BIOL Major Sarah Sanchez Hurtado is First SSU Student to Receive STEM-NET Award!
Congratulations to Biology major Sarah Sanchez Hurtado who has been awarded the CSU STEM-NET Student Summer Research Program grant for summer 2025! Sarah is a member of Dr. Lisa Hua's Lab team and the first SSU student to receive this prestigious award!
The title of Sarah's award-winning research is "Testing of Endothelial Cell Identity with a CD31/PECAM Marker for Human Adult Aortic Endothelial Cells That Have Lost Mitotic Antipairing".
From SSU Noma News: Sarah's focus "...is on recent findings from Dr. Hua’s lab about chromosome organization in human vascular cells. Her research will test whether adult human aortic endothelial cells that lose a specific chromosome arrangement, known as mitotic antipairing, retain their identity as endothelial cells. This work could have important implications for understanding age-related vascular changes and disease. "
For more information, please contact Dr. Lisa Hua [email protected].
Photo Credit: Brennan Sparks, Alyssa Stadie