Translational Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
Part of the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at NC State University and UNC-Chapel Hill
Valli’s poster was recognized during The Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI)’s Research, Education & Innovation Summit. Her work with Melika and Ramair (from Danny Freytes’ lab) titled “Developing an Acellular Therapeutic for Intra-Articular Healing Through the Combination of Matrix-Bound Vesicles and Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes” was awarded third place in the Undergraduate Poster Award competition.
We had four of our lab’s undergrads present at the OUR (Office of Undergraduate Research) spring symposium. They presented posters related to the research that they’ve been doing in the lab the last two semesters.
Jacob was selected as one of seven BME students to present at the 2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium. His poster, titled ‘Impact of Sex Hormones on Size, Organization, and Mechanics of the Adolescent Porcine Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Potential Mechanisms Through Estrogen Receptors’ focused on his dissertation research. You can see the abstract here (click ‘Abstracts’ for 2025 then go to the top of page 70 in the pdf that opens)
The annual Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) conference was pretty nearby this year in Baltimore. Our department had a whopping 46 presenters this year, including two from TORL. Ricky had a poster and Margaret had a podium. Great job guys!
In April (yes, we’re a bit behind) Sam presented her research looking at the mechanical properties of equine SDFT at the spring Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Then, at the summer UGRS, Osa and X presented the projects that they worked on over the summer with Melika and Margaret, respectively.
We’re so proud of all of you!
TORL was well-represented at this summer’s SB3C (Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference). Jacob, Ricky, and Melika all had talks about their research, and Sam was selected as a finalist for her paper.
Plus, we saw several TORL alum – both Zack and Stephanie Cone were there (though we sadly did not get a picture with Stephanie).
BME is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024! As such, our annual retreat was an even bigger event that normal. TORL had four undergrads present their research during the poster session.
Rachel was even awarded a BME Retreat Poster award
Obviously we had to take group photos with the human-sized BME letters.
In the second photo, we were told to pose for a funny photo and apparently several of this took to mean we should hide behind the letters.
The annual Biomaterials Day retreat was recently held at NC State. We had several lab members attend, and Sam even won an award for her research looking at the relationship between macro and micro mechanical properties of the equine superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT). She was awarded the Most Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation award!
Elizabeth presented her work in our lab at the summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. She did an amazing job!
Sam and Aakarsh recently each presented their work at the annual Abrams Scholars final presentations. We’re very proud of both of them and everything they’ve accomplished in the lab.
We had a whopping 5 undergrads present at the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium! You can read about their research in the abstract book put out by the Office of Undergraduate Research, found here (this link will download a pdf. You can also find it here then scroll down to ABSTRACT BOOK. We’re so proud of all of them.
We had two undergrads present posters at the Spring OUR (Office of Undergraduate Research) symposium. Aasim presented the latest findings from his research with Zack on using gelatin in electrospinning. Chloe presented a poster highlighting her research with Jacob from this past year looking at the role of estrogen in fibroblasts. Great job guys!
Andre and Aasim did a great job showing off their hard work at the NCState OUR summer research symposium today. We’ve loved having them around the lab this summer!
Lauryn was recently awarded one of the inaugural McKay Orthopaedic Research Conference Grant to attend the virtual Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) conference. We’re so honored to have such an exceptional undergrad in our lab!
Cam presented her work as part of the CMI (Comparative Medicine Institute)’s SIRI (Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative) program. As is the 2020 normal, the group photo is a zoom screenshot. Cam, Zack, and Matt are circled below (and sorry we’re very bad at drawing circles with a mouse).
