Dillon Lue, second-year BME student, and Zhiwen Xu, first-year Biology student were awarded the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. This is an award given to only 40 undergraduate students around the university every year. Dillon and Zhiwen join Lisa, Rita, and Ngozi as the latest Harrison Awardees. Congratulations to all of them.
Lab members celebrated a successful 2019.
Noah Perry, who graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and Yonathan Aberra, who graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of California Irvine, joined the lab as PhD students.
Team Dominant Alleles decked in “genes” ready to take on the other teams in the annual BME Tug of War.
Civelek Lab is the undisputed champion of the 2019 Systems Biology Club Volleyball Tournament
Civelek Lab has been awarded a three-year Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association. The title of the award is “Genetic Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Gene Expression.”
Jewel and Lisa graduated with a degree in Biology and Biomedical Engineering, respectively. Jewel will be attending a PREP program at the University of Georgia and Lisa will do a design-focused Biomedical Engineering MS program at UVA.
Mete was awarded the “Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year” by the UVA Office of Undergraduate Research. He was nominated for this award by Lisa, Ngozi, and Rita. See the news about this award.
