Robert Joseph Lutz

The NIBIB-sponsored Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP) is for undergraduate biomedical engineering students who have completed their junior year of college. The 10-week program, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Lutz, BESIP Program Director, allows rising senior bioengineering students to participate in cutting-edge biomedical research projects under the mentorship of world-class scientists in NIH laboratories in Bethesda, MD.
Automation of radioactive cell labeling using microfluidic acoustophoresis
Augmented Reality Interactive Enhancements for Scientific Data Visualization and Manipulation
Evaluating brain activity during functional tasks using noninvasive neuroimaging in healthy individuals and individuals with cerebral palsy
The molecular and cellular effects of Therapeutic and Focused Ultrasound on tissue microenvironment
Self-Collection Homebased Biosensor for Monitoring and Tracking Suspected COVID-19 Patients
Optimization of Prolonged Normothermic Ex Vivo Animation of Human Tumor-bearing Liver Segments
Atomic Force Microscopy and Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein and Lipid Rafts
Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods to Predict Subcellular Locations of Proteins
Ultrafast laser microscopy to study proteins and DNA. Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging: Approaches and Applications
Genetic Engineering of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells with CRISPR-Cas9: The Role of Innate Immunity
Characterizing Spontaneous Movements During Early Development of Mice
Uncertainty characterization and propagation for emerging Nuclear Medicine targeted therapy
Magnetic Resonance Angiography to Assess Sickle Cell Disease Mediated Carotid and Cerebral Artery Damage
Use of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and mathematical modeling to understand the mechanobiology of cells and tissue
Microfabricated PDMS Vessel Mimetics for Cancer Cell Culture
Deciphering the chemo-mechanical properties of myosin-6 using scattering and fluorescence single molecule techniques
Video Monitoring System for Automated Detection of Pain- and Itch- Related Behaviors in Mice
Deep learning to analyze anasarca in patients with major organ failure or cancer
Project #1 – Identifying Bone Metastasis in CT scans
Project #2 - Quantification of Renal Structural Findings on CT/MRI
Measure the viscoelastic properties of zerbafish brain using frequency optical tweezers to understand how the micro -mechanical properties of tissue affect metastatic tumor outgrowth
Cancer Studies Using a Novel 3D Printed Zebrafish Intubation Chamber for Longitudinal Imaging
Development of biomedical optics technologies that non-invasively characterize tissue hemodynamics and translate them to a point-of-care setting
Developing an improved transurethral resection (TUR) device for bladder tumors
Characterization of immunotherapy-loaded drug-eluting microspheres and gels for transarterial embolization of liver tumors
Engineering approaches involving computational and signal to develop insights into the neural code of the human brain