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Progress Report 4 (4/3)
Apr. 3, 2019—This week, we met with Dr. Houghton to discuss fabrication options for our prototype. Some of these options include purchasing a 1/8″ thick lead film to coat our ABS plastic model and molding and casting a lead-bismuth alloy with a silicon mold. Additionally, we received another quote to machine our device body from Guanxi Chentian...
Progress Report 3 (3/25)
Mar. 25, 2019—Since our last progress report, our team has transitioned projects from using CRISPR to control and prevent HIV to designing an X-ray localization device for radiation oncology therapy. We are very excited to be working with a new advisor, Dr. Jacob Houghton. Dr. Houghton is a Professor in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt...
Progress Report 2 (2/9)
Feb. 9, 2019—Our team has had limit progress due to complications with sponsor involvement. Our design project will likely need to proceed in a different direction. We are looking forward to discussing opportunities for a new project. We have arranged a meeting with Dr. Kalams in the VUMC Department of Infectious Diseases to determine possibilities for a...
Progress Report (1/24)
Jan. 24, 2019—January 24, 2019 We are excited to hit the ground running with our project this semester. To date, our team has completed several important steps. We have done background research to better understand HIV, CRISPR gene editing, and methods for evaluating the efficacy of CRISPR. We held a meeting with our sponsor, Wyatt, to learn about...