This Saturday, April 14, 2018, Shreedevi Kumar will be delivering an oral presentation at the annual Society for Biomaterials conference in Atlanta, GA! Join her at 11am in the Nanomaterials section (room 204/205) for her talk, “Manganese dioxide nanoparticles protect cytokine-challenged cartilage from oxidative stress.”  

The Sharma Lab got together today to support the Alachua County Humane Society by participating in their Chipolte fundraiser! For the fundraiser, 50% of the proceeds went the Humane Society.

Congratulations to Jessica Hornyak, an undergraduate Sharma Lab member, for becoming a 2018-2019 University Scholar! University Scholars is a competitive program that funds a research project for undergraduate students. In this program, scholars work one-on-one with UF faculty, and are introduced to the exciting world of academic research. The award includes […]

Olivia Liseth, an undergraduate researcher in the Sharma Lab, presented her research on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium! This annual symposium allows undergraduate students from all disciplines across UF to present their research projects. This year, Olivia presented a poster of her work that she conducted […]

Shreedevi Kumar, a first year PhD student in the Sharma Lab, presented her work at the 7th Annual UF Biomaterials Day on February 23rd, 2018. The theme of this year’s Biomaterials Day was “Breaking Barriers in Biomaterials Research.” Shree’s work titled “Manganese dioxide nanoparticles protect cytokine-challenged cartilage from oxidative stress” […]

The Sharma Lab celebrates the end of 2017 with our BME Family at the annual Holiday Celebration.     Jahnelle and Shree take home gold in the Christmas card game – the first one to move the card to hang on the side of the table without using their hands […]

   A job well done to PhD students Shreedevi Kumar and Madison Temples who presented their work at the 2017 Pruitt Research Day! The goals of Pruitt Research Day are to recognize the research efforts of UF BME students and their faculty mentors by showcasing the diversity and growth of research pursuits in the biomedical engineering community, and […]

This Halloween, the Sharma Lab secured the “Most kid friendly” award for the second year in a row! This year’s theme, “Sharma’s Web”, is a spin-off of the classic story “Charolette’s Web”. The idea came from Jessica Hornyak, an undergraduate in the lab. The farm included Isaac (Charolette), Jahnelle (the […]

The Sharma Lab celebrates the recent accomplishments of lab mates Shree and Olivia!   Olivia Liseth, an undergraduate Sharma Lab researcher, was recently awarded the Gerald and Elaine L. Gibson Scholarship, a $1000 award from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Shreedevi Kumar started as an MS student in the […]

Dr. Isaac Adjei, a post-doc in the Sharma Lab, was awarded the “2017 Postdoctoral Associate Excellence Award” yesterday at the UF BME Fall Welcome event. This is the first time in UF BME’s history that a post-doc is being recognized in the BME Departmental Excellence Awards. The postdoctoral Associate Excellence […]