The impressive Koch Institute Public Galleries is now home to a collage of cells on micro array spots composed by Asha Patel during her PhD. [1] This prestigious honour was secured by Asha, who is among this year's nine winners selected from more than 150 candidates by a panel of judges whose expersite spans a wide range of disciplines including biology, visual arts and media production. The submissions come from the life sciences all across MIT, and the winners were chosed based both on their visual merit and for the research they depict.
Asha returns to The University of Nottingham to undertake the return phase of her EPSRC Fellowship in the summer of 2016.
[1] A. K. Patel, A.D. Celiz, D. Rajamohan, D. G. Anderson, R. Langer, M. C. Davies, M. R. Alexander, C. Denning. Discovery of a Novel Polymer for Defined Serum-Free Culture of Human Cardiomyocytes with Improved Maturity and Toxicological Sensitivity using Combinatorial Materials Microarrays. Biomaterials 61, 257 (2015)
Posted on Monday 4th April 2016