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2026 BESIP Projects

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Staff photo of Manu Platt
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.  

Monte Carlo Simulation of a Collimator-less SPECT Imaging Device with Artificial Intelligence Image Reconstruction

Exoskeleton-Mediated Gait Training in Children

EEG-based Neurofeedback in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Machine Learning Models for Predicting Human Movement from Ultrasound Imaging

Developing Novel Sensing Methods for Pediatric Exoskeletons

Therapeutic targeting of prostate cancer bone metastasis: a computational approach

Designing novel immunotherapies against castration resistant metastatic prostate cancer

Biofabrication of Engineered 3D Tissues for Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery

Advanced control of MRI hardware for imaging of the brain

Smartphone-Based LiDAR for Respiratory Gating and body motion detection during interventions |
Design of an MRI-compatible phantom for MRI- US fusion imaging in prostate cancer evaluation

Use of Phage Display Technology for Nanobody Discovery

Engineering Novel Genetically Encoded Sensors for Studying Mechanisms Involved in Substance Use Disorders

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

Characterizing Spontaneous Movements During Early Development of Mice

Artificial intelligence for image denoising and enhancement in teravoxel
microscopy datasets |
Development of deep learning models for few-shot object detection in light
microscopy

Investigating neural circuit control of eating

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

Precision Image-Guided Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy

Brain hemodynamics and capillary stall quantifications

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

Magnetic Resonance Angiography to Assess Sickle Cell Disease Mediated Carotid and Cerebral Artery Damage

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

Evaluating chondrogenesis in a dish using engineered 3D microtissues

Microfabricated PDMS Vessel Mimetics for Cancer Cell Culture

Immune responses to biomaterials in regenerative medicine and implant pathologies

Mechano-chemical regulation of drug efficacy in metastatic brain cancers

Properties of nanoconfined peptides and proteins in anodic aluminum oxide nanopores

Calibration of real time eye tracking scanners for adaptive optics

Optimization of adaptive optics image processing software and datasets