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Hundreds of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to share their research at the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI) Poster Forum on April 5-7.\u00a0The event allows students to showcase their work and gain skills to help communicate their work to the general public. The three-day event featured 240 student projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hundreds of students presented at 18th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry poster forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FoCI Printed Poster Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3rd<\/sup>\u00a0place: \u201cAI Prediction of Novel Autism Risk Genes by Genomic Data Mining\u201d
Mentor: Liangjiang Wang, genetics and biochemistry
Students: Dany Rizkalla and Baylie Sisk, biochemistry; Snehal Shah, nursing; Tanner Street, chemical engineering
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clemson Student Research Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st<\/sup>\u00a0place: \u201cPeptide Based Nanoplatform for Cas9\/gRNA Ribonucleoprotein Cellular Delivery and Gene Editing?\u201d
Mentors: Angela Alexander, bioengineering; Jessica Larsen, chemical and biomolecular engineering
Students: Joey Lavalla and Alyson Schwartz, bioengineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about any of the projects presented at FoCI and the Clemson Student Research Forum, visit the\u00a0digital program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to share their research at the 18th\u00a0annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI) Poster Forum on April 5-7.\u00a0The event allows students to showcase their work and gain skills to help communicate their work to the general public. The three-day event featured 240 student projects. FoCI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47087],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors-awards"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":913,"date":"2022-12-16T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=913"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:53:58","slug":"alba-rubio-celebrates-3-early-career-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/12\/16\/alba-rubio-celebrates-3-early-career-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Alba-Rubio Celebrates 3 Early Career Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ana C. Alba-Rubio specializes in designing and synthesizing catalysts, which are materials that speed chemical reactions.\u00a0Some of her more recent work has focused on turning carbon dioxide into alcohol that could be used as fuel. The idea is to create a closed system so that carbon dioxide can be recycled instead of being released into the atmosphere, which would contribute to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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* Early Career Fellow for the class of 2023 by the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* A 2022 Emerging Investigator by the Royal Society of Chemistry\u2019s Journal of Catalysis Science & Technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* A 2022 Energy and Fuels Rising Star by Energy & Fuels, a publication of ACS.\u00a0
<\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ana C. Alba-Rubio specializes in designing and synthesizing catalysts, which are materials that speed chemical reactions.\u00a0Some of her more recent work has focused on turning carbon dioxide into alcohol that could be used as fuel. The idea is to create a closed system so that carbon dioxide can be recycled instead of being released into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47087],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors-awards"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":908,"date":"2022-08-23T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=908"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:05:01","slug":"clemson-university-researchers-help-personalized-medicine-take-a-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/08\/23\/clemson-university-researchers-help-personalized-medicine-take-a-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson University researchers help personalized medicine take a step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clemson University researchers are helping lay the groundwork for computer simulations that could eventually be used to match cancer patients with the medicine that will help them get well.<\/p>\n

A team of 11 researchers that included six from Clemson recently reported on its work in the journal Nature Communications. The research is a step forward for personalized medicine, helping raise hopes that clinicians will one day be able to plug patients\u2019 data into a computer model to find the best possible medicine for each individual.<\/p>\n

The paper\u2019s authors built on previous work to develop a new way of creating and altering mechanistic models that bring together large datasets with minimal computer coding.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Marc Birtwistle, left, and Cemal Erdem are corresponding authors on a recent paper that helps advance personalized medicine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Cemal Erdem, a postdoctoral fellow in Clemson\u2019s\u00a0Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/a>, said the paper will be of most interest to other researchers, especially those at pharmaceutical companies and those studying computational modeling or signaling networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact of this paper is that we are trying to make it much, much easier to create these types of models,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have this open-source tool now, with the code available on the internet. Researchers can take this code, create their own models and run simulations on their desktop computers or supercomputers.\u201d<\/p>\n

That code can be accessed\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Marc Birtwistle<\/a>, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Clemson, said his overarching goal in building models is to match drugs to patients. He said that his work is aimed at helping medical researchers answer design questions, similar to how an airplane manufacturer would run computer models of airplane designs before building an actual airplane.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedicine and pharma don\u2019t have those types of design tools because they don\u2019t exist yet,\u201d Birtwistle said. \u201cIn a broad sense, that\u2019s why this kind of work can be impactful. We\u2019re trying to build that foundation so that those sorts of simulation models could help clinicians make decisions about patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team reported its findings in a paper titled,\u00a0\u201cA scalable, open-source implementation of a large-scale mechanistic model for single cell proliferation and death signaling.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis work forms a foundational recipe for increased mechanistic model-based data integration on a single-cell level, an important building block for clinically-predictive mechanistic models,\u201d researchers wrote in the abstract.<\/p>\n

Most published mechanistic models are small in scale and limited in their abilities, and it can be a struggle to incorporate multiple datasets, researchers wrote. Large-scale models \u201ccan provide a more extensive representation of cellular interactions and are thus well-poised for data integration that complement shortcomings of machine learning approaches,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Birtwistle said that computational biology researchers now have a way to very easily build on the team\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way the model is programmed and built is very simple and easy to use,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore, it was very difficult and almost inaccessible, but now it\u2019s accessible. I think we\u2019re going to be able to recruit much more of a research community into building these sorts of approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aurore Amrit, a fifth year pharmacy student at the University of Paris, was able to start running a model within days of starting her work as an exchange student in Birtwistle\u2019s lab. Before the team developed its new system, it took a postdoctoral researcher six months to do the same work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI added some models for anti-cancer drugs,\u201d Amrit said. \u201cIt\u2019s very straightforward.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Bruce<\/a>, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, congratulated the team on publishing its work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis collaborative, multidisciplinary research helps keep Clemson at the forefront of health innovation,\u201d Bruce said. \u201cThanks to the team\u2019s work, the research community is better positioned to answer one of medicine\u2019s most challenging questions\u2013 how to treat cancer as painlessly and effectively as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corresponding authors on the paper were Erdem and Birtwistle. Co-authors from Clemson also included: Arnab Mutsuddy, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Ethan M. Bensman, who was an undergraduate in the School of Computing at the time of the research; William B. Dodd, an undergraduate in Clemson\u2019s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Alex Feltus, a professor in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry.<\/p>\n

Co-authors from other institutions were: Michael M. Saint-Antoine of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Delaware; Mehdi Bouhaddou, of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco; Robert C. Blake of the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Sean M. Gross and Laura M. Heiser of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clemson University researchers are helping lay the groundwork for computer simulations that could eventually be used to match cancer patients with the medicine that will help them get well. A team of 11 researchers that included six from Clemson recently reported on its work in the journal Nature Communications. The research is a step forward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":904,"date":"2022-08-23T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=904"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:05:06","slug":"catalysis-for-sustainable-energy-is-fertilizing-student-growths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/08\/23\/catalysis-for-sustainable-energy-is-fertilizing-student-growths\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalysis for Sustainable Energy is Fertilizing Student Growths"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
Graduate and undergraduate students showcase their teamwork at the Annual Research Forum of Creative Inquiry at Clemson University.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Clemson students team up with other college students from South Carolina in 10-week summer research.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

In Dr. Ming Yang\u2019s group, the current research projects in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to value-added products through thermal and electrocatalysis are sponsored by NSF, NASA, and ACS. These research projects have become a fertile platform for graduate and undergraduate students to pursue their individual developments and to serve our community. In the past 2021-22 academic year, student researchers from Yang Lab received eleven awards from Clemson University and external organizations to elevate their research outcomes. These include the Undergraduate Research Awards of Clemson University to John Yeager and Nicolas Glisson, the Palmetto Academy Research Awards to Bridget Bruce and William Howl, the Undergraduate Research Award by NASA EPSCoR for Julia Wood, Graduate Student Travel Awards of Clemson University for Ewa Chukwu, Zehua Jin, and Alexander Adogwa, the Kokes\u2019 Award by North American Catalysis Society for Ewa Chukwu,\u00a0 1st<\/sup> Place Presentation at the Annual Postdoctoral Symposium of Clemson University for Dr. Manjeet Chhetri, and Advancing Science Grant by NOBCCHE for Ewa Chukwu. Congratulations to the team!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Dr. Ming Yang\u2019s group, the current research projects in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to value-added products through thermal and electrocatalysis are sponsored by NSF, NASA, and ACS. These research projects have become a fertile platform for graduate and undergraduate students to pursue their individual developments and to serve our community. In the past 2021-22 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":893,"date":"2022-06-06T13:53:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=893"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:05:13","slug":"ph-d-student-missoury-lytle-helps-bring-women-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/06\/06\/ph-d-student-missoury-lytle-helps-bring-women-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. student Missoury Lytle helps bring women together"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Missoury Lytle is ending her second year of Ph.D. studies on a high note, receiving an award that recognizes her advocacy for women at Clemson University. She won an Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Women in the graduate category from the Clemson University Commission on Women.<\/p>\n

Missoury received her Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering under the advisement of Dr. Eric Davis of Clemson. Missoury\u2019s research focuses on making polymer membranes for water purification and drug delivery.<\/p>\n

Missoury co-founded the Clemson chapter of Women in Chemical Engineering, co-chaired the organizing committee for the 2022 Women\u2019s Celebration Month and led an effort to provide free menstrual products to women in Earle Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really nice to be acknowledged, but I get help from a lot of people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Missoury said Dr. Davis connected her to Women in Chemical Engineering, a sub-organization of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Women in Chemical Engineering has partner organizations at several universities across the country, and Missoury\u2019s efforts helped bring a student chapter to Clemson. \u201cAs part of a lab group that is mostly women, it seemed like the perfect opportunity,\u201d Missoury said. \u201cWe wanted to make sure that non-chemical engineers and non- women were also partaking in the advocacy. It was a very good idea, and I was glad that our advisor brought it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In her free time, Missoury enjoys playing competitive disc golf, and her advocacy for women extends to the sport. Men far outnumbered women at the recent 2022 College Disc Golf Championship in Marion, North Carolina, she said. \u201cIt was really cool hanging out with women in that context, while also receiving this award, because we were all lifting each other up as we\u2019re competing against each other,\u201d Missoury said.<\/p>\n

Not only did Missoury receive the award from the Comission on Women that acknowledge her drive to support women, but she also received the Darnall and Susan Boyd Fellowship for her doctoral studies. The Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation, Inc. works to support passionate students as they earn degrees in STEM fields so they may go on to successful careers.\u00a0Missoury\u00a0was nominated for her work in the Clemson community to support her peers. Her leadership as the President of Women in Chemical Engineering and Director of the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee in the Graduate Student Government does not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

After receiving her Ph.D., Missoury would like to teach at the undergraduate level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missoury Lytle is ending her second year of Ph.D. studies on a high note, receiving an award that recognizes her advocacy for women at Clemson University. She won an Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Women in the graduate category from the Clemson University Commission on Women. Missoury received her Bachelor of Science in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64450],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":890,"date":"2022-06-06T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=890"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:05:20","slug":"model-student-ricardo-garcia-carcamo-takes-a-different-path-than-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/06\/06\/model-student-ricardo-garcia-carcamo-takes-a-different-path-than-most\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Model\u2019 student Ricardo Garc\u00eda C\u00e1rcamo takes a different path than most"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You might call Ricardo Garc\u00eda C\u00e1rcamo of Clemson University a \u201cmodel\u201d student.<\/p>\n

Not only is Ricardo good at what he does, but he also works exclusively with computer models.<\/p>\n

Ricardo is a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Getman, the Murdoch Family Endowed Associate Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.<\/p>\n

The students in her lab specialize in creating sophisticated models of chemical reactions to lay the groundwork for more efficient, more effective and less expensive catalysts.<\/p>\n

While the Hollywood idea of research may involve test tubes and bubbling chemicals, the students in Dr. Getman\u2019s lab do all their work on computers. Ricardo focuses on how water influences catalytic reactions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of different,\u201d he said. \u201cMost researchers are experimentalists, and they have a lab. My office is my lab.\u201d
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Ricardo received his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from El Salvador\u2019s Universidad Centroamericana Jos\u00e9 Sime\u00f3n Ca\u00f1as.<\/p>\n

He started his career as a chemical engineer at a sugar factory. While working there, a friend who had received a Ph.D. from Clemson and had returned to El Salvador told Ricardo he would be a good fit for the chemical and biomolecular engineering Ph.D. program at Clemson.<\/p>\n

Ricardo is now nearly three years into the program. He said his experience has changed how he approaches research, helping him see the big picture.<\/p>\n

Dr. Getman has taught him to focus his ideas, follow a research plan and teach.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is passionate about students,\u201d Ricardo said. \u201cShe tries to adapt herself to every student\u2019s style.\u201d<\/p>\n

His proudest moment as a Tiger so far was passing his oral qualifier, an exam doctoral students take to determine if they are prepared for a Ph.D. program.<\/p>\n

The Getman lab, he said, is a supportive environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all in the lab most of the time, so we can chat, and we can help each other,\u201d Ricardo said. \u201cWe stick together for a good part of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ricardo is on track to graduate in about two years. He said he liked the fast pace of industry but is open to other opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might call Ricardo Garc\u00eda C\u00e1rcamo of Clemson University a \u201cmodel\u201d student. Not only is Ricardo good at what he does, but he also works exclusively with computer models. Ricardo is a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Rachel Getman, the Murdoch Family Endowed Associate Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. The students in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64450],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":888,"date":"2022-06-06T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=888"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:04:55","slug":"ana-alba-rubio-received-nsf-grant-to-aid-in-the-detection-of-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/06\/06\/ana-alba-rubio-received-nsf-grant-to-aid-in-the-detection-of-cancer-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Alba-Rubio received NSF grant to aid in the detection of cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ana Alba-Rubio received an NSF grant of $250,000 to fund research to continue the development of a sensor that will aid in the detection of cancer.<\/p>\n

Hydroxyl free radicals are found in the human body, but an excess of them can damage the cells resulting in serious health issues, including cancer, Parkinson\u2019s, and Alzheimer\u2019s diseases. Therefore, these species have attracted great interest in health care and medical areas as biomarkers that might indicate the initiation and progress of these diseases.<\/p>\n

While being a faculty at the University of Toledo, Dr.\u00a0Alba-Rubio, together with Dr. Dong-Shik Kim and Dr. Surachet Duanghathaipornsuk, developed a sensor for the in situ real-time detection of hydroxyl free radicals which was considered challenging due to the extreme reactivity and short lifetime of these species. Inspired by their findings, the team participated in the NSF I-Corps program which aims to\u00a0help researchers gain valuable insight into entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

After interviewing more than a hundred experts in the field, the team concluded that further development of the sensor could help surgical oncologists to easily determine the margins when removing cancerous tissue from a patient. In this regard, the team has just received a two-year Partnerships for Innovation-Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant ($250,000) from the National Science Foundation to study the viability of the sensor in partnership with pathologists and surgical oncologists. The rapid on-site detection of cancer cells in the operating room is expected to help both patients and hospitals reduce pain and economic burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ana Alba-Rubio received an NSF grant of $250,000 to fund research to continue the development of a sensor that will aid in the detection of cancer. Hydroxyl free radicals are found in the human body, but an excess of them can damage the cells resulting in serious health issues, including cancer, Parkinson\u2019s, and Alzheimer\u2019s diseases. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47087],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honors-awards"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":884,"date":"2022-06-06T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/?p=884"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:05:40","slug":"jessica-larsen-wins-governors-young-scientist-award-for-excellence-in-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/chbe\/2022\/06\/06\/jessica-larsen-wins-governors-young-scientist-award-for-excellence-in-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Larsen wins Governor\u2019s Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Henry McMaster is honoring Jessica Larsen of Clemson University with an award that recognizes the research she is conducting to better understand and treat diseases of the central nervous system.<\/p>\n

Larsen, a Dean\u2019s Assistant Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has won the 2022 Governor\u2019s Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting, almost validating in a way,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve got five Ph.D. students and 25 undergraduates, and it feels good to be recognized for all the work we\u2019re putting in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
April Heyward, South Carolina Academy of Sciences President-Elect, Jessica Larsen, ChBE Assistant Professor, and David Bruce, ChBE Department Chair, after Larsen received her award.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Larsen and her students conduct research in the field of polymeric nanotechnology. They work to develop materials that respond to diseases in the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n

The research can lead to new materials to better diagnose disease, deliver drugs and regenerate tissue, she said.<\/p>\n

The group has a special focus on GM1 gangliosidosis, an inherited disorder that progressively destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The disorder affects 1 in 100,000 to 200,000 newborns, Larsen said.<\/p>\n

David Bruce, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson, said the award underscores that Larsen is an exceptionally talented, hard-working researcher and educator.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Larsen is conducting innovative research that shows promise for easing suffering and saving lives,\u201d he said. \u201cHer work also provides opportunities for students to work on the cutting-edge of health innovation. She is highly deserving of this award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larsen joined Clemson in 2017 after receiving a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Auburn University.<\/p>\n