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.
Emily Ashbolt Wins Travel Grant to BMES
Congratulations to Emily Ashbolt for winning a travel grant to attend BMES from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Northeastern for her work in collaboration with Marissa Puzan and Dan Ventre on Ultrasonic Neural Stimulation!
Yang Lin’s Abstract Accepted to BMES
Congratulations to Yang Lin for having his work accepted to the BMES annual meeting in October!