Randall Outstanding Undergrad Research Awards Recognize Innovation
The Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program recognizes the best research activity conducted by undergraduate students at The University of Alabama. Read more
Dr. Shreyas S. Rao
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dr. Shreyas Rao’s research interests include biomaterials, cell-material interactions, tumor microenvironment and drug resistance. His research group is designing three-dimensional biomaterial scaffolds (e.g., hydrogel scaffolds, microporous scaffolds) as tools to mimic features of tissues that could serve as platforms for elucidating physiologically relevant cellular behaviors, drug screening and discovery, as well as mechanisms of drug… Read more about Dr. Shreyas S. Rao
In The News: In the lab: University of Alabama students help inspire next wave of scientists
Akshay Narkhede routinely prepares polymeric biomaterials during lab work in the Science and Engineering Complex at the University of Alabama. Narkhede, a doctoral student in chemical and biological engineering, uses these hydrogels to mimic the mechanical aspects of human tissue to study how cancer cells behave in human or clinical settings. Read more
Sources: Alabama News Center, Yellowhammer News
In the Lab: UA Students Help Inspire Next Wave of Scientists
Akshay Narkhede has other research foci in Rao’s lab, but on this day, he’s focused on duplicating hydrogels to demonstrate to several young, curious shadows: high school seniors in a day-long immersion of hands-on lab experiments at UA. Read more
Researcher Wins NSF Award to Study Dormancy in Metastatic Cancer
With funding from a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a pioneering bioengineering project at The University of Alabama will engineer environments that mimic conditions in the brain to gain insight into this process in metastatic breast cancer. Read more
Winners in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Conference
The conference is a premier annual event, giving undergraduates the chance to highlight their research or creative activity. Read more
In The News: New breast cancer research launches at UA
The University of Alabama is launching new breast cancer research focusing on metastasized cells that are active or asleep in the brain. They’ve managed to create a mock brain, testing it in environments to see how the cells react. Researchers hope the study will help them come up with more effective… Read more
Sources: Fox 6 (Birmingham), NBC 12 (Montgomery), ABC 9 (Columbus, Georgia)
In The News: High School students get to work with UA researchers
A few local high school students got the chance to work right alongside top researchers at the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA’s scientist for a day event. Read more
Sources: WVUA (Tuscaloosa)
