Lab News and Updates
Marissa Passes her Proposal Defense!
Marissa successfully defended her proposal defense, "Investigating Intestinal Epithelial Crosstalk with the Enteric Nervous System: First Steps in the Gut-Brain Connection" and is now a PhD Candidate!
Emily Presents at the RISE 2017 Conference
Minhal Receives Honorable Mention in the Goldwater Scholarship!
Congratulations to Minhal Ahmed for representing Northeastern University and receiving an Honorable Mention in the Goldwater Scholarship, out of over 1200 of the best and brightest students selected by universities across the US.
Emily Wins Research Grant!
Emily Ashbolt won the Alumni Research Award from the Physics Department to fund her research on Ultrasonic Stimulation of Peripheral Neurons! Congratulations!!!
David and Yang Win Undergraduate Research Awards
Congratulations to David Urick and Yang Lin for winning Northeastern University's Provost Advanced Research Grant and receiving monetary awards to fund research projects that they have designed. Great job guys!

David Successfully defends his Thesis!!
David Diaz successfully defended his these titled: A study of primary sensory neurons and Schwann cells sensitivity to visible light irradiation in vitro, and feasibility of a light inducible system in Schwann cells for neurite outgrowth enhancement in vitro. Congrats David!!
Dr. Koppes receives the 2020 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
Dr. Koppes was named the 2020 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award recipient. “[The award] is offered each year to stimulate research careers in biomedical engineering. The recipient will present the 20-minute Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Lecture and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.” Congrats Dr. Koppes!!! Award Notification: https://www.bmes.org/blog_home.asp?Display=324 […]