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.
Use of MRI for Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences
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Advanced quantitative neuroimaging
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Development & Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Exoskeleton-Mediated Gait Training in Children
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Evaluating brain activity during functional tasks using noninvasive neuroimaging in healthy individuals and individuals with cerebral palsy
Dearth - 2022
Evaluation of Clinically Relevant Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering Therapeutics for Traumatic Extremity Injuries
Biofabrication of engineered 3D tissues for disease modeling and drug discovery
Development of 3D-printed mouse head holder for use in VsEPs system
Self-Collection Homebased Biosensor for Monitoring and Tracking Suspected COVID-19 Patients
Hendershot - 2022
Understanding longer-term musculoskeletal complications secondary to extremity trauma and limb loss
Optimization of Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Animation of Human Tumor-bearing Liver Segments
Atomic Force Microscopy and Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein and Lipid Rafts
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Systems biology-based approaches with bioinformatics and mass spectrometry to study kidney regulation water excretion
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Ultrafast laser microsopy to study proteins and DNA. Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging: Approaches and Applications
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Characterizing Spontaneous Movements During Early Development of Mice
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Uncertainty characterization and propagation for emerging Nuclear Medicine targeted therapy.
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Microfluidics-based devices for manipulation and analysis of cells
Programming and advanced data analytic techniques in magnetoencephalography imaging
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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
Role of innate immunity in medical device implantation and regenerative therapeutics
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
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Meta-learning based Diagnosis of Rare Cancers from MRI Images
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Measure the viscoelastic properties of zerbafish brain using frequency optical tweezers to understand how the micro -mechanical properties of tissue affect metastatic tumor outgrowth
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Cancer Studies Using a Novel 3D Printed Zebrafish Intubation Chamber for Longitudinal Imaging
Discovery of cancer cell vulnerabilities and the contribution of the cancer microenvironment to the growth of cancer cells
Development of biomedical optics technologies that non-invasively characterize tissue hemodynamics and translate them to a point-of-care setting
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Developing an improved transurethral resection (TUR) device for bladder tumors
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Development of novel drug-device combinations for chemoembolization of solid tumors and local image-guided delivery of immunotherapy
Applying artificial intelligence in medical imaging
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Engineering approaches involving computational and signal to develop insights into the neural code of the human brain