Pirsadeh was quite impressed with the caliber of the applicants. Reading through the students submissions. We read through like tons of essays, like I think it took us like a couple weeks just to get through everybody’s. We got like 140, 50 applicants that came in. I emailed I think counselors from over like 20, 25 different high schools in like a 50-mile radius. I was like, I would’ve killed for a program like this, you know, and we created the website, you know, put it out. And I was born and raised in Irvine, also went to University High School. Kheradvar had this, you know, great grant, great idea behind it and they were just like, you know, let’s get this thing going. Yeah, we kind of just like helped get the program off its feet. Ida Persadeh, a UCI graduate who majored in biomedical engineering and pre-med helped organize the outreach program. So hopefully make them excited to go to this route. So, you know, we, we give them some glimpse of our research. They learn how to work with laser systems. Like they get familiar to the state-of-the-art research, and also they learn some skills like for example, cardiac segmentation. So they, they would see different aspect of STEM they are here in our lab and they see exactly what we are working on. So that’s kind of the big project.Īnother part of the initiative is an outreach program to open laboratory doors on the two institutions’, campuses to expose some early pre-career scientists to the world of cardiovascular research.Ī component of that project is the outreach to involve the high school students to kind of learn about these activities that we are doing, to learn skills. So we’re looking into the chicken embryo’s heart and trying to look into and characterize the forces that are developed in these hearts at different stages of development and try to correlate those and associate those with the genetics and epigenetics. The theme of the grant is to look into the congenital heart disease and how these diseases are developing at the embryonic stages. Sandra Rugonyi at Oregon Health and Science University. Kheradvar is co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation funded project to study heart disease with hopes of finding a path toward preventative measures and possible cures. For this episode, we visited the laboratory of Arash Kheradvar, UCI Professor of biomedical engineering. For further information about anti-discrimination laws and regulations, or to contact the Office for Civil rights in the U.S.To get the latest episodes of the UCI Podcast delivered automatically, subscribe at:Īpple Podcasts – Google Podcasts – Stitcher – Spotify PODCAST TRANSCRIPTįrom the University of California Irvine. District Board of Education Policies can be found of the District’s website and/or available in the District’s Central Office at 951 West College, Troy, Missouri 63379. The District’s policy and procedures detailing the District’s Prohibition Against Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation are set forth in the Board of Education Policy & Regulation 1300. The following have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: District Compliance Officers: Equal Opportunity Employment Director of Human resources, Central Office (636)462-5194 American with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504 Director of Student Services, Central Office (636)462-4981 Title IX: Director of Human Resources (Staff), Central Office (636)462-5194 Director of Student Services (Students), Central Office (636)462-4981 Homeless Students: Director of Student Services, Central Office (636)462-4981. The District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, disability, age, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by the law in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.
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