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Asis Lopez

I received my B.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Bioengineering with an emphasis in Rehabilitation. As an undergraduate, I conducted three years of research on medical robotics. After graduation I worked with the University of California, San Francisco collaborating with UCSF Children's Hospital Pediatric Device Consortium to create a non-implantable prototype medical device for the medical condition pectus carinatum. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration I found my passion for translational research that evidently brought me to Tulane University.

The Bioinnovation PhD Program at Tulane University promises to be a good fit as it combines my passion for translational research and business. This will help me reach my objective to make needed medical devices. At Tulane, I am conducting ultrasound research to investigate if focused and unfocused ultrasound can stimulate nerve regeneration of spinal cord axons, specifically for spinal cord injuries. The proposed therapeutic method is completely new but if successful it has high potential for clinical commercialization as a rehabilitative medical device for clinical applications.

During my spare time, I experiment with food and enjoy water sports, especially Hawaiian Outrigger Canoeing. Before moving to New Orleans, I was part of the Outrigger Santa Cruz racing team and raced against the Bay Area outrigger teams and Northern California Teams.

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