimization of Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Animation of Human Tumor-bearing Liver Segments
BETA Intern Name: Joseph Editone III
Atomic Force Microscopy and Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein and Lipid Rafts
Intern Name: Olivia Ernst
Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Predict Subcellular Locations of Proteins
Intern Name: Ryan Hsu
Ultrafast laser microscopy to study proteins and DNA. Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging: Approaches and Applications
Intern Name: Adam Zuchowski
Genetic Engineering of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells with CRISPR-Cas9: The Role of Innate Immunity
Characterizing Spontaneous Movements During Early Development of Mice
Uncertainty characterization and propagation for emerging Nuclear Medicine targeted therapy
Programming and advanced data analytic techniques in magnetoencephalography imaging
Magnetic Resonance Angiography to Assess Sickle Cell Disease Mediated Carotid and Cerebral Artery Damage
BETA Intern Name: Kingsley Garrett
BETA Intern Name: Jarrod Burns
Use of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and mathematical modeling to understand the mechanobiology of cells and tissues
Microfabricated PDMS Vessel Mimetics for Cancer Cell Culture
Intern Name: Aasim Hawa
Role of innate immunity in medical device implantation and regenerative therapeutics
Intern Name: Paige Rudy
Deciphering the chemo-mechanical properties of myosin-6 using scattering and fluorescence single molecule techniques
Video Monitoring System for Automated Detection of Pain- and Itch- Related Behaviors in Mice
Deep learning to analyze anasarca in patients with major organ failure or cancer
Project #1 – Identifying Bone Metastasis in CT scans
Project #2 - Quantification of Renal Structural Findings on CT/MRI
Imaging Biomarkers for Diabetes Medications
Measure the viscoelastic properties of zerbafish brain using frequency optical tweezers to understand how the micro -mechanical properties of tissue affect metastatic tumor outgrowth
Cancer Studies Using a Novel 3D Printed Zebrafish Intubation Chamber for Longitudinal Imaging
Targeting Eph Tyrosine Kinase Receptors in Colorectal Cancer
Intern Name: Kevin Gery
Study of the contribution of endothelial cells to adult hematopoiesis
BETA Intern Name: Madeline Giner
Development of biomedical optics technologies that non-invasively characterize tissue hemodynamics and translate them to a point-of-care setting
Intern Name: Emily Yu
Developing an improved transurethral resection (TUR) device for bladder tumors
Intern Name: Emily Herbert
Characterization of immunotherapy-loaded drug-eluting microspheres and gels for transarterial embolization of liver tumors
Intern Name: Mahid Qureshi
Applying artificial intelligence in medical imaging
Engineering approaches involving computational and signal to develop insights into the neural code of the human brain
Intern Name: William Noll