Current Recipients
The International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) is pleased to announce the recipients of 2024-25 IFER Graduate Fellowships for Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Science.
Zeke Benshirim
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mentor: Dr. Paola Arlotta
“Enhancing Tissue Architecture and Fidelity in Single-Lumen Human Brain Organoids Using Hydrostatic Pressure”
View DetailsKaihua (Chloe) Chen
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Mentor: Dr. James McGrath
“In vitro studies of biophysical and molecular determinants of the blood-brain barrier during sepsis and systemic inflammation”
View DetailsEunho Choi
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Deajeon, Korea
Mentor: Dr. Woojung Shin
“Application of a human colon-on-a-chip for the validation of living therapeutics to replace and reduce animal testing”
View DetailsFilipa Maria Ribeiro Soeiro de Carvalho
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Mentor: Dr. Jason Gleghorn
“Development of a novel in vitro model of the human female cervicovaginal region to investigate host-pathogen interactions”
View DetailsDowlette Alam El Din
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Mentor: Dr. Lena Smirnova
“Exploring the impact of chronic low dose domoic acid exposure on brain development and cognitive functions in 3D brain organoids”
View DetailsLunan Liu
New York University, Brooklyn, New York
Mentor: Dr. Weiqiang Chen
“Organoids-on-a-Chip Model: a Human Avatar for Patient-Specific Tumor Microenvironment Modeling and Immunotherapy Testing”
View DetailsClaudia Nguyen
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Mentor: Dr. Aparna Bhaduri
“The Role of Thalamic Afferents in Cortical Fate Specification in Fused Organoids”
View DetailsYansong (Harry) Peng
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Mentor: Dr. Esak Lee
“Bioengineered microsystems for dissecting the role of lymphatic and blood vessels in regulating tumor interstitial fluid pressure and immunity”
View DetailsEliska Rehurkova
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Mentor: Dr. Iva Sovadinová
“Stem Cell-Based Leydig Cell Models for Reprotoxicity Testing and Biomedicine Applications”
View DetailsIan Smith
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Stroka
“A spheroid angiogenic vascularization microfluidic device to replace metastasis-based mouse models”
View DetailsVikram Surendran
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Mentor: Dr. Sean Vincent Murphy
“A 3D Biomimetic Lung Organ Tissue Equivalent (OTE) Model for Fibrosis Studies and Anti-Fibrotic Drug Evaluation”
View DetailsMingzhi Xu
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Mentor: Dr. George Truskey
“An integrated microfluidic system with engineered blood vessel mimic and skeletal muscle to investigate the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and atherosclerosis”
View DetailsOur Past Recipients
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