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Payton Martinez is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Program. The has given him the Integrated Data Science Fellowship Award.

What does the Integrated Data Science Fellowship recognize?

I was given the Integrated Data Science Fellowship for being a part of the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Program (IQ Biology). It recognizes interdisciplinary research mainly between computational and experimental work, which I learned through lab rotations and weekly idea exchanges.

What does your research focus on?

My main research is using focused ultrasound and microbubbles to disrupt the blood brain barrier. This technique will be used to delivery drugs more effectively in hard to reach places in the brain.Ìý

Bio

I am just starting my PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and am currently working in Professor Mark Borden's lab. I am also part of the IQ Biology Program,Ìýwhere I'm able to rotate between a few labs my first year. I'll rotate with Professor Nick Bottenus and , who is based at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and is a major collaborator with the blood brain barrier disruption project, before coming back full time to Borden's lab in the summer.ÌýI am originally from Englewood, Colorado. I moved out to Chapel Hill, North CarolinaÌýto complete my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University.Ìý