Summer Interns
Christina Kyriacou
Program: Biomedical Engineering
Graduating Class: 2026
Company or Institution: Worchester Polytechnic Institute NSF REU Program
Summer 2024 Internship
- I worked in the Mensah lab where I studied the relationship between two molecules, heparan sulfate and the endothelin-B receptor, in relation to the endothelial glycocalyx. This is the luminal layer that protects the cell membrane of endothelial cells, and it is extremely important to protect from different cardiovascular diseases.