2020 Summer Interns

Mosaic of New York Blood Center Enterprises LFKRI 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research interns:

New York Blood Center Enterprises LFKRI 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research interns:

  • Kerry Blatney, Mentor: Francesca Vinchi, Project:  “Effect of oral formulation sucrosomial iron on macrophage phenotypic and functional plasticity”
  • Theodoros Karanikolas, Mentor: Jovvian Parakkal, Project: IgG antibody repertoire in rASP-1+ alum adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 RBD immunized mice”  
  • Alexander Kwok, Mentor: Larry Luchsinger, Project: Identification of Calpain Interacting Proteins in Normal and Myelodysplastic syndrome Hematopoietic Stem Cells
  • Jeffrey Li, Mentor: Hong Van Tieu, Project: How do we recruit participants in the age of Covid-19”
  • Daniel Nesbitt, Mentor: Larry Luchsinger Project: Estimating SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence among Rhode Island Blood Donors using Multiple Serological Assays
  • Giselle Rasquinha, Mentor: Jung Pu, Project: FD-028: A bifunctional HIV inactivator acts before host cell entry”
  • Jacob Shaz, Mentor: Yunfeng Liu, Project: “Role of hemolysis on clearance of antibody sensitized red blood cells in Sickle Cell Disease”
  • Helen Zhang, Mentor: Avital Mendelson, Project:“Imagestream analysis of bone marrow hematopoietic cells”