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Sophia LeMaire
BACKGROUND
OTHER INTERESTS
– cardiovascular disease
– minimally invasive surgery
– medical technology/robotics
RESEARCH
Summer 2016
National Institutes of Health – National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda MD
• Summer Internship Program Trainee
• Principal Investigator: Mark Knepper, M.D.
• Used aggregated data and Bayes theorem to predict which phosphatases are most likely to be involved in regulation of the pore protein, aquaporin-2. Created a web page for the lab that allows our database data to be downloaded by other researchers, and presented poster on this project at the Americal Physiological Society dmvCAPS meeting, September 2016.
2012 – 2014
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
• Technical Research Assistant
• Principal Investigator: Petr Jarolim, M.D., Ph.D.
• Programmed and operated a large TECAN Robotic Testing System that performed ELISA tests for clinical trials and original research about cardiovascular disease biomarkers. Reprogrammed the robot to increase the maximum throughput from four plates per day to twelve plates per day, and created a template on which to base future programs. Organized and consolidated existing results files and created electronic file scheme to organize future results. Contributed preliminary statistics and result analysis to publication in JACC – Heart Failure.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2015 – present
Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC
• Doctorate of Medicine, Anticipated 2019
2014 – 2015
Georgetown University, Washington DC
• Master of Science, Physiology and Biophysics
• Capstone paper: “Vitamin D and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Physiological Basis for the Sensitivity of Vitamin D Levels to the Failing Kidney”
• Advisor: Susan Mulroney, Ph.D.
2007 – 2011
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
• Minor: Engineering Biology
• Minor: Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Senior thesis: “A Study on Reducing the Effects of Mechanical Stress on Erythrocytes During Cardiopulmonary Bypass, and the Physiological Response to Mechanical Perfusion”
• Advisor: Alexander Smits, Ph.D.