Erika Wheeler
Investigation and Characterization of Sex-Based differences in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Irritable Bowel Disease are both medical conditions of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. IBS alone affects 60 to 70 million people in the United States and women are twice as likely to be diagnosed than men. Erika’s work focuses on investigating and characterizing sex-based differences in IBS and IBD patients.
Erika joined ABNEL as a bioengineering BS/MS student in January 2021. She began her master thesis in ABNEL in Fall 2021. Prior to this, she co-oped at Sanofi and Cygnal Therapeutics in their oncology department investigating and validating novel oncology targets.
Congratulations on the PhD, Dr. Tori Duback!
Tori's terrific T cells targeted tumors so effectively that today she has earned herself a PhD and the title of "Doctor". Tori joined ABNEL back in the fall of 2022 as a Chemical Engineering Industry PhD student with Sana Biotechnology. While only at Northeastern for...
Bryan Just Keeps Winning – BioEl2025 Student Talk Award
Looking for more of a challenge, ABNEL's PhD student, Bryan Schellberg, headed to Austria to attend the BioEl2025 conference. During this event, Bryan gave a talk titled "In-situ monitoring of cellular function on-chip via automated, non-invasive luminescence sensing"...