The Biomedical Engineering Research Expo is an annual event held in March to showcase work done by undergraduates and graduate students.
In 2025, more than 150 attendees checked out 30 poster presentations and 17 oral presentations. Thanks to the expo sponsors: Regeneron (Gold), VWR, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Krackeler Scientific (Silver)
First Place Award Best Undergraduate Oral Research Oral Presentation
Sydney M. Nierstedt ’26 (PIs: Gretchen J. Mahler and Cláudia N.H. Marques)
A 3D Bacterial and Bladder Epithelium Co-Culture Model of Recurrent Urinary Tract
Infections
First Place Award Best Graduate Research Oral Presentation
Fina Lu, MS ’25 (PI: Ahyeon Koh)
Hydrophilic PEG-PDMS for Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic Devices for Sweat Biomarker
Analysis
First Place Award Best Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation
Christian Capitano ’26 (PIs: Qianbin Wang and Siyuan Rao)
Quantitative Analysis of Engineered Micropores in Neural Probes for In Vivo Fluid
Delivery
Second Place Best Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation
Winny Guan Zheng ’25 (PI: Frank Lu)
Stimulated Raman Imaging for Label-Free Brain Tumor Pathology and Diagnosis
First Place Award Best Graduate Research Poster Presentation
Deanna Mazzamuto, MS ’25 (PI: Ahyeon Koh)
Biocompatibility of Fabric-Based Capacitive Pressure Sensor
Second Place Graduate Research Poster Presentation Award
Geena Boasi, PhD Candidate ’27 (MS ’23) (PIs: Kaiming Ye and Sha Jin)
Salivary Biomarker-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for the Early Detection and
Monitoring of Gingivitis and Periodontitis