Assistant Professor email
Shelby 831
Research and Teaching Interests: Glycans, brain disorders, central nervous system, biomaterials
Office Hours: By appointment
Education:
- B.Tech., College of Engineering and Technology, India
- M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
- Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Galway, Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering
- Post-Doc, Duke University
Dr. Juhi Samal will join the faculty in January 2024 from Duke University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Segura Lab. Her research focusses on the development of biomaterial-based interventions for central nervous system (CNS) disorders with a special focus on tissue glycosylation in the CNS. Her research interests are exploring the modulation of tissue glycosylation in acute and chronic CNS disorders and developing biomaterial therapies to tune the glycan signature towards a pro-regenerative response. Her long-term research goals are to utilize these biomaterial-engineering strategies to target immune cell glycosylation for advanced therapeutics by implementing emergent concepts to regulate the cellular glycosylation.
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Academic Distinctions and Professional Societies
Academic Distinctions
- CBTE Postdoctoral Achievement Award, Duke University 2023
- Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting travel grant, Duke University 2023
- Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting travel grant, Duke University 2022
- Registration award for Gordon Research Seminar in CNS injury and repair, Oxnard, USA 2022
- Julia Polak European Doctoral Award for best graduate thesis and overall performance in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering 2021
- Registration award for Gordon Research Conference at Signal Transduction and Extracellular Matrix, Gordon Research Conference, Andover, NH, USA 2018
- Student co-chair at Matrix Biology Ireland 2017
- Best Rapid-fire Presentation Award in Matrix Biology Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 2017
- Best Oral Presentation Award amongst over 400 podium presentations in 27th European Conference on Biomaterials (ESB), Krakow, Poland 2015
- Awardee of NSF Travel Grant for 2015 TERMIS World Congress, Boston, USA 2015
- Student co-chair at TERMIS World and European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) annual congress 2015
- DAAD fellowship for exchange research in RWTH, Aachen 2013
- University gold medalist in B.Tech (Biotechnology) in Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) amongst 101 constituent and affiliated colleges 2011
- Academic Excellence (2007-11) award for outstanding performance in B.Tech in College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India 2011
- Best achievement award in B.Tech in College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India 2011
Professional societies
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
- American Heart Association (AHA)
- Society of Biomaterials (SFB)
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