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.
Virginia Bruno
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mentor: Dr. Jianbo Zhang
Human iPSCs and primary organoid-derived visceral pain-on-a-chip model to study Candida albicans pathogenesis in inflammatory bowel disease
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Eunho 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”
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Filipa 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”
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Dowlette 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”
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Alexis Feidler
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Mentor: James McGrath, PhD
Using iPSCs to model the combined effects of aging and genetics on the human blood-brain barrier
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Cora Ferguson
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Mentor: University of Oregon
Engineering a hormonally tunable cartilage microphysiological system to investigate the role of estrogen in inflammatory cartilage degeneration
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Yuhao (Lauren) Gao
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Mentor: Fikri Birey, PhD
Human Locus Coeruleus Organoids as a Human Cellular Model for Understanding Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
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Zixie Liang
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Mentor: Dr. Michale Mak and Dr. Stuart Campbell
Developing a Functional 3D-Bioprinted Human Cardiac Ventricle for In Situ Modeling of Cardiac Fibrosis and Animal-Free Drug Testing
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Lunan 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”
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Lucy Luo
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Mentor: Dr. Alexander Misharin
Emergence of CXCL9+/CCL13+ monocyte-derived interstitial macrophages and CD8+ T cells leads to chronic dysfunction in lung transplant recipients
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Elizabeth Marr
Tufts University, Tufts University, Massachusetts
Mentor: Juan S. Gnecco, PhD
Elucidating the mechanisms of human fertility using an organoid model of implantation
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Eliska Rehurkova
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Mentor: Dr. Iva Sovadinová
“Stem Cell-Based Leydig Cell Models for Reprotoxicity Testing and Biomedicine Applications”
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Nisan Sele
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Mentor: Fikri Birey, PhD
Uncovering Mechanisms of Human Neuronal Maturation Through In Vitro and Ex Vivo Dissection of the Subplate
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Cheick Sissoko
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Mentor: Ricardo Barrile, PhD
Microfluidic-based sensor-enabled Neurovascular unit for modeling Alzheimer’s Disease impact on the brain vasculature
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Mingzhi 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”
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