PREM student, Dillon Gee, was recently awarded the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Award for his presentation “Leveraging Valence of Star-like PEGs to Tune Rheology and Gelation Pathways of Dynamic Hydrogels,” based on his UT REU research. With over 6,000 attendees at the ABRCMS and 3,000 presentations, only 300 participants received awards—and Gee was one of them.

PREM students, Brandon Taylor and Jessica Peterson also presented their research at the event, which took place in Pittsburgh, PA.

Taylor presented his project, “Development of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)/Polyethyleneimine Nanocarriers for Effective Delivery of miRNA for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma Cells.”

Peterson presented her project “Agarose based hydrogels containing hyaluronic acid for chronic wound healing.”