We are very excited to extend a warm welcome to our newest undergraduate researchers: Genesis Cely (BME), Mithun Makam (BMB), and Sanaya Tonsekar (Biology). They are all sophomores at Boston University.

Prof. Pratt presented at the 10th annual AACR Special Conference on Pancreatic Cancer in the plenary session on Early Detection and Interception of Precursor Lesions. Her talk was entitled “Multimodal tools for noninvasive cancer monitoring.

We are excited to host three new rotation students in the Pratt Lab. Welcome to Victoria Lozano Escarra (BS Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Liz Medvedeva (BS Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh), and Ted Rock (BS Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh).

Prof. Pratt is one of seven early-career recipients recognized by the foundation for innovative research on critical areas in neuroscience, cancer, immunology, and pain. Prof. Pratt is the first ever recipient from Boston University in the award’s 48-year history.

Congratulations to Colin Skeen and Maren Eltze on their successful completion of the BME Department’s Prospectus Defense! The topics discussed in their seminars have been presented at: C Skeen, P Sitaram, J Sexton, S Tsai, ED Pratt, “Optimization and Expansion of Digital PCR Multiplexing for Rare Mutation Detection,” in Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting (BMES), Seattle, WA, 2023.