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2026 BESIP Projects

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Manu O. Platt , Ph.D.
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Director, Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA Center)
 Senior Investigator, MATRICES

The BETA Center now hosts the Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP) summer program under the guidance of Dr. Manu Platt, BESIP Program Director. Engineering and science students interested in biomedical engineering research will come to the NIH campus for 10 weeks of an intensive in-person research experience allowing students to participate in cutting-edge biomedical research projects under the mentorship of world-class scientists and engineers in NIH labs.  Potential projects for BESIP interns in 2026 are listed below.  

Alter - Favelli - 2026

Exoskeleton-Mediated Gait Training in Children

Bulea – 2026

EEG-based Neurofeedback in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Bulea – Patwardhan – 2026

Machine Learning Models for Predicting Human Movement from Ultrasound Imaging

Bulea – Rubin – 2026

Developing Novel Sensing Methods for Pediatric Exoskeletons

Gudino – 2026

Advanced control of MRI hardware for imaging of the brain

Kakareka - Hernandez - 2026

Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Animation of Human and Porcine Tissue for Clinical Translation

Lutas - 2026

Investigating neural circuit control of eating

Lutas - Cheloha - 2026

Bioengineering targeted delivery of obesity drugs to understand and improve weight loss

Nita-Lazar 2026

Absolute quantification of phosphosite occupancy in the TLR pathway.
Single-cell proteomics to probe innate immune cell diversity within a population combined with targeted absolute quantification

Quang - 2026

Development of point-of-care, biomedical optics technologies to non-invasively characterize tissue hemodynamics