Duke University Research in Engineering 2022
A summer research program in Duke University's Bioengineering Department for 20 students nationwide.
DukeREP
Science: June - August 2021
For my final project, the experimental goal was to design & test an equation to quantify bradykinesia (a motor symptom of Parkinson's Disease) in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery. Using MATLAB to analyze patients’ clicking patterns on a computer mouse, I was able to identify which patients were most affected by the surgery using the formula.
What I learned in each module:
- Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels: biomaterials in artificial vascular grafts & lab grown engineered blood vessels
- Spectrometry: homemade absorption spectrometers & sample composition analysis using Python
- Parkinson's Disease & Neural Oscillations: neurobiology & data analysis using MATLAB