Biomedical engineering postdoctoral student receives prestigious award to support research

Hemang Patel, a postdoctoral student under the guidance of Mahendra Kavdia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, recently was featured in the Microcirculatory Society Newsletter for being awarded the 2015 Pappenheimer Postdoctoral Travel Award. The Award will help Patel present his research on endothelial dysfunction and the use of a systems biology approach to investigate temporal changes of endothelial cell gene expression related to NO, ROS and antioxidants during hyperglycemia and hydrogen peroxide stress.

"The systems approach was developed in our previous study, Patel et al. Cardiovascular Diabetology 2013, 12:142, and has created a significant amount of interest in the community as indicated by the number of times it has been accessed," reports Kavdia.