Global Health Website Creation
Seeking support in the creation of two distinct websites (1) global health project that supports work at Penn Medicine and (2) fellowship for country-to-country exchange with fellows, scholars, and campus engagement events. In addition, there are opportunities to expand the work of each of these initiatives and create and submit manuscripts about the efforts and outcomes.
Cartilage Tissue Engineering for Laryngotracheal (Windpipe) Reconstruction
Join Our Mission: Help Children Breathe Again Through Cutting-Edge Tissue Engineering
Make a real impact while building your career!
Are you ready to be part of groundbreaking research that will save lives? Our lab is on a fast-track mission to bring engineered cartilage from bench to bedside. Your work won't sit in a lab notebook—it will help infants and children with subglottic stenosis breathe without tracheostomies.
Deep Learning Medical Image Formation
Using physics-informed deep learning algorithms to improve image quality in computed tomography and cone-beam computed tomography
Domestic Violence - Intimate Partner Violence - Child Maltreatment
Domestic Violence - Intimate Partner Violence -- Child Maltreatment Research -- Social Sciences, Medicine, Public Health, Law
Dr. Prah is Director of the Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse and the Health Equity and Policy Lab (HEPL)
The Neuroscience of Cooperation: Cracking the Brain’s Code for Teamwork
Have you ever wondered how our brains decide when to cooperate, or when to put our own interests first? In my lab, we study the brain circuits that make teamwork possible. To do this, we use treeshrews, small primate-like animals with surprisingly sophisticated decision-making abilities. We train pairs of treeshrews to play a cooperation game based on game theory, where sometimes they must “insist” on their own choice and other times “accommodate” their partner’s. While they play, we record brain activity in regions like the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate, which are critical for social decision-making. By combining these behavioral tasks with cutting-edge tools like multi-electrode recordings and optogenetics, we aim to reveal how brain circuits compute fairness, trust, and cooperation. This project offers undergraduates the chance to work hands-on with behavioral training, neural recordings, and data analysis, all while tackling one of the biggest mysteries of social neuroscience.
Increasing Whole Grain Purchases Using Behavioral Science Interventions
We are currently recruiting for a study that examines whether behaviorally informed, personalized marketing strategies typically used to promote less healthy foods can be successfully applied to the promotion and purchase of whole grains. Students would help with recruitment, answering participant questions, and other tasks as they come up.
Social, Structural, and Psychological Aspects of Alzheimer's Disease
How do advances in diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease impact a person's lived experience of the disease?
C. elegans Developmental Genetics
We use genetics, genomics, and high resolution microscopy in C. elegans to study the apical extracellular matrix that coats exposed cell surfaces and the insides of tubes.
Digital pathology and AI in cancer research
AI supporting cancer research and clinical diagnostics
Integrating machine learning with magnetic resonance imaging for predicting treatment outcomes of pancreatic cancer.
Integrating machine learning (ML) with Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for predicting treatment outcomes of pancreatic cancer.